As an also long-term Kinja user, albeit one whose account got wiped out by this process, I can assure you that it’s at least as bad as everyone fears, probably worse.

Anecdotal, but it applies to my parents. Evangelicals, but also New Dealers (dad even voted for Norman Thomas) until the Nixon era.

You mean when slaveowning Congressmen could beat the shit out of an abolitionist senator, put him in a coma that made him an invalid for years and left him with what we’d now call PTSD for the rest of his life?

There is no need for that. We don’t need any more violence. I don’t agree with his policies, but he is entitled to his position. It’s our job, to make our voices heard on our disapproval of those positions.

*sigh*

Are you from Missouri? I am. Show me “all sorts of complications” or show yourself out.

Yes it is exaggeration in that speech was that the specific actions of a couple applies to the many. The rest referring to those 15/16 year old girls is rather spot on.

Alex Kingston did a better Indiana Jones as River Song

My ex was the villain (his mom left me her furniture; his friends openly supported me in leaving his bullshit), and I would have loved for him to bring up divorce so I could stop trying to save a doomed marriage single-handedly instead of blaming myself for not being a good enough wife.

I’m glad my parents got a divorce. At age 12, my response to the news was “It’s about time.” It definitely wasn’t fun, but it beat the alternative. My dad wasn’t an awful human being, but he was absolute shit at being a father and husband.

A counterpoint: I’m 31 and recently married and I’d been willing my parents to divorce since I was 12. Their relationship was similar to the OP’s. I was sick of living in a situations where they were on-and-off, they were fighting all the time, and I didn’t feel like I had any control or stability. My life was…

That first one is very sad. I’m less concerned with the marriage being saved than I am with that dude figuring his friggin’ life out. Individual counseling seems the absolute best, most important thing. He needs to work on himself before dragging his wife into therapy to work with him—because based on the history laid…

This is such a complex issue which has really been oversimplified here. I agree wholeheartedly that most people in the church are not able to separate their hate for sin from the sinner. I wish LGBT were welcomed at churches. It is one of the few sins where the church expects the sinner to clean themselves before…

I was this close to exposing that guy until you published this article.

new Smith and Weston baseball bats.

Exactly like the Far Cry 5 game where a Christian cult has somehow taken over a chunk of a state and started impaling people on crosses. If you aren’t just as concerned with that improbable caricature that nobody wants, then your gripe is with the ideology itself, not how it’s portrayed.

What’s this? Someone capable of and willing to separate apples and oranges? Someone with a broad perspective? What are you doing on the internet?!

Putting aside the guys’ personal views, I just wanna know if the game is gonna be interesting. Couldn’t care less about his previous affiliations. If the game looks fun, and plays well, I’ll be happy.

Agreed. Yeah. No. This is disgusting. Let’s burn some books next! That’s how we can become just like the right we demonize.

Ummm... regardless of your opinion on this, I’m not sure any solution that ends in “burning art” is a great one.