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I think that might be because they are actually afraid of what God will do to them once they put any critical thought into it. Critical thought is the diametric opposite of faith, and as such threatens the very foundation of faith. It's why many fundamentalist people are suspicious of the very idea of education itself, even starting with grade school, but certainly at levels beyond that when young adults begin to be exposed to previously unencountered ideas. Ideas threaten God.

This gets me to wondering how much failed helicopter parenting has to do with this, if anything. Hypothetically, I can envision where many parents believe it’s going to be as easy as pushing buttons to control their kids growing up—then, when the kids reach the age of pushing back, the parents don’t know how to handle that (perhaps because their own parents didn’t model effective parenting for them), they freak out at the pushback, then go 100% hands off, leaving the kids to their own devices for basically the rest of their childhoods, while the failed parents simply focus on their own interests. How common is that, I wonder.

Because their particular strain of religion demands absolute certainty and zero compromise. It’s all related and of a kind.

Musta saw too many white people getting caught up in the ****canning.

I’m thinking about pulling the ripcord on ORCL right now, or perhaps set some kind of trailing stop on it. It’s already down some -15% from Wednesday's high. Probably should consider that for PLTR and my other tech as well. My only hesitation is the tax hit. Gotta figure something out.

Fire Harris!

Access is everything in competitive for-profit beat journalism, sports or not. How many media outlets banded together to protest when access to White House press conferences was yanked from AP? Divide and conquer simply works.

The Tigers are 21-8 when Skubal starts a game, which means they are 63-56 when he doesn’t. That makes us about a .530 team without him.

Easier to envision trading him now that he’s damaged.

This reads like a joke Dennis Miller would put his audience to sleep with.

How are they retaliating against Stavenhagen?

It will move sales and donations. That’s what it’s about.

Yes, I agree, and the only problem with what sounds like should have been that perfect plan is that the Republican senators were afraid they’d be hanged, literally, by their own radicalized ride-or-die red hat constituents, probably led by their own states’ Republican congressional delegation. Would that have actually happened? No way to know, but those swing-vote senators were not about to FAFO.

The assassination of civility has been very, very profitable.

Don’t underestimate their ability to succeed at hanging this on Teh Left anyway.

Agree with you on all this, but none of that is required for evangelicals to get to heaven—they believe. It’s all about the acceptance of JCAYPLAS. Good works don’t mean did diddley. And that I believe is a purposeful distinction.

It’s the only way they can reasonably justify their otherwise generalized anger at time refusing to stand still.

That’s generally true of those I have met but this one is really self-absorbed and pretty absent when you’re around her.

Yeah, well, I don't know, maybe I'm a little ****ed up here, but, I tend to seek out the logic in arguments. 😏

I don't see how Trump and MAGA precipitated the Kroger cuts? Looks like the same thing that would have happened under any president. Or am I missing something in the story?

The one trans person I know best is a selfish jerk who’s unpleasant to be around. But even so, so what? She has a right to be as unpleasant as anyone else does. Everyone should be allowed to actualize their true selves on their own terms.

I don’t think it’s as much dip****tery and asshattery as it is a bid for narrative control about the shooter.

Wish there was a way for me to give two thanks on this.

This is a big ball of wax right here. This lays bare the whole fallacy of that born again nonsense, which stipulates the only way to get to heaven is by "accepting Jesus Christ as your personal lord and savior", and that good works or good behavior or good ethics count for nothing. Doesn't matter how evil you act because you're going to heaven if you've accepted Jesus etc. It serves as a cosmic license to lie and steal and kill.

How come?