What about the free will of victims? I wouldn't worship a God who allows abusers to take another's free will away even if this being could be proven to exist. And is free will worth the unfathomable amounts of gratuitous suffering that's gone on and is still going on? I'm really not sure it is, man.

Isn't the controversy around Christian teaching something of a self-fulfilling prophecy? There's a lot in the New Testament about being hated by the world for following Jesus. What many Christians seem to have taken away from this particular teaching is that if people aren't angry at them they must be doing something…

It does raise questions for me. Like, why couldn't an omnipotent deity help his created beings understand maybe a little earlier that stoning people and taking the women and children of conquered nations as slaves was wrong? Think of how much suffering that would've prevented.

I'm with you on everything but the gospels—I think they, and the character of Jesus in particular, are VERY complicated. Some of Jesus' parables are really quite dark—I mean, people get killed, cast into Gehenna, all that shit. He talked about coming back with a sword and separating families. He put demons into pigs,…

This is a good point. I also think it applies to Muslims. When people ask, "Where are the moderate Muslims?" they should be asking the cable news networks.

I think Christianity has earned the distrust and suspicion. Still, there's no excuse for being shitty to someone just because they believe differently than you.

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I didn't watch it, but my mom did. She had no idea it was a parody or that its stars were comic actors, but she did enjoy the movie.

I'll second Dreamcatcher. That was a very funny episode.

I'd rank Admiral Fell Promises over Benji, but I may be in the minority. I think Admiral features his sweetest and most inventive guitar work, and I much prefer his older lyrical style to the stream-of-consciousness thing he's been doing the last few years.

I had the biggest crush on Quistis. Squall was a real dumbass.

I'm just grateful you didn't do the Greg Ginn.

This would make a great Sun Kil Moon song.

To me the essential feature of the song is the drumming, which elevates it from a mediocre song into a good one, in my opinion. Jimmy Chamberlin is an absolute monster of a player, and all of his considerable finesse and power is on display in this track.

I watched the whole series when it was on Amazon Prime. The subtitles credited the theme song as "Remember Me As A Time of Day" for every single episode.

I still wish Coach was my dad. I will always wish Coach was my dad.

It seems like from listening to podcasts that therapy has become the official religion of Los Angeles. It's the answer to fucking everything. If I paid the kind of money they do for therapy I'm sure I'd talk myself into thinking it was solving all my problems too. Just like religious people talk themselves into…

One of the reasons I like Persona 3 better playing as the female main character in the PSP version is that you can have one dude be your boyfriend and then just be good pals with the rest of the guys on the team. I really love the characters in the game and I feel it cheapens the experience a bit to just roll through…

I'm such a people-pleaser I can't even be mean to fictional characters, and so I've never seen some of the content from my favorite games like ME3 and Fallout New Vegas that you can only access by going Renegade or racking up Bad Karma.

I feel there's a difference in that all the elements present in the BSG finale were there all along. Though I don't hate ME3's ending, the techno-mysticism it brought in didn't really fit the tone of the series for me.