The one where the kid had a monster in his basement that became active from music, and then fed a fucking bully to it. And the monster gave him a shiny new bike in thanks.

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Yeah… there's also the theory that Matthew invented a part, and Luke copied from Matthew while making changes. I've read some stuff from the ant-Q people, and I'm not sure if its really ever going to be firmed up one way or the other unless people dig up something.

I bet they just have an NPR program that lists people during one of those hours a normal person wouldn't be listening to NPR.

Certainly… its just funny to think that at one point that was the baseline practice. I don't think people think of baptism today as being as special as early Christians did. They way it's done now at birth, with a lot of denominations not believing in the sinfulness of babies, it's more of an introduction to the…

Oh, I didn't mean to imply you did, more that the people making the new Left Behind seemed to :)

It kind of makes sense if you're a Christian parent in a time with a high infant death rate, vs someone coming to Christianity later in life and wanting to game the system.

That episode of American Dad about the Rapture was still probably the single best Rapture themed thing I've ever seen. "Merry Christmas, Mr and Mrs Jesus."

Also, from what I understand of it, the stories of Jesus in the Koran are derived from weird Gospels of Mary, where Jesus talks as a baby and uses powers in the womb. So Islamic understanding of Jesus isn't like they have a book with Old Testament, New Testament, Koran.. it's more that they use stories derived from…

Another good point is that Matthew and Luke are basically just rewrites of Mark. So you really only have 2 core Gospels, and two extras if you prefer Cool Calm Jesus or More Jewish Jesus.

At least some of that anger isn't even about you either… you don't really learn a critical view of the historicity of the Bible in church unless you really want to. There's a reason half the people in seminary quit in tears.

Why bother? The sort of Christians that this movie is for, and who wrote the books it's based from are hardly subtle in their dripping disgust and disdain for everyone outside of their narrow beliefs. I'm sure Nathan isn't angry at your average Episcopalian.

Me too… Good Omens was such a great read I finished the whole thing on a single flight. It's weirdly Orwellian how much some Bible thumpers like to focus hatred and anger at other people. The ability to see the suffering of the damned from heaven is considered a selling point for a lot of people… I think it's part…

A friend has told me me that her mother advised her to reject the sign of the Beast after The Rapture. She'd be killed and instantly get into heaven, because I guess that's equal to a lifetime of service and self denial?

Christians aren't stupid… I'm sure that this movie gave them the feeling that they were being exploited as a way for Hollywood to make money of them, while God is Not Dead or Heaven is For Real were made by people that actually believed what they preached.

When I cry, it's because people have insulted my beer on the AVclub.

"Mars evolved life just to keep his party going."

I'm just not sure that you're going to get through to Trump supporters by calling them Nazis. Cause that's what, like 30% of the Republican party? More?

Well, it's fraught because it's the most extreme possible analogy. I suppose Trump probably deserves it more than most, but I generally don't like to bring out the Nazi's taking over the Germany lightly, you know? I remember a person of my facebook feed complaining that an Obama rally was like a Hitler rally in the…

Not to minimize how bad Trump is, but it seems like going full Hitler is a fraught analogy. He seems more of a Berlusconi or one of the other Right Wing European billionaire heads of state to me. Trumps supporters are scary, but they're not a uniform wearing paramilitary organization fighting with communists in the…