the line of demarcation between OT warrior/psychopath God and detached paternalist God

It is interesting that a common secular refrain is that religious people need the threat of damnation and the promise of eternal deserts to act good. But it’s also a common complaint that we’d all be better off without this safety guard, which is apparently the only thing keeping billions of people holding to even the…

Holy shit, I need to find this setlol

Reminds me of the Louis Black bit about how “The old testament if for us Jews” and that the Christians couldn’t handle the scary and vindictive OG and had to bring in “the nice young man who talked about love and peace.” 

How so?

How?

very much! so many evangelicals will go on and on about the “new covenant in christ, he fulfilled the law, sooooo”

I’ve read two versions. Narratively, it’s somehow simultaneously disjointed and overindulgent dogshit. It’s a massive, convoluted fucking lore dump that’d make Tetsuo Nomura blush.

Just as I finished buckling in, I realized I agreed with him. What a lame ride!

He’s just saying what all rational people already know, but bloggers need to frame it in the “Brian Cox Says a Thing” trend that drives so many clicks.

America is weird that way. People freaked out when Dawkins published “The God Delusion” as if it was some weird position to question religion. Meanwhile people in Europe were like “Didn’t Bertrand Russell write basically the same thing in ‘Why I am not a Christian’ about a century ago?”

I am an atheist and am excited to learn that, apparently, it now qualifies me as an “edgelord” as well. I also got whiplash from the way this article seemed to keep pivoting back and forth on whether the author thought it was the worst take, a legit take, a weird take, etc. 

It’s ‘contrarian’ and ‘edgelord’ to champion critical thinking skills now? Sounds like something a rib bone would say.

I’m sorry, but what makes his take “edgelord”? Are all atheist takes edgelord?

Three sources, including one close to Seven Bucks, claimed Johnson averaged no more than an hour late to set.

If you smell what the Rock is cookin... It’s asparagus.

I’m reminded of an old quote from Charlton Heston (and I’m paraphrasing a bit here): “I never had any illusions about my ability as an actor, but I showed up sober & on time, had my lines memorized, I hit my marks, and I filled out a toga”.

None of this seems at all surprising, except the beef with Ryan Reynolds.  It seems impossible to piss Ryan Reynolds off.  He’s so easygoing.  Dwayne must have been the biggest of assholes.

Oh, also, The Rock apparently pees in water bottles to save time and possibly hands his urine bottles off to assistants or PAs to deal with, but that was already sort of public knowledge?