One of the sadder persons I know left his faith which meant leaving his family and his whole world. He’s hoping that as his kids get older they will talk to him. The Us vs Them mentality is very strong. 

I would argue that even the old testament is more loving than modern evangelicals, and that's saying something. It's so obvious how they twist ideas to their own desires, rather than the ideas presented in text. Ie the sin of Onan is trying to game the system on a technicality, and has nothing to do with birth…

We are not made in the image of god. God is made in the image of us.

I wish you could come talk to the university students I teach. Each year I do so much work to introduce new ideas to young adults who arrive with super indoctrinated stances on the world... we make some progress throughout the year and then I have to do it all over again with the next batch. Year after year, more than…

Yes, you basically just described my upbringing too. My “seeing the light” moment was followed with years of drug and alcohol abuse because living in the world post-god was scary as hell. He has a ton of work to do now because he not only lost his beliefs but his marriage is breaking up, evangelicals hate him and he…

That’s my stance on anti-vaxxers who try to use the whole “God’s Will” argument. God didn’t put your brains in your head to throw away or turn into a lump of passive oatmeal.

All I know is, expanding how you love and refusing to condemn anyone in God’s name will never, ever send you to hell, my dear. Not ever.

I left the faith when I was 20. Nearly 30 years later, I still sometimes get a long, dark night of the soul where I’m terrified that I’ll go to Hell and that my non-Christian husband and kids will, too.

Much respect, both for your moral/emotional toughness and for the phrase “died-again.”

If god wants to send us to hell for using the brain he gave us, and trying to be accepting (liberal) rather than hating (religion/the right) then.....I don’t really know what to say. 

thank you for providing context.

This is my guess too, the crew simply related to the men, who doesn’t want to get a little girl drunk and rape her? And if she’s drinking she must want it. Classic victim blaming/himpathy.

A lot of the misconceptions about bystanders not intervening is based on wildly sensationalized and inaccurate reporting from the famous Kitty Genovese case back in the 60s. “You’re Wrong About” has a great episode about it.

Who doesn’t stop and call the police for her???

Evelyn Waugh was briefly married to a woman called Evelyn Gardner. Their friends called them He-Evelyn and She-Evelyn

The deeper one reads into all of this, the more mindblowing it gets. So. Many. People. Involved. I’m really hoping that we get to read the unsealed Guiffre lawsuit soon. Shit is about to get absolutely fucking crazy. 

Yeah, but when the voting machines are hacked, I’m not sure it’ll do much good. 

What the fuck difference does it make? NONE! These are violent little assholes, their appearance is irrelevant.

Racists xenophobe says what?  What is your race?  Nobody gives a shit.

Pretty much all of the research on bystander actions stresses how badly people do not want to get involved. And it’s worse in a group dynamic. If there are a lot of people around, the science basically confirms that people are less likely to act. Everyone assumes someone else will step in. Or they assume that because…