If a Mexican passport is considered secure enough for us to put a U.S. visa in it, which it is, then there is absolutely no legal justification whatsoever for claiming it’s not secure enough to justify issuing birth certificate. Frankly, most of the U.S. birth certificates I’ve seen (and there have been a fair number…

Here, take this alternate Jesus GIF as a consolation prize:

And with me home sick, too. I know what I’m doing today!

Jesus is not a prophet in Judaism. He has no religious significance in Jewish theology whatsoever.

I didn’t actually do this, I was just saying what my first reaction would be if some “Christian” asshole had tried pulling that on me. Although I would love to hear from someone who actually did do that- it would restore some of my faith in humanity.

I would have straight up Google stalked him until I figured out who his pastor was and sent his pastor a screen shot of the dick pic. Fucking gross.

If I were a liberal Christian, I don’t think I’d want to try a Christian dating site, personally. In all likelihood, you’d wind up matched with hellfire and brimstone, Southern Baptist or nondenominational types, which probably isn’t what you’re after if you’re, say, a gay marriage-supporting, woman clergy-loving,…

Eh, that’s not totally crazy. A significant number of the Orthodox Jewish converts I know were raised evangelical or occasionally hardline Catholic- I think they tend to gravitate toward Orthodoxy in part because they’re looking for the same kind of structure and community they had in their previous religion, and also…

Judaism does not, at all, consider Jesus a prophet. Not even a little bit. Most Jews will pay some degree of lip service to him as “a good person,” or something, because we’ve seen what happens when we don’t, but the idea of Jesus as any kind of a prophet has no place in normative Jewish theology.

I don’t know- I’m a fairly religious Jew, and there are circles where I definitely try not to give cues that would indicate that, not because I’m afraid of anti-Semitism (those are usually other circles, although sometimes there’s overlap), but because I don’t feel like arguing with evangelical atheists about…

I heard about this! I haven’t watched it because I’m afraid it’ll cause me to think DHP and Niles are creepy as fuck afterward.

God, I love Niles so much. Daphne was a lucky woman.

Oh, God, now I’m going to have to watch The Good Wife? Because I’ll watch basically anything if DHP is in it.

People are free to say whatever they want. They are not free from the consequences involved with saying what they want, the impressions of their character or beliefs that people take away from what they say, or from people choosing to avoid their company as a result of saying what they want. There’s also the whole…

From what I’ve seen? Nowhere near as much interest. Just like seemingly everyone who reenacts WWII Axis wants to reenact German, and there’s a whole swath of guys who are really into SS impressions. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen photos of anyone doing WWII Italian, although I’m sure someone must. All of this is a…

I might give a pass to a Civil War reenactor, assuming said flag was furled in a closet when not in use at an actual reenactment. As for the Nazi stuff, I can understand wanting to keep war trophies, and if presented with that explanation by someone who had some kind of shadowbox with all of their grandfather’s war…