There’s a large evangelical complex off I-75 in Tampa that I’ve passed by in transit occasionally for several years. I knew nothing about it but have always assumed it was grift enterprise because megachurch and because of its propensity to plaster its married couple co-pastors’ faces all over area billboards. Turns out those charitable assumptions …
Religious Nuts
The Most Selfish Motherfuckers on the Planet
Evangelicals: As Liberty University’s spring break was drawing to a close this month, Jerry Falwell Jr., its president, spoke with the physician who runs Liberty’s student health service about the rampaging coronavirus. “We’ve lost the ability to corral this thing,” Dr. Thomas W. Eppes Jr. said he told Mr. Falwell. But he did not urge …
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‘Their final, most essential command…’
The New Yorker has an article up about Trump’s visit to India, the violence that spiked while he was there and the lies both governments are telling about the events:* Two things happened in Delhi on Tuesday, and the gulf between them illustrated India’s wild, alarming swerve from normalcy. At the Presidential palace, Donald Trump …
Open Thread on Satanic Wombs
Or something like that. Someone mentioned this video in a downstairs thread. Here’s an explanation from someone who studies such things. A number of things about this are concerning. Paula White-Cain is an advisor to the President of the United States. The emphasis on evil spirits is bizarre and seems to me to indicate some …
Jesus Wept
White evangelicals are a fucking plague and scourge. Look at this fucking poll, just look at it: I guess hating LGBTQ people, the poors, liberals and city dwellers isn’t enough hate for these hateful fuckers. Their hate has no boundaries, it is as deep as it is wide. They hate individually, and when they gather …
NSFW Open Thread: Jerry Falwell Jr’s Body Is A Temple
ok. to be be clear, Jerry Falwell Jr.'s personal fitness trainer is not the same guy as Jerry Falwell Jr.'s pool attendant https://t.co/X4DfEetyvQ — Joe Sudbay (@JoeSudbay) August 27, 2019 And he is fanatical about the maintenance thereof, per Reuters: Evangelical leader and prominent Donald Trump backer Jerry Falwell Jr personally approved real estate transactions …
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Cold Grey Pre-Dawn Open Thread: Good Take / Really, Really Bad Take
I really wish people would stop feverishly speculating about how the Epstein scandal could hypothetically harm their political enemies. It feels enormously exploitative. The focus should be on the crimes committed and, more importantly, the victims. — Mangy Jay (@magi_jay) July 8, 2019 Just to be clear: of course I want justice to be served. …
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