One point that Leah Remini has made is that Scientologists are pretty much disallowed from consuming popular media. I doubt that very many practicing Scientologists have seen her show, unfortunately...

Cult is more or less a subset of religion.

I am also constantly pulling my husband’s hood out of his jacket (we live in the bay area, layers are a necessity). Sometimes if he’s in a weird mood, he get’s SUPER annoyed when i go to pluck the hood out for him and kind of snaps at me. What if 45 did that (or worse) to Melania every time she tried to point these…

and also a tale as old as time, unfortunately.

In my experience, catholic schools are just atheist factories. Which is cool by me, I *heart* atheism and all, but it doesn’t seem like kids who went to catholic school particularly liked their experience....

okay, sorry to have piled on. It’s just that the comment you replied to originally was specifically talking about “efforts to quiet” a crying/screaming child. That’s fairly unrelated to MBP.

... doesn’t sound like MBP at all

His answer was certainly far more misleading and false (and consequential) than Bill’s “I did not have sexual relations with that woman.”

Ugh. Bannon might be too gross to map to a character.

Sorry. I don’t buy it.

... mkay...

OF FUCKING COURSE SHE IS

I dunno... Kellyanne might be Gangy.

consistently high levels of cortisol can wreak havoc on one’s body. It is no bueno. Pretty soon the DSM will have to add in “New York Times Alert Stress Syndrome.”

True, but there’s the whole capsaicin for arthritis thing. Don’t know if *that* has evidence behind it either, but in a similar vein.

I mean, full disclosure, I believe them to be false. I’m an atheist. I just recognize that “proving” that god doesn’t exist isn’t quite attainable.

my eyes rolled back in my head pretty far when I read that. Jesus.

...

Aaaand it’s right out of the sexual harasser’s playbook. Where’s everyone’s apologist bingo cards?

GOD seriously. Women/POC are expected to be perfection. White men get away with murder. Literally.