They even say that the girl had to die for the sins of the group. Throughout the episode whenever they were accussing one of the group they were sure to show them wearing their crosses.
Sorry for the rant but it's just so noticeable I can't believe I never registered it before
The 2010 surge in atheism was in response to an attempt by evangelicals to take over the education system and make factually untrue claims - namely young earth creationism. This pushback was necessary and largely successful, most of the prominent evangelical wackos became laughing stocks or were exposed as hypocrites or even criminals.
However, they couldn't leave good well enough alone and Dawkins et al set about dismantling and dismissing all community and spiritual benefits of religion. It quickly became apparent that this left them vulnerable to infection - Atheism+ infiltrated and destroyed the entire community because they had no strong beliefs or unified principles that could be used to expel them.
As they say, tradition is the solution to a problem we have forgotten.
You're on a forum dedicated to rooting out propaganda in media yet believe 2000s era anti-Christian scaremongering, curious.
The Evangelical movement of that decade has been spurned even by a lot of Evangelicals of today. Most of the leaders of that movement were faggots, frauds, and fuckwits who were commercializing faith and pushing total garbage.
They destroyed themselves more than anything, and they earned it.
It's one of the reasons a lot of the political leaders either opposed Trump, or were very hesitant to support him.
I have absolutely zero love for Evangelicals but let's not also claim that the Jon Stewart era 2000s was at all neutral towards Christian Conservatives of any stripe.
I didn't.
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While there were and are retarded Evangelicals, the idea that the hallowed halls of the public school system were under critical threat by 60 IQ, sisterfucking, Jesus-dinosaur-riding-endorsing, toothless biblethumpers is so out of pocket it's embarassing considering the site we're on. Meanwhile, the vast majority of Christian Conservatism that voiced opposition to things like gay marriage, and were told about slippery slopes, now find themselves in a position where they're actively persecuted while being completely vindicated.
You say this like it's obvious that no normal person denies geology or radioactive decay or astronomy or the existence of genes but I have encountered people in real life, whom I considered intelligent, who denied all of these things when they came in conflict with biblical story of creation (they were homeschooled). If you think this is an absurd view only held by retards, you have not talked to enough people or you have not probed the beliefs of the people you do know.
There was no shortage of like-minded people who would argue in front of the texas schoolboard that the science textbooks should be changed to exclude information about the age of the earth. I watched some of these at the time, they were very boring and cringe on both sides. Megachurches pastors and televangelists had plenty of money pouring in during their sermons about "evilution".
Overblown? Sure. Fictional? No. The "hallowed halls" as you put it are just a government office, and the government is infiltrated and manipulated by highly motivated zealots all the time - hence the situation we're in now with the gender weirdos.
I'll bet you think it was right wingers going after games in the early 90s too. Get out of here with that shit.
It was both sides. Everyone is aware of Hillary & Tipper Gore's moves on the Left, and that was predominantly because they wanted to play "family values" nonsense from the Left, while most of that was right-wing moralizing from the televangelist evangelicals.
Those guys didn't just attack video games, they attacked cartoons, they attacked rock music, they attacked metal, they attacked cursing, they attacked shock-jock radio; etc.
This was an evolution from back in the day when they were attacking rock and roll music at it's outset. They attacked betting, drinking, dancing, all sorts of silly shit.
Phil Arms lecturing about Pokemon is basically fucking legendary.
Hell I personally fucking posted HERE about how Six Days In Fallujah was originally killed by Fox News before it re-built itself, and was immediately attack by Leftists, showing just how full circle everything had come.
You ever think that perhaps those wildly Extreme Evangelicals were a fringe bunch of wackos that were getting undue attention and power because the Left wanted them front and center to make Christians/Rightwingers/White people look retarded and their "institutions" need to be torn down?
Because the fact that we spent years hearing about the Westboro Baptist Church, despite it barely reaching 3 digit membership at the time and basically consisting of one big extended family total, makes it pretty clear that was the case.
No, you see, when the media creates propaganda demonizing Gamers randomly because some Counterstrike playing autist called one of them a fag once, that's when we notice and care. When it's Christians? Well they deserve it because 20 years ago three of them pushed back publicly against the idea that putting a bunch of monkey skulls in a row immediately proves we spontaneously burst into life from inanimate matter and then graduated from being fish.
Most of these guys are just still mad their grandma or schoolteacher took away their gameboy or Pokemon cards and are still seething from it.
I lost mine too, but because we were gambling with it and I see as an adult why they did that.
Why are you presenting their position like you agree with it? I thought they were "60 IQ, sisterfucking, Jesus-dinosaur-riding-endorsing, toothless biblethumpers" propped up by the media as controlled opposition. Do you agree with the young earth creationists or are they a media invention? Or are you just shapeshifting slime?
Your reading comprehension is incredible. I thought they taught literacy in Talmudic academies?
Let me explain, since you so desperately need an explanation (because you are a gay faggot retard). Like the incel caricature, Conservative Christians were and are continually insulted and depicted as typical inbred southern bumpkins. I used that image to attempt to explain to you how stastically irrelevant yet emotionally charged depictions of a group of people can be easily utilized to personify an entire group, but you are too much of a gay faggot retard to actually comprehend the fact that you've been thoroughly mindfucked by a media apparatus that hates you and relies on your gay faggot retard opinions. If, instead of being a gay faggot retard, you used your 30IQ brain for one goddamn second, you'd be able to see the precise ways our actual enemies are eroding our society in front of our very eyes.
Instead, you act like a gay faggot retard and just buy into it because you dislike Christians and Christians are, as intended, an easy scapegoat you can blame like a gay faggot retard.
And again, since you are a retard who is simultaneously a gay fag, you can't actually read and comprehend intent from what people say, and so think I was somehow being disingenuous. I am skeptical of the current Evolutionary model. Now before you shit your adult diapers and drool over your fucking Reddit branded mousepad, understand that it does not logically follow that I am necessarily a Creationist. I'm not sure you'll be able to do this though. Because you're a gay faggot retard.
Now that you've established a criteria for being a wacko retard (young earth creationism), do a little informal poll of churches in your area to find out how many people are retarded wackos (according to you).
You can use the gallup poll format for consistency:
I didn't that was you.
I went to both Catholic and Baptist churches in the 90s/00s (long story) and was well acquainted with most people during the time such was a peak discussion. Minimal wacko was openly discussed, and the handful of times it was was struck down by the Pastor or another man in charge (because it always came from panicky women). And this was the deep dirty Swamp South, the place literally used as the stereotype of where such madness happens.
I didn't even need them to tell me to hate gays. I just saw pro-gay fluff pieces on the news about Pride Parades and learned to do it on my own.
So I've got most of a large Parish worth of anecdotal data across two denominations pointing to the opposite of what the media told me it should be, and in 2024 we've got strong evidence how often said media will lie wholecloth.
I said young earth creationism was factually incorrect. You said:
You labeled them as extreme fringe wackos picked out to make Christians look retarded. You did. But feel free to clarify your position. Is YEC retarded or not?
Yeah, I remember back when the church and evangelicals were in control of the education system and it wasn't 100% run by democrats nationwide.
Oh wait, no I don't, because that never happened in my lifetime.
Also, for how "evolution" is presented in most modern media, it might as well be creationism. Things like X-Men are fun but if they actually existed, it would be a disproof of evolution. And the common understanding of evolution is so bad that most people think X-Men scenarios are actually how it works.
I actually can't think of a single movie/show/story that uses evolution as a hook that is even close to accurate.
I literally pulled my kid out of public school.
Yeah, what a bang up job those Christians did!