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Ah, them Christianists are a wacky bunch.
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Huckabee doesnât believe in his God. He believes in about a pound worth of wood pulp and ink. His beliefs change based on his political aspirations and it is more than obvious every time he opens his mouth.
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Damn Huckster, you lost the Joe and Mike vote. It takes a lot of stupid to lose them.
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as much as I revile Jo-Sco, he had the right of it here. Basically, we got a peek under Huckabeeâs tinfoil hat, and it revealed an empty brain pan.
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im glad there is some push back after that debacle yesterday. yesterday was hard to take. just a celebration of hatred and bigotry. let alone those costumes they were wearing
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Truthiness strikes again! Too bad Jesus didnât mean what you wanted him to mean (Coupla millennia and multiple revisions later).
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Here are five beliefs that set Pentecostals apart from other Christians:
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Pentecostal followers do not believe in Trinity
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Pentecostals believe in faith or divine healing.
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Pentecostals practice âmodestyâ. Women avoid wearing pants, avoid wearing jewelry and makeup, and not cut their hair. Hemlines of dresses should be below the knee while sleeves should reach past the elbow. Women should not swim with men. Pentecostal men should practice modesty with hair that does not cover the tops of their ears or reach their shirt collar. Both men and women should avoid movies, sports, and dancing.
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Pentecostals believe the Holy Spirit causes âfaithfulâ to speak in a language unknown to the speaker, or Speaking in Tongues.
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Pentecostal followers participate in foot washing (like Catholics on Holy Saturday) but with greater frequency.
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Golly, I thought that was Rick Scottâs wine cup.
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So Huck admits that his opposition has nothing to do with the Bible which condemns remarriage after divorce and everything to do with bigotry against gays:
Huckabee said he didnât âfollowâ the question, insisting, âThereâs a difference between marriage between a man and a woman and a marriage between two men or two women.â
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If you pointed out every inconsistency in wingnut rhetoric youâd have no time to eat or sleep. But this one is egregious, so letâs tick off a few points. Jesus explicitly says marriage after divorce is adultery. Couldnât be clearer. And he contradicts the Mosaic law, says it was wrong. If you donât take Jesus seriously then you can take the Old Testament as authoritative, fine, but you canât have it both ways. The Bible-thumpers are simply defending the status quo ante idea of marriage. Their peeps think marriage equality is weird, theyâre not used to the idea so it must be bad, and they go to the Bible because itâs conveniently both authoritative and ambivalent and you can make it say pretty much anything. They did the same thing with interracial marriage, they did the same thing with slavery, theyâd do the same thing if we made a serious effort to go to the fucking metric system. A minority of the population is still weirded out by gay marriage. Thatâs the reason for all of this. And itâs too bad for them but until they establish a theocracy, the fundies donât tell the rest of us how to live.
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Cubits rule!
P.S. I did some searching and came across this little jem:
As author Robert Crease noted in his book on the history of measurements, âThe extreme anti-metric system was born in Ohio and exhibited the classic signs of American antireform moments: xenophobia, rapid rhetoric, fabrication of âfacts,â reimagining history, conspiracy theories and appeals to the purity of nature and nation". In the 1800s, they claimed to oppose the metric system because, Crease added, they were supposedly âpatriots, capitalists, Christians and adherents to God, country and nature.â
[1]World in the Balance: The Historic Quest for an Absolute System of Measurement, Oct 24, 2011
by Robert P. Crease
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Funny you mention him. I dunno why it hasnât made the ânewsâ yet, but he was recently spotted twerking at a yoga classâŚ
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We really need a devout Catholic to refuse to issue a second license without proof of annulment, AND a Quaker to refuse to issue a carry permit for a handgun, AND a Pastafarian to reject a faith-based organizationâs application for tax exemption. Letâs take this religious liberty thing seriously, and go where it takes us.
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maybe they would allow us to bring back the cubit as a unit of measure instead of the metric systemâŚ
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Oh you mean like a cult?
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If gay marriage was not a problem in the 1st century, why did the Christian emperors Constantius II and Constans in 342 AD have to outlaw it?
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Once a person allows themselves the luxury to accept ideas like the virgin birth, or walking on water, or holy ghosts, or invisible angels, it is a simple process to adjust that logical flexibility to comport with whatever idea seems to be the most helpful to oneâs own ambitions.
All religious fundamentalists are capable of believing the most outlandish things. Itâs no accident that those things often lead them to money and attention, as well as the decided ability to ignore reality.
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