THE ERA OF TRUMP

[DBTrek]

Resurrection was like a Level 8 spell I think. Jesus must’ve killed around 2 million goblins to get that shit working.

I’m just curious. I’m certainly no hipster trying to earn fake “cool” cred by flashing atheist gang signs, but Occam’s Razor would suggest that the shared Judeo-Christian environment most Americans have been raised in would be the culprit for Jesus name discomfort.

If not that ... then I have to turn to D&D for other possible explanations.

[DrYouth]

Somebody once pointed out to me that the name of Jesus is like a curse to the wicked.

A curse to the wicked or a curse to those that were somehow poorly served by the faith.
Beaten by nuns, sexually abused by priests, bored to death by windbag sermons, made neurotic by fire and brimstone threats or failed "exorcisms".
The list goes on as to the possibilities.

That is to say that "nervous as a whore in church" is also a thing... I don't discount that.... but it's not the only reason that the name Jesus has its effects.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Resurrection was like a Level 8 spell I think. Jesus must’ve killed around 2 million goblins to get that shit working.

I’m just curious. I’m certainly no hipster trying to earn fake “cool” cred by flashing atheist gang signs, but Occam’s Razir would suggest that the shared Judeo-Christian environment most Americans have been raised in would be the culprit for Jesus name discomfort.

If not that ... then I have to turn to D&D for other possible explanations.

Most likely, yeah. We’re undergoing a full rejection of a corrupted and abusive system - religion is a part of that.

Or Jesus killed a dragon.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Somebody once pointed out to me that the name of Jesus is like a curse to the wicked.

A curse to the wicked or a curse to those that were somehow poorly served by the faith.
Beaten by nuns, sexually abused by priests, bored to death by windbag sermons, made neurotic by fire and brimstone threats or failed "exorcisms".
The list goes on as to the possibilities.

That is to say that "nervous as a whore in church" is also a thing... I don't discount that.... but it's not the only reason that the name Jesus has it's effects.

This.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Civil Rights lawl.

https://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2017/12/1 ... g-grounds/

Last week, my brother and his longterm girlfriend entered these United States at JFK international airport in New York City. She’s a Chinese citizen with a tourist (B1/B2 visa), which leads to many restrictions on when she’s allowed to enter and for how long. They are always meticulous about playing everything exactly by the book, and this time was no different. The only unusual thing about this latest episode is his girlfriend happened to encounter an authoritarian and power-tripping U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer, who pulled her into a room and immediately began berating her. He accused her of breaking the law (she hadn’t), and forced her to hand over her phone and divulge her password. After initially refusing to provide the password, the officer threatened deportation, at which point she relented. Entering the password for access to the phone wasn’t enough, he forced her to write it down on a piece of paper. The officer then proceeded to scroll through her phone for 15-20 minutes, looking for who knows what. My brother was separated from her during this time.

With his girlfriend still isolated in the room, the officer in question emerged and began barking at my brother to sit down in an extremely aggressive manner. The officer told him she had broken the law, at which point he assured him that she hadn’t. At this point, the officer became extremely agitated that a pleb had the nerve to challenge him, and lectured my brother about how he didn’t know the law, pointing out that he wasn’t an immigration lawyer so he couldn’t possibly know his rights. He then implied that the only reason someone would know their civil rights is if they’re a criminal with an intent to commit a crime. The officer also threatened to deport his girlfriend and deny her reentry for five years if my brother continued to challenge his false assertions. She was ultimately allowed to enter.

Many of you will read this and think her experience was a result of not being a U.S. citizen, but the truth is far more disturbing. The border is seen by the government as a civil rights-free zone where U.S. citizens are being increasingly treated like criminals and subject to the exact same sort of degrading abuse as my brother’s girlfriend. This is something I’ve been meaning to write about for a while, and this recent experience inspired me to do so today. Many of you have no idea how bad things already are.

[C-Mag]

Democrat 'leaders' act like spoiled children sitting down at the grocery store when they didn't get the candy they wanted.

And Tax Cuts PASS

[Speaker to Animals]

Somebody once pointed out to me that the name of Jesus is like a curse to the wicked.

A curse to the wicked or a curse to those that were somehow poorly served by the faith.
Beaten by nuns, sexually abused by priests, bored to death by windbag sermons, made neurotic by fire and brimstone threats or failed "exorcisms".
The list goes on as to the possibilities.

That is to say that "nervous as a whore in church" is also a thing... I don't discount that.... but it's not the only reason that the name Jesus has its effects.

So your only counter to the point is that some Christians did bad things. Okay. That pretty well illustrates my point. I was talking about the vast majority of people who feel the psychological sting from that word who had no such experience, many of whom never set foot inside a church. "But some Christians did bad things" does not in any way challenge my assertion.

I was one of you. I remember that sting. You can't snow me here. Though you can obviously snow yourselves..

[K@th]

Rosie O'Donnel attempted to bribe US Senators via twitter.

“As a businessman and a very substantial donor to very important people, when you give, they do whatever the hell you want them to do,” Trump told The Wall Street Journal in July 2015. “As a businessman, I need that.”

[DBTrek]

“I’m projecting my own personal experience on the world, so you can’t snow me here. I know how I felt, so I also know how all you feel.”

Is that the takeaway here.

[Fife]

Wait, what? There's corruption in the State of Dem Gibs???

:gobsmacked: