The Republican perception of what is virtuous is often significantly different from what you and I might recognise, I think.Svartalf wrote: ↑Tue Mar 08, 2022 10:35 pmSince Reagan, repubs have been making stands against virtue. period.L'Emmerdeur wrote: ↑Tue Mar 08, 2022 9:15 pmThose three brave Republicans made a stand against virtue signalling.
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Of course, since they have turned from being good christians to the twin worship of Mammon and the Devil...
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Depends on the definition of 'good Christian.' Their god may be an utter arsehole but he is supposedly all-powerful, while his chthonic adversary has always played second fiddle. Only the usual small minority of deviant Christians actually worship the latter. As for holy greed, that has been a recurring theme in the history of Christianity. Accumulating vast wealth for the greater glory of their god!
This could go in the venerable 'Problematic stuff' thread butt I do believe it is uniquely American. The heritage of the Puritan mindset has been propagated down through the couple of hundred years of American history, and lives on. To my shame, I find this incident delectable. It's so good, I am mildly suspicious of its veracity. From Salon--
'Assistant principal fired for reading students a children’s book called "I Need a New Butt!"'
This could go in the venerable 'Problematic stuff' thread butt I do believe it is uniquely American. The heritage of the Puritan mindset has been propagated down through the couple of hundred years of American history, and lives on. To my shame, I find this incident delectable. It's so good, I am mildly suspicious of its veracity. From Salon--
'Assistant principal fired for reading students a children’s book called "I Need a New Butt!"'
he assistant principal of a school in Mississippi was fired for reading what administrators thought was an inappropriate book to second graders – a concerning development amid the Republican-backed effort to purge "objectionable" books from school shelves.
The events leading up to the incident reportedly began on March 2, when Toby Price, the assistant principal of the Gary Road Elementary School in the Hinds County School District, organized a Zoom event to have a special guest read a book to a group of second graders.
When that guest did not arrive, The Washington Post reported, Price was told he could read the students a book of his own choosing. He chose "I Need a New Butt!" written by Dawn McMillan and illustrated by Ross Kinnaird.
"It's a funny, silly book," Price, 46, told the Post. "I'm a firm believer that … if kids see that books can be funny and silly, they'll hang around long enough to see all the other cool things that books can be."
By Price's account, the students found the book "hilarious" – but the same could not be said for the school's administrative staff. Fifteen minutes after the reading, Price was reportedly called into the principal's office, where he was scolded by the principal for selecting McMillan's beloved book.
"They kind of just let me have it," Price told the Post. "She said, 'Is this the kind of thing you find funny and silly? Fart and butt and bulletproof butts?' And I said, 'Yeah, I did until I walked in.'"
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the god of the Book IS an utter arsehole, but the main drive of the gospels is that we don't have to be.
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My girls loved that book!
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Anti-abortion activists invade clinic and run off with...five fetuses?
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What will they do next? Mouth to mouth resuscitation? Retrieve the souls and baptise them so they won't finish up in the place of unquenchable fire, burning sulphur, weeping and gnashing of teeth?Tero wrote: ↑Tue Apr 05, 2022 2:43 amAnti-abortion activists invade clinic and run off with...five fetuses?
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Tortilla war:
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It's unbearable. These backward criminals have doomed us.
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Two apparently racially motivated mass shootings this weekend. That's dark, America. Dark.
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Nothing to do with race, Brian Peacock. Information will come to hand soon, proving that the perpetrators were mentally unstable, and that's what motivated the shootings.Brian Peacock wrote: ↑Mon May 16, 2022 6:01 amTwo apparently racially motivated mass shootings this weekend. That's dark, America. Dark.
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Ah, of course. I forgot about that. Thoughts and prayers etc
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It's either that or Antifa doing more of their false flag operations. Qanon will pass the requisite intelligence on to Dinesh D'Souza, who will make a hard hitting documentary of it. 2000 Assassinations.
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