For that aspect, I squarely blame Evangelicals more than the works themselves. You can use the Bible (and many other religious texts) to validate almost any opinion or belief.

Yeah. No. You can’t. Just to start things off, the catholic church’s wealth is north of 73 billion, and it owns some of the largest hedge funds in the world.

The Vatican itself is its own nation-state.

And throughout history, the Catholics have literally started more wars than any other sect- including crusades against others.m

And, let’s not forgo that the American diocese are full on maga asshats and fully supported Kirk, fully supports war in Gaza and trump in general.

This isn’t a modern thing, by any stretch. We can go through all the awful shit Jesus was apparently cool with, if you’d like. The point being here is that Paul retconned things a bit to make Jesus more palatable to Roman’s, but even then, it was all still quite awful.

Even if you’re quite studious about it, and pare off anything that’s awful, you’re still getting some questionable stuff and largely left with “shit we didn’t need to be told”.

That’s just it. I don’t think he actually was any of that.

I don’t think the gospels are an accurate reflection of his actual teachings. The more peaceable are probably inserts- at best.

Keep in mind Paul was a Roman citizen, and benefited from that authority (even if Christianity wouldn’t be legal until 313, iirc, with the edict of Milan by Constantine)

But also the messiah absolutely was supposed to be a warlord, leading the extermination and subjugation of every kingdom in the world, as a descendent of David, the messiah was to be a high priest and king all in one.

According to Jesus, the nations of the world would be worshipping the same god, and coming under the law of Moses and all that. Paul decided to drop that, mostly because gentiles didn’t want to snip the tip, or give up comfy clothing or bacon. Or any of the other random ass commandments. (There’s a lot. 613 traditionally in the mitzvot.)

Keep in mind, the gospels were after the Pauline letters, and a lot of thing in them just didn’t happen.

So if the prostitute was turning a trick in the temple, do you think he’d have whipped her, too?

He wasn’t angry because they were “capitalists” he was angry that they were doing their capitalist thing in the temple.

Keep in mind the money lenders were there as a service to people basically on a pilgrimage to make temple offerings- from around the entire region. People who wouldn’t know where to trade money and get sacrificial animals. It was probably like the money changers at the airport- catching people who needed to change money and didn’t mind the convenience tax.

It’s also important to note that Christ wasn’t actually a pacifist.

He just likes it when people obey the authoritarians. Mostly because he was also an authoritarian. (I mean, seriously. Look at what the messiah was actually supposed to do- ignore Paul and revelations, that has nothing to do with a Jewish messiah.)

To me, I think it’s more likely the motive behind “turn the other cheek” was more a warning to bide their time. Remember, Rome could rofflestomp them at any point they wanted to, and everyone knew it.

(Which they did end up doing in around 70ad, because an ex high priest, who had been high priest thanks to bribes, got out bid by another, and rumors were spreading that other died, so ex high priest made a bid for it again, pissing off Roman officials. This is what lead to the destruction of the second temple.)

I consider it to be that she’s been so abused by everyone in her life … that it’s normal to her. Like many battered wives.

The abuse may not be physical, but I doubt she wasn’t abused.

Remember, Folks. Flies attract disease, so keep yours closed.

(or use protection.)

She was married to Charlie fucking Kirk.

He probably expected her to be subservient in literally everything. Probably didn’t think she should have had her own banking card. Probably didn’t think she should vote.

It’s not hard to imagine she had a terrible relationship. Sad that she’s not taking the opportunity to leave.

“they see me roll’n. they hate’n”

(no, we lov’n, though. What a fluffer.)

“I thought it was bigger on the inside!”

More like big ag corpos could buy out smaller ag corpos.

“Family” farms haven’t been family-operated in ages. Just family owned.

24th century cultivars are just renamed and rebranded 23th century cultivars.

It all started with Scotty’s use of the warp nacelles as a grow… which the constant exposure to that… created the strains Quantum Leaf and Warped Dream. mostly, Warped Dream getting renamed because…well. it sounds like a bad trip.

Sorry. Wrong pub med out of the hundreds of studies on what kind of sex ed works. Here. Have some more.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3194801/

https://news.uga.edu/abstinence-only-sex-education-study/

https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/sex-education

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/354741953_Comprehensive_sexuality_education_to_reduce_pregnancy_and_STIs_in_adolescents_in_the_United_States_A_systematic_review_and_meta-analysis

I’m not sure how you can do any kind of search on this and conclude that abstinence-only sex ed works. It doesn’t. We know that.

We know that kids are going to fuck. The only real difference is if they’re comfortable telling adults when something goes wrong; and also know if something is going wrong.

Shame and guilt doesn’t stop behavior- it causes people to hide it.

You might pretend you don’t give a shit…

But when you start throwing shit at them…

Technically, that’s giving a shit.

Hunting is a lot easier when they just walk right up to you saying “zomgsoocuuutteeeeee” and then turn their back to you.

George of Mars

At first I thought this was some sort of magical portal to somewhere…then I scrolled down enough to see the face; lol.

“Well, in that case, let me divulge all of our contingency plans, the exact layout and protocols for accessing camp David and everything else you need. For realism. Just don’t make us look like morons, Kay?”- secret service, maybe

Honestly…. As an adult, the kids table is way more fun.

You have to pay the store for it.

Wait. Rose isn’t baked all the time?

It’s not her fault for not being as baked as Bev, though. The 23rd century weed was some special stuff.