Fries with cheese bacon and mushrooms on top
Man that sounds so good to me right now (just had a piece of too sweet pie and a chai latte, good but too much sugar).
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lisah - Jun 17, 2008 10:14:53 am PDT #3604 of 10003
Punishingly Intricate
DebetEsse - Jun 17, 2008 10:15:04 am PDT #3605 of 10003
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I have a question: a real, honest, "I seek knowledge" question:
How can a reasonable, reasonably intelligent person honestly believe that Christians are persecuted in the US (locally, even[locally being mid-upper Midwest).
It feels like surely one of us is smoking crack, but I'd really like to understand how a person could come to that conclusion, and I can't ask the person in question.
Can anyone explain this to me?
lisah - Jun 17, 2008 10:17:50 am PDT #3606 of 10003
Punishingly Intricate
I'd really like to understand how a person could come to that conclusion, and I can't ask the person in question.
Does this person say it's anything specific?
tommyrot - Jun 17, 2008 10:20:08 am PDT #3607 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Can anyone explain this to me?
Um, some Christians are being told over and over that they are?
DebetEsse - Jun 17, 2008 10:22:15 am PDT #3608 of 10003
Woe to the fucking wicked.
She cited a specific example with a friend of one of her kids who was undoubtedly being an ass (and misusing of the word "Evangelical").
More broadly, she was talking about needing to create an environment where kids feel safe to be Christan (at school).
Jesse - Jun 17, 2008 10:22:28 am PDT #3609 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
People who think the US should be a Christian theocracy probably feel persecuted because it isn't.
I don't know why ita put mushrooms on those fries.
Tamara - Jun 17, 2008 10:22:37 am PDT #3610 of 10003
You know, we could experiment and cancel football.
It's those wars on Christmas that the far right talks about every year. Funny, we still keep having Christmas.
tommyrot - Jun 17, 2008 10:23:18 am PDT #3611 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
msbelle - Jun 17, 2008 10:24:27 am PDT #3612 of 10003
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I think that it is a basic lack of understanding of what being persecuted is. I have heard people singing the refrain of "our way of life is being attacked from all sides", when what they really mean but cannot seem to grasp is that "people who disagree with us are now vocal enough and/or a large enough minority that we have to acknowledge them or adjust our lives in ways we don't want to.".
amych - Jun 17, 2008 10:28:26 am PDT #3613 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
What msbelle said. I hear the "Christians are oppressed" stuff all the time from some of the fundies I know, and it always pretty much comes down to "someone disagreed with me".