I'm guess you're ELCA and not Missouri/Wisconsin synod?

the checker tool website is down now...

You are so right—he never says what he thinks "the base" might want to hear. He says what he truly believes, and he's usually dead-on. I think he just uses common sense. And I'd like to hear him say "that's bullshit" a lot more often.

I know my first reaction was like "oh look at you doing a thingwaitaminute"

Agree to disagree... Both about the shrewdness of the same, tired rhetorical questions; and about the inherent cruelty of religions. Do people act cruelly in the name of religion? Absolutely. Do people act cruelly in the name of science? Absolutely. Humans have been using both religion and science and whatever else…

SEE! IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE RELIGIOUS PEOPLE R TEH DUMB! THAT'S WHY IT IS TEH FUNNIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hahaha yesss, yes! Someone told me to shut up because I think wearing a colander on their head is stupid! This is the best ever. This is the BEST post to get upset over! What religious protest would I approve of? How about an ACTUAL religious protest, because I think you'd be hard pressed to find a religious battle at…

"She says she believes no one should be forced into religious beliefs."

Please don't. It's like those idiots who declared themselves "Jedi" on the census. You're not doing yourself or atheists any favors. You're just making atheists look like pretentious, smug, grumpy, assholes. It's the equivalent of firing off a stupid one liner like "If God's so great, could he make a burrito so large…

You realize that saying "no offense" doesn't actually make your statement unoffensive, right? Insult religion or don't, but don't call religion ridiculous and compare it to a joke like pastafarianism, then try to say you didn't mean it to offend anyone.

I'm all for equality between all of us, regardless of beliefs, but this? Eh. It doesn't hurt me that a Muslim woman can wear a headscarf in an ID. Or any other religion that requires hair covers for that matter.

It just seems silly how she's trying to make it seem like some kind of religious protest. How is the DMV forcing religion on anyone? You're not protesting anything!

I'm pretty strongly anti-religion in a lot of ways. At the very least, you can say I'm an atheist (because that's true).

Thank you...you hit everything I wanted to say.

you would not believe how much I hate conflict.

...which one is Betty?

I've been in love with this guy for 40 years. FORTY YEARS. When Barack Obama chose him as his running mate I squealed.

This headline is so misleading. She wasn't making love to a motorcycle, she was making love to her fingers on a motorcycle. Apples and dildos, Mark.

Biden is one of those politicians who has never been served well by the primary system. He seems like a genuinely smart, competent guy who would make a good President, but he doesn't have that rock star quality that the media focuses on in the primaries. Maybe if he just cut loose and didn't try to censor himself…

The thing about Biden is the "loose cannon" reputation is purely an invention of opposition political campaigns that some in the media fell for. For decades, he has been known as one of the brightest people in the Senate. It was weird watching people on TV being shocked when he did well in debates the last two…