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Sneak_King 4 points ago +4 / -0

I've only met one pastor who had a sufficient grasp of theology and history to deliver those messages.

I've had a pastor tell me to my face that they are cautioned against such messages because modern churches are corporations and they don't want attendance to drop.

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Sneak_King 5 points ago +5 / -0

I agree, but if your kids have never heard anyone who hates God speak, it will be shocking and possibly titillating. They'll want to know more. You should expose them to these arguments (and frame them as retarded, evil, and stupid) well before they first hear them in the wild.

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Sneak_King 12 points ago +12 / -0

Lewis should be required reading in any church.

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Sneak_King 11 points ago +11 / -0

CS Lewis, Paul's letters in the NT, and Aquinas, in order of difficulty. If you have kids, LotR can be used allegorically (sorry JRR!) to explore some ideas, though Lewis' fiction is basically purpose-built for that, and are generally easier reads (so you can use them with younger kids).

When you come to understand the 'problem of evil' is a massive, secular cope, you're on your way.

Doug Wilson is a pastor online who tackles modern issues and he is pretty accessible. He'd be more for an adult looking to dig deeper, though he also has home school material i haven't looked at yet.

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Sneak_King 15 points ago +18 / -3

American Protestantism and its consequences have been devastating to Christianity (speaking as one myself).

The way you help your children keep the faith is by teaching apologetics. When they go to college (which they probably shouldn't), if they hear any kind of new argument against God, you have failed as a parent.

Of course, teaching apologetics requires knowing apologetics, which no American does, especially the pastors.

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Sneak_King 11 points ago +11 / -0

It's not an accident.

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Sneak_King 1 point ago +1 / -0

Because Behr was butthurt Dukat was so popular and Alaimo was so charismatic. There's an awkward bit in the recent documentary where Alaimo says as much in an "is he joking or isn't he?" kind of way and Behr gets defensive.

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Sneak_King 7 points ago +7 / -0

What's the over under on them revealing Homelander is literally Satan to spite the fans, a la Gul Dukat?

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Sneak_King 32 points ago +32 / -0

"Eggs = cholesterol = bad!" started as a campaign by the LBJ administration to get people to eat less eggs so they would buy less eggs so they wouldn't notice skyrocketing inflation.

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Sneak_King 3 points ago +4 / -1

They wouldn't have let him buy if he wasn't on their team. If he wasn't before, he is now. Expect more cute gotchas, like the one dev team getting fired if they don't have a checkmark charge in place in a week, while more rootless goblins fill the ranks behind the scenes.

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Sneak_King 5 points ago +5 / -0

Veal exists because the stomach lining of a calf has necessary enzymes to covert milk to other dairy products, like yogurt and whey.

A stomach or two can get a household through a year, so veal was a delicacy out of rarity.

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Sneak_King 5 points ago +5 / -0

For the end goal of "disability rights," see the deaf 'community', where they view people who can have their disability cured as betraying their cult.

My message to the disabled: sux you're retarded. Some day, if we make it through this and return to living in family-based clans and clan-based communities, maybe someone will care. Until then...

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Sneak_King 9 points ago +9 / -0

Reminder that AI literally can't produce anything. "AI generated text" is just big auto-complete. The bot produces a few choices for the next phrase or sentence and a human chooses the best one.

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Sneak_King 1 point ago +1 / -0

I haven't heard of this. Let me know if you think of it.

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Sneak_King 25 points ago +25 / -0

Holy shit. How do I get Musk to hire me as a consultant to give weekly lectures on The Bell Curve to dangerhairs?

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Sneak_King 11 points ago +11 / -0

If beating w*men is the price we must pay for a stable, high-trust society, I'll get my belt.

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Sneak_King 3 points ago +3 / -0

Nah, it's not a sanction. Twitter is a CIA tool and they aren't about to share their toys.

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Sneak_King 12 points ago +12 / -0

Stop framing it as "evening the field." Frame it as what you actually believe.

If your response is, "on topic X, I really do believe in a marketplace of ideas!", great. The commons of your marketplace will be ruthlessly exploited. Are you ok with the worst possible position on topic X? If not, keep walking it back until you find what you're actually ok with, and there's your real position. Maybe go a bit further, even, so you can compromise back to the position you want.

I think a big weakness of boomercons is naivete. They have no interest in X, so wouldn't put in the effort to ruin it, so can't imagine anyone else doing so. That's not the same as believing in a plurality of ideologies.

Imagine Satan the devil is real and he's after you. Shape your politics to make it as difficult as possible for him to reach you and yours.

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Sneak_King 7 points ago +7 / -0

Something like 40 fucking percent of domestic produce was grown by families at the end of WWII. That they immediately stopped doing that is one of many things I've never forgive the """greatest generation""" for.

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Sneak_King 4 points ago +4 / -0

She changed her handle from Froskstein when she moved from the old country.

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