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5 hours ago, Ex-Creationist said:

Ahh, memories! I was raised by fundies, so "fruit inspectors" were real things. But it wasn't being Judgy McJudgerson. That's different. Somehow. I never REALLY understood how that was different, but it was--or so I was told a whole bunch of times.

Of course, I ALSO rolled my eyes at the pastor's wife who explained that the verse in Matthew reads, in full, to judge not let you be judged by the same measure. In other words--which I figured out after having a conversation with her--it's totally cool to judge as long as you're cool with being judged for identical or at least comparable "sins." In other words, if a person has never done X, then that person can feel free to "inspect fruit" and find you lacking if you've done/are doing X. 

There are more-charitable interpretations of that, of course. I know Christians who take that passage to mean that we ALL struggle with something, so we should be compassionate and supportive. 

My takeaway from my church and pastor and pastor's wife was that "fruit inspector" and "judgmental jerk" were interchangeable. Your mileage may vary, of course. 

So it's like a game of 'Never Have I Ever' except with no consent or fun.

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13 hours ago, nastyhobbitses said:

It's OK, he can keep making more of those "I'm an asshole to my wife but then I told Jesus I was sowwy and now it's OK and I'm going to awkwardly hug my female costar because I'm afraid of cheating on my wife if I kiss anyone but her" movies he does with the Kendrick brothers.

He can borrow Chick Tracts for inspiration.  There's loads of stories to choose from.

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6 minutes ago, uber frau said:

He can borrow Chick Tracts for inspiration.  There's loads of stories to choose from.

I just want him to do more Saving Christmas-style movies where he uses convoluted and downright bizarre Christian apologetics to justify things he likes to do that others have pointed out are not in keeping with traditional Christian teachings. Up next: Kirk Cameron's Saving Pornography, where Kirk-Off claims that the Bible mentioned nudity a few times, so it's totally OK and in fact part of being a good upstanding Christian to marathon Naughty Nurses Volumes 3 - 25.

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17 hours ago, CyborgKin said:

So it's like a game of 'Never Have I Ever' except with no consent or fun.

Yes. Unless your idea of "fun" is judging the ever-loving shit out of everybody from Teh Gayz to single parents to the very worst of people: those who stay home on Super Bowl Sunday instead of going to church! (Seriously, entire SERMONS on the big day revolved around how GREAT we were for showing up instead of watching the game.)

(Please note that I don't actually think that ANY of the aforementioned people or situations/orientations are evil or sinful. Hell, I'm transgender and would much rather watch the Super Bowl than do pretty much anything else that afternoon/evening. And all I care about re: parents is that they love their children and do what's best for said kids.)

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I just want him to do more Saving Christmas-style movies where he uses convoluted and downright bizarre Christian apologetics to justify things he likes to do that others have pointed out are not in keeping with traditional Christian teachings. Up next: Kirk Cameron's Saving Pornography, where Kirk-Off claims that the Bible mentioned nudity a few times, so it's totally OK and in fact part of being a good upstanding Christian to marathon Naughty Nurses Volumes 3 - 25.



Ken Alexander would love this!
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7 hours ago, Ex-Creationist said:

Yes. Unless your idea of "fun" is judging the ever-loving shit out of everybody from Teh Gayz to single parents to the very worst of people: those who stay home on Super Bowl Sunday instead of going to church! (Seriously, entire SERMONS on the big day revolved around how GREAT we were for showing up instead of watching the game.)

(Please note that I don't actually think that ANY of the aforementioned people or situations/orientations are evil or sinful. Hell, I'm transgender and would much rather watch the Super Bowl than do pretty much anything else that afternoon/evening. And all I care about re: parents is that they love their children and do what's best for said kids.)

 I once came across an Assemblies of God magazine that had an article which felt the need to explain that the Super Bowl is "the championship game of the National Football League."  

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1 hour ago, smittykins said:

 I once came across an Assemblies of God magazine that had an article which felt the need to explain that the Super Bowl is "the championship game of the National Football League."  

If I were the one writing the article, I can't say that it would have occurred to me to explain the Super Bowl. 

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4 hours ago, smittykins said:

 I once came across an Assemblies of God magazine that had an article which felt the need to explain that the Super Bowl is "the championship game of the National Football League."  

I suppose if I thought I was writing for an international audience then the explanation makes sense. I think I would also feel the need to explain that what the rest of the world calls football bears zero resemblance to what Americans call football.

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The article was about the Souper Bowl, which my own church has participated in.  And I'm pretty sure the AoG magazine is US-based.

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On 7/25/2016 at 7:21 PM, Loveday said:

I hate to speak ill of the dead, no matter who they are, but that Left Behind series is some of the worst writing ever put between book covers. :my_dodgy:

 

 

If you think he wrote any of that...

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1 hour ago, CloakNDagger said:

If you think he wrote any of that...

Doesn't matter who actually wrote it. His name is on all those covers, along with Jerry Jenkins, so he's 50% responsible.  :my_dodgy:

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10 hours ago, CloakNDagger said:

If you think he wrote any of that...

According to my mother who googled him the other day, he wrote the plot outlines.  So he's responsible for all the ideas.

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15 hours ago, Loveday said:

Doesn't matter who actually wrote it. His name is on all those covers, along with Jerry Jenkins, so he's 50% responsible.  :my_dodgy:

Responsible, yes, really the author - nah. Same for a lot of other articles.

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On 7/26/2016 at 0:48 PM, Coconut Flan said:

Is this the spot to insert my favorite Eastern Orthodox joke?

An Orthodox believer dies and goes to Heaven.  St Peter is taking him on a tour and they come to a very high brick wall.  St Peter says SHHH be very quiet.  The Orthodox believer asks why?  St Peter says because that's where we have all the Fundamentalists/Baptists.  They think they're the only ones here and we don't want to upset them. 

I've heard that joke with the believer strolling around with St. Peter being a member of various denominations. But the people behind the wall are always fundies or specifically Baptists.

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