Stupid things religious people say

[arewethereyet]

The idea of a 35 year old catholic woman lying to an eleven year old about her sex life is great though.  Was it a nun, was she undressing as she told the tale?

Thanks a lot...there are nuns I had for teachers and don't need that image in my head.  Who is going to rock me to sleep tonight?

[Fake Messiah]

Oh, please do fuck off.  I was raised in the Catholic church in a very, very Catholic part of eastern Iowa.  Your one encounter means jack shit.

Again, I'm not saying that all Catholic women are like this. I am aware there are others who even get pregnant outside of wedlock, but I'm talking about those that take directives from the Catholic Church very seriously.

[The Grand Nudger]

Conservative religious beliefs are a strong indicator of teen pregnancy in the us. Very few american catholics take the directives of the catholic church seriously..especially about sex. Ask the catholic church.

[Sheldon]

Conservative religious beliefs are a strong indicator of teen pregnancy in the us.  Very few american catholics take the directives of the catholic church seriously..especially about sex.  Ask the catholic church.

So it would seem:

"Although the United States spends about $88m (£44m; €65m) a year teaching teenagers to abstain from sex outside marriage, young people in the programmes are just as likely to have sex as those who don't receive counselling, a new study says.


Teenagers who received abstinence education did not delay sexual activity any longer than those in a control group. When they became sexually active they had the same number of partners and were as likely to use condoms or other contraceptives as those who had not been counselled.

Sharon Camp, president and chief executive officer of the Guttmacher Institute, which studies reproductive issues, said, “This rigorous, well designed study adds to and confirms previous research findings that abstinence only education programmes are ineffective and a waste of taxpayer dollars.” She called for more comprehensive programmes that not only teach abstinence but also provide information on contraception and safe sex."

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1857771/

"Federal funding of abstinence programmes was established by the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act. Individual states provide additional funding. The US has more than 700 programmes."

There's some money Musk could trim from the federal budget. Anyone want to email him?

[Fake Messiah]

The Catholic podcast "Catholic Unscripted" from the UK goes Nazi.

First segment.
Gavin Ashenden, a former Chaplain to the Queen between 2008 and 2017 and former BBC podcaster, performed a Nazi salute in unison with his fellow hosts of the "Catholic Unscripted" podcast. They say: "Our hearts go out to you."

The trio, including Catholic writers Katherine Bennett and Mark Lambert, did the Nazi salute to show support for Calvin Robinson, a priest who was defrocked by the Anglican church after performing the salute at a recent anti-abortion conference in Washington, DC.

Second segment.
Katherine Bennett goes on to argue that Adolf Hitler was not "evil" nor the "embodiment of evil." That by calling Hitler & Nazis evil we shut down any discussion about them because we simplify Hitler.

Third segment.
Gavin Ashenden starts singing "Tomorrow Belongs To Me," a song from the musical "Cabaret" that's sung by a Nazi character and that has become an anthem adopted by neo-Nazi groups.

[Fake Messiah]

[arewethereyet]

^Putting this on my list of things not to buy for stocking stuffers this year...or any other year.

[Fake Messiah]

Ah, the Super Bowl show is again deemed satanic by Christian snowflakes. Was it two years ago when they accused Rhianna of being satanic because she was pregnant but unmarried?

MAGA Thoroughly Flips Out Over ‘Satanic’ Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl Show

Conservatives melted down over Kendrick Lamar’s performance at the Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday.

Some of President Donald Trump’s MAGA acolytes said they couldn’t understand what the Grammy Award-winning musician was rapping about during his set. Others suggested he was somehow in league with the devil.

Actor Samuel L. Jackson’s appearance as Uncle Sam has been interpreted as a diss toward Trump.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/maga-thoroughl...50063.html

[Fake Messiah]

Gee, you don't say.

Christian Allegiance to Trump Has Wrecked My Faith

On Jan. 6, 2021, the United States Capitol Building was attacked by a mob of violent insurrectionists led by then President Donald Trump. Fueled by conspiracies of massive voter fraud, and urged on by Trump, rioters proceeded to invade the building, erecting gallows on the National Mall’s lawn and rallying to chants of “Hang Mike Pence!” All this in an attempt to subvert the results of the 2020 election. Though ultimately unsuccessful in overturning the election, the attack would leave several dead, countless injured, and result in millions of dollars in damage.

At the time, I’d hoped this ugly assault signaled an end to Trump’s influence over the American people — particularly those professing to be Christian. Trump had consistently demonstrated that he was both a bad leader and a bad person. In the aftermath of the Jan. 6 attack, evangelicals had to see that securing culture war victories wasn’t worth the cost of empowering a vengeful authoritarian and known sexual predator.

Sadly, this was not the case.

This January, Trump was once again sworn in as president of the United States, propelled to office by the unwavering support of countless evangelical Christians.

For me, the results of the 2024 presidential election felt like the punchline to an incredibly cruel joke. I grew up in the church and still remember the lessons taught to me by my old mentors. I was told that following Jesus meant that truth mattered, justice mattered, how I treated women mattered, and how I treated my neighbor mattered. Later, when I came out as a gay man, my Christian peers insisted that I put aside my personal feelings and desires in the name of biblical fidelity. I spent years of my life making painful and irreversible sacrifices in order to do what I thought was right at the time. Then Trump came along, and suddenly the narrative changed — truth was pliable, character was irrelevant, and justice was getting in the way of “winning.”

That the majority of Christians would choose to vote for Trump not once, not twice, but three times felt like confirmation of all my worst doubts and fears: Namely, that Christianity had never truly been about God or goodness; it had always been about power.

https://sojo.net/articles/opinion/christ...d-my-faith

[Angrboda]

It's hard not to see in hindsight. A movement that focuses on the powerless is going to inherently about correcting that imbalance through the acquisition of power.