@avclub-e4bd2b639df676f2741e9e8159b9564a:disqus , are you saying then that you accept the premise that what Pussy Riot did was in fact a hate crime against the Russian Orthodox Church, and that Putin's government is not deliberately misrepresenting the event?  Because I don't think even the Soviets ever put people on…

Can I join your club?  I've always thought there must be something wrong with me.

Can I join your club?  I've always thought there must be something wrong with me.

What did you say?

What did you say?

You take the blonde and I'll take the one in the turban!

You take the blonde and I'll take the one in the turban!

Many who are last deserve to be first, and many who are first deserve cancerAIDS.  It's been going around, is what I'm saying.

Many who are last deserve to be first, and many who are first deserve cancerAIDS.  It's been going around, is what I'm saying.

So you're an equal opportunity offender, yet you believe some people are more deserving of being offended than others.  Look, man, either you have an agenda or you don't.  Don't try to dance around it: you try to offend the particular people you want to offend, because you feel entitled to judge them.

So you're an equal opportunity offender, yet you believe some people are more deserving of being offended than others.  Look, man, either you have an agenda or you don't.  Don't try to dance around it: you try to offend the particular people you want to offend, because you feel entitled to judge them.

Yeah, about that; are you one of those people who takes someone else's offense as absolute evidence that you have accomplished something worthwhile?  Because there's nothing particularly noble about that.  Speak the truth, not just the most provocative idea you can come up with at any given moment.

Yeah, about that; are you one of those people who takes someone else's offense as absolute evidence that you have accomplished something worthwhile?  Because there's nothing particularly noble about that.  Speak the truth, not just the most provocative idea you can come up with at any given moment.

I think I must have missed it too.  TO HULU!

I think I must have missed it too.  TO HULU!

This was the first time I watched a full episode of Saturday Night Live since they had Tina Fey doing Sarah Palin back in 2008.  I miss Tina Fey.

This was the first time I watched a full episode of Saturday Night Live since they had Tina Fey doing Sarah Palin back in 2008.  I miss Tina Fey.

Alright, but I didn't think the position I was articulating was salvation through faith alone.  In my first post in this thread, I said that only sincere conversion could save, and that sincere conversion was marked by good works and atonement.  Salvation through faith alone may be uniquely Protestant, but Catholicism…

Alright, but I didn't think the position I was articulating was salvation through faith alone.  In my first post in this thread, I said that only sincere conversion could save, and that sincere conversion was marked by good works and atonement.  Salvation through faith alone may be uniquely Protestant, but Catholicism…

Well, I come at the question from a Catholic background, and my understanding of the church's doctrine is that anyone who wishes to join the Church can be saved.  So if it's a Protestant opinion, it's a Catholic one as well, at least as far as I understand the doctrine.