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In the age of information, I think it's more likely that christianity and islam will continue to lose footing. There are so many churches going under in the US, I might buy one up and turn it into a strip club just for shits and giggles. Pretty dishonest to include your 2nd bullet point, but I understand the need to try to complete the analogy to the grief cycle. He never said he can't wait for Christianity to DIE! That's your addition for dramatic effect. All the other stuff, you quoted directly; why not #2?

I Wish I could make it say "Ofputin"

Seems like you're really working hard to distinguish between shedding your faith and shedding your indoctrination. But yeah, sure we can get all caught up in arbitrary definitions if you want.

I know. They're just too good!

Bold assertion. I'll wait for someone else to jump in and explain how I'm misrepresenting it, since you don't seem to be able to.

How about the claim that if you reject the indoctrination of your youth, and decide that none of this religion stuff holds water, that you've sworn allegiance to the devil? By itself, not a big deal, but then when you clarify in a later post that you're actually alleging is that swearing allegiance to the devil involves child sacrifice... If A=B and B=C, then A=C and you're alleging falsely that people who do not subscribe to your belief system have committed an actual crime (including some of us in SC), then doesn't that make you guilty of defamation of character?

Could be Marianne, too. I'm not even being snarky.

Turns out, I was there September '18 and took my buddy from Vernonia for his first tandem.

Gentlemen also don't go to Coloseum

They're so luxurious though. And my wife works for FCA, so there's a financial incentive to corporate-lease a Ram instead of a lesser truck.

I don't hate the idea, as long as there are protections in place. For instance: I would want to know that there is no data collection of any kind associated with the program. The scenario I'm thinking of would be: you stop for a couple beers at a family-friendly joint after work on your way home, you blow a .06 to start your vehicle, and the local police get a notification that there is an impaired driver in a white '20 Ram 1500 leaving Coloseum Gentleman's Club heading eastbound on 8 Mile.

They're quite busy purging voter rolls. I got purged and had to re-register, and I just voted in the 2018 blue wave. They are perfecting minority rule and insulating it for a generation.

Yeah, it's great and all, but it's too late. There's a guy at my work who loves to talk about how great Trump is, and I asked him if he was cool with the Ukraine/China thing, and he says "oh yeah, whatever it takes to win! Trump is gonna win that second term and change the rules so he can go for a third or fourth too!" He wasn't kidding. Not. One. Bit.

Yeah, especially because swearing allegiance to something is a very specific act. It literally requires saying a thing. This is the No-True-Scotsman fallacy, Ron. Do better.

I dunno...I prefer swearing my allegiance to Voldemort. He's way more interesting than any of the characters in the buybull.

Show me one moral act that a religious person can do that an atheist cannot, and I will concede that you have a point. Edit: Not trying to be combative

Yeah, it's refreshing to see a Christian who actually reads their bible instead of cherry-picking it. Reading the bible thoroughly is the most efficient method of losing faith, in my opinion. Especially if you start researching how the book was cobbled together. Pretty interesting stuff that you'll never learn in Wednesday evening bible studies. Preachers tend to avoid the bad bits.

North Korea has been a crisis since I've been alive. The current regime presides over a humanitarian nightmare, they are posturing in a way that suggests they will try to start a world war, and instead of clamping down on them and treating them as the existential threat that they are to our allies (South Korea and Japan, namely), our Cheeto-in-Chief is giving Kim photo ops and telling the world how they "fell in love." Fucking gross. And dangerous. And it's gotten worse under Herr Drumpf because now we're just turning a blind eye to the missile tests, pretending that it's not happening; this gives cover to Kim to ramp up his efforts to further fortify his stranglehold on the region. Yes, we need to intervene in Syria for myriad reasons. Assad uses chemical weapons against his own people. The Kurdish people were promised statehood by the United States, France, and Britain after the first World War under the Treaty of Sevres, which has still gone unfulfilled. They lost over 11,000 of their people assisting the United States in the fight against ISIS, where the US only lost a little more than a dozen. They have fought beside America for decades upon decades, in hopes that the United States would live up to their promises and Ferret-Hair pulls the plug and abandons them for SLAUGHTER to appease yet another authoritarian (Erdogan). When Russia annexed Crimea, President Obama lobbied to have Putin's Russia expelled from the G-8, and we backed the Ukraine's efforts to push back against pro-Russian infiltrators in their own government, much to the chagrin of folks like Manafort, Parnas, and Fruman. Don't worry though: yet again the Orange One went and fucked it all up so his buddies could get rich off of the Russian Oligarchy trying to annex the rest of the Ukraine in a tit-for-tat that included funneling Russian money illegally into Donald's pockets. The ultimate point here is that Donald tRump makes the world, and America, less safe and doesn't give a shit as long as his bank account gets bigger.

There's just so much to unpack here. And I'm only referring to the disjointed grammar and spelling. Goodness. "I love the poorly educated!" - Donald John Trump, 2016

He has the best words. Truly.

“The United States and Italy are bound together by a shared cultural and political heritage dating back thousands of years to Ancient Rome." The official White House twitter account just posted this along with the video of the press-conference wrap with Italy. Apparently, 7/4/1776 was thousands of years ago. What an embarrassment.

It would be funny if it weren't so tragic.

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Horrifying stuffski

Which is why I abhor "reality" TV. I can get into the competition-type stuff like AGT or The Voice (somewhat) because I enjoy singing. While that's a version of "reality TV" I don't see it as being on the same plane as the "drama" shows. Oh and Ninja Warrior is pretty good stuff too. Those guys and gals are beasts! My fellow Americans, though, for the most part are sucked into this bullshit. How anyone can sit through even one single episode of "The Apprentice" or "Real Housewives" or "Bachelor" is beyond me. I watched "Road Rules" and "Real World" when I was a kid. Because I thought like a kid, and acted like a kid, and watched shows that I grew out of when I was no longer a kid. About the only usefulness I get out of the bible here: When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.