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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I live in the Bible belt and can tell you: the evangelical megachurches are chock full of Christian nationalists.

    Sure, there are factions in the GOP that don’t really care about religion , but the SCOTUS wouldn’t have overturned Roe if the hardcore religious zealots didn’t work for decades to get it done.

    The protesters at abortion clinics were bussed there by the churches a lot of the time; they’re not outliers here. They are the engine that runs the party here in Texas.











  • “When a cop tells you to do something, you do it. That’s it.”

    What a chode. When the constitution tells cops they need a warrant they should get one.

    The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

    Every cop there should be charged with deprivation of rights under color of law, but I won’t hold my breath.





  • That is a great point about pseudopaul. I had forgotten that this letter’s authenticity was questionable.

    However there are practically no evangelical groups who would agree with modern scholarship on the subject, so my larger point holds: they believe that Paul instructed women to be subservient and silent.

    Also, as far as I can tell, Paul was one of the ones who shifted Jesus’ prophecy about his coming kingdom from that of an imminent apocalypse to a prediction about the rise of the Christian church. While he did believe that the end of the world was near, so do a huge swath of Christians today.

    Thanks for the correction, it is appreciated.