And Macron doesn’t just go towards Angela first, they hold each other in a warm greeting and exchange kisses. Their bond is real, Donald. France and Germany are best friends and YOU CAN’T SIT WITH THEM.

Can’t believe the author dragged race into this discussion of a movie about a blackface poster!

This isn’t the same thing, but I had a couple talk to me a whole night on the anniversary of a friend’s death at a party in his honor at his parent’s house. I thought we were making genuine connections as people, and then later he and his wife tossed out the have you been saved line. I really felt taken advantage…

To me, part of the issue with the poster is the denial of racism, not just anti-PC claims (although that too). That’s what Enid and the art teacher don’t get, but why Seymour said he kept it, because it reminded him that it’s the same as it was in the past but that people just try to be more secret about it. Enid is a…

I had a similar experience, though it was in junior high in small town Georgia. I was at a “friend’s” sleepover (i was a v shy kid, clung to whatever sad excuse for a friendship was around), and for some reason, someone decided it was a cool idea to go around and say how old we thought the Earth was (in hindsight, I’m…

KATE WHAT ABOUT AMANDLA

I would love to hear a recounting of when they tried to convert you

People give Catholics in America shit because of the molesting priests but, Protestants in America can be far FAR more weird in the shit they come up with.

I’ve thought about inventing a toy/game for kids where they build an Ark and then fill it with animals. The kick is that the toy animals are correctly to scale, and there are a LOT of them. I thought it would be funny if it were a mail-order toy, so they get the ark first and some of the basic animals (lion, giraffe,…

I also came from a Catholic upbringing and went to a liberal college. I was totally unprepared for Campus Crusade for Christ! I was also “befriended” by one of them, but when she asked to meet me after Spanish class to talk about Jesus, I brought two atheist friends along, and they tore her to pieces. I felt bad for…

Telling them I’m Catholic usually did two things: 1. Made them sure I was going to hell and 2. Made them give up on trying to convert me. Apparently we are difficult to convert.

Jesus Christ, we are so fucked if people in an industrial country still greet the world in the morning with these beliefs.

I was raised Catholic. Went to a school that was Catholic but open to everyone and also a good school, so it also had a bunch of wealthy mainline Protestants, some African-American Baptists, a few rather secular children of rock musicians, the occasional Jewish student, etc.

Yeah, fellow person raised Catholic - first time I heard that Evangelical nonsense I had the same reaction. Thought it was a joke then was filled with horror when I realised they were serious and noped it right outta there. Still weirds me out that Catholic are progressive compared to some other Christians...

I maintain they think Catholics are a soft target, so to speak. They never mentioned any of the really weird shit to our atheist/agnostic friends, but I guess they figured I’d be a more receptive audience (nope! But my default setting is to be polite when startled, which in retrospect may have given them false hope -…

The first exposure is shocking, right? I am also from a very Irish Catholic area, and I actually laughed in the face of the first few evangelicals that I met.

I grew up in an an area that was heavily Catholic (mostly second and third generation Irish, Italian, and Polish), so I didn’t encounter any evangelical Christians until I went away to college (oddly, an extremely liberal college in an extremely liberal city), where I became friendly with a few evangelical girls. I…

Also, this guy thinks that social security should be abolished because Noah lived to be 600 years old & never sucked from the government teat so we shouldn’t either.

You can have a felony and serve in Congress, if they decide that they like you. So, yeah - the likelihood of the GOP kicking out anyone with a felony is super-duper-fucking-low right now.

Don’t forgive the early voters; he was still a creationist who believes that dinosaurs died in the Noah’s Ark flood :/