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the bible has lots of porn and violence

Utah Republicans don't like the fact pointed out.

And much of the New Testament is about a woke person of color.. someone they'd probably imprison or kill if he was alive today.

 

 

if there are book bans

The Bible is clearly pornographic.  So many places, but here's a dildo reference:  (tip of the hat to Chris)

Ezekiel 16:17

King James Bible

Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men, and didst commit whoredom with them,

New Revised Standard Version (for once following the KJV's lead)

You also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and my silver that I had given you, and made for yourself male images, and with them played the whore;

New International Version (for once being more direct, and closer to the Hebrew)

You also took the fine jewelry I gave you, the jewelry made of my gold and silver, and you made for yourself male idols and engaged in prostitution with them.

International Standard Version (hitting the nail closer to the head)

You also took your fine jewelry—including my gold and my silver that I had given you. Then you made for yourself male images and had sex with them!

 

 

life in post-roe america

When Christian fascism rules, women are mere vessels with few rights.  

Here's a look ahead.

a tip of the hat to Jeri

Here's Alexandra Petri's piece from awhile back on the subject.  It deserves a reposting

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t was hard to believe the time was running out. Maybe it would not, after all. It had been so long — nearly 49 years, with a few scares along the way — that the illusion had held, that she was a citizen, a person with rights to be respected in her own right. That not merely her life was worthy of protection, but also her ability to make choices for her own future. That she was just as good as any state legislator, and possessed certain rights they could not abridge!

Those 49 years had flown by. But when the court’s clock struck, her run would in all likelihood begin to end. She would stop being a person with autonomy over her own body that the law was bound to respect. She would go back to being a vessel that might potentially contain a person, a vessel whose rights ended once that possibility was considered.

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morality and school books

A challenge to the Bible..  

Compared with many of the books removed in places like Florida, it full of immorality by the standards of the right.  But, of course, much of the right are functionally diodes.

 

going down

The decline of white evangelical christianity.

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The group that has declined the most is at the core of the MAGA movement, the group most devoted to Christian nationalism. “White evangelical Protestants have experienced the steepest decline. As recently as 2006, white evangelical Protestants comprised nearly one-quarter of Americans (23%). By the time of Trump’s rise to power, their numbers had dipped to 16.8%,” Jones explains. “Today, white evangelical Protestants comprise only 13.6% of Americans.”

And that decline may yet accelerate, because they skew older than the population as a whole. Put differently, there are far more baby boomers in this group than Generation Z members. White evangelicals are “losing” people with each successive generation. (“White Christian subgroups have each lost approximately half their market share just across the generations who are alive today,” according to Jones.) If your business had lost half its market share, you would be panicking, too.

With those kind of numbers, the responsible thing to do would be to think about “fixing” what’s wrong by adapting to a changing market. Instead, many in this cohort have doubled down, becoming the foot soldiers in the red-hatted MAGA movement. The decline isn’t going to be reversed by angry, gray-haired folks demanding abortion bans and “don’t say gay” bills.

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It should be pointed out that a reasonably large percentage of the believers think Jesus is coming back real soon now..  undoubtely riding his T-Rex and brandishing an AR-15.

 

 

state sponsored spouse abuse in texas

At least against women.

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Mitchell’s latest project is representing a Texas man called Marcus Silva who is currently suing his ex-wife’s friends for helping her get an abortion. Silva is demanding more than $1m in damages from each of the two friends his ex-wife talked and texted with when she planned her abortion as well as the woman who provided abortion pills. He’s also planning to sue the manufacturer of the abortion pills.

What gives Silva the right to do this? Good question. Mitchell and Silva have been very creative and are testing the bounds of current abortion and homicide laws. The lawsuit begins by stating: “Under the law of Texas, a person who assists a pregnant woman in obtaining a self-managed abortion has committed the crime of murder and can be sued for wrongful death”; it then goes on to cite sections of the Texas penal code that talk about homicide but don’t mention abortion. While procuring and supplying abortion pills is prohibited in Texas, the law is clear that self-managed abortion isn’t a criminal act. Silva is basically cobbling together interpretations of various different laws to argue that his ex-wife’s friends are “murderers” who are liable for the wrongful death of the terminated fetus.

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americans like atheists more than mormons

How religious groups are viewed

 

 

Of course atheism isn't a religion, but the religious right likes to call it one.  And Mormons no longer use the label... it's strictly The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

 

 

explaining shooting stars

It must be true if it's in the book. (similar explanations for phenomena through the Abrahamic and other traditions)

a tip of fhe hat to Bjarne

 

more christian "love"

South Carolina GOP lawmakers propose a change to the criminal code.'

Lack of compassion, morality and a seventh grader's knowledge of biology seems to be their defining feature. 

a tip of the hat to Sukie

 

on science denial

A SciAm piece from a few years ago is still relevant.

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So you can see that the problem people have with science is never the actual science. People have a problem with the implications of science for their worldview and, even more important, for their ideology. When anti-intellectualism rises to the surface, it’s because there are new, urgent results coming out of the scientific community that challenge the perspective and status quo of people with power. Renewable energy is now posing a very significant threat to them. The more viable the technologies, the greater the pushback. It’s a last-ditch effort to resist change, which is why denial is at a fever pitch.

Today, although many of the objections to climate science are couched in science-y terms—it’s just a natural cycle, scientists aren’t sure, global cooling, could it be volcanoes—or even religious-y terms—God is in control—99 percent of the time, that language is just a smoke screen. If you refuse to engage these arguments and push through for even five minutes, the conversation will naturally lead to profound objections to climate change solutions.

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