It was in Maryland.

What state?

Well, to be fair my mental image of a cum Bible was crusty and unable to be opened.

I did the exact same thing, at a San Gennaro festival in NYC maybe 15 years ago. It might even have been the same woman.

That’s mortifying. I join you in hoping that woman was smugly cackling all the way to the bank, but I have zero faith left in humanity.

Yes, what you are saying is so true. White America has this image that racists are caricatures, over the top evil from central casting. Reading this interview reminds us that the truth is so much more complex—these things were done (or tolerated) by everyday white people—including reporters from the New Yorker or the…

You forget, only minorities can be racist, by calling them racist

Check and mate.

I once had someone non-ironically tell me, “My pastor told me NOT to open my mind, because that’s how the devil gets in.” I managed not to ask her what if he’s in there and can’t get out.

My fundy mentors used to say “Ask questions. God can handle it.” And then I’d ask toooo many questions and it was “Why are you giving the devil a foothold?”

Wouldn’t removing the “liberal bias” from the Bible pretty much mean removing the Gospels entirely?

All of this for doing what Christian monks did for centuries?

.... remove the liberal *bias*?!

She’d make millions if she started selling The Bible: As Annotated by Reagan.

Man that’s wild. I mean the old joke about “two Jews, three opinions” i know I know but I just thought Christians were similar at least. It’s so weird that debate isn’t valued. How else do you learn?

I want that so badly.

But the actual people who survived the Holocaust are against Israel’s shitty policies!

A majority of both Israelis and Palestinians support a two-state solution, but it isn’t reflected in their right-wing leadership. It’s not unique; a majority of Americans support progressive policies, and yet look how dominant the republican party is at every level of government.

I’m so unbelievably sick of every statement about Israel not handling its shit in a way that shows even a modicum of respect for the human people living in Palestine being colored as antisemitism.