I'm not sure I agree it's done no good but I sympathize with your exhaustion.

Maybe? I agree that we should get involved. But that doesn't mean that aggressively confronting things isn't effective too, in its own way. It just seems to me that if Obama can't "fix racism" by being president, probably no one getting into office is going to do that. It takes face to face discussion, and, in my…

Like President of the country? Maybe that would open some honest dialogue.

Well, I'm 33 and have three (very young) kids. I'd say I'd admire your restraint.

I doubt you're older than me, and I think Lemonade is a masterpiece. Listening is a no-lose proposition: if you like it, great. If you don't, you get to complain about kids these days.

Beyonce is basically Jason Mraz.

If I may, I recommend checking out Water to Wine by Brian Zahnd and The Bible Tells Me So by Pete Enns. Both fantastic, Christian writers who are about as far from fundamentalists as you get. They have helped me crystallize a lot of what I do believe and to restructure my Christian life around the teachings of Christ.…

Not that I expect anyone to read it, but N.T. Wright (hardly a fundamentalist) makes a very strong (1700pp!) case that there's continuity between Paul and Jesus and that the issue is the way moderns interpret Paul. Which, there are plenty of issues with how we interpret Jesus too, so that's not exactly surprising.

That's only in Romans anyway, just a few verses. Homosexuality is touched on so lightly in the Bible in general (once in Leviticus, once in Paul) that it's somewhat difficult to make a case against it on those grounds.

Hey, watch it. If that's true, where does that leave us anti-Semites?

Incisive.

Actually, outside of the Levitical Law, the Bible, OT and NT, don't give much in the way of guidelines for specific things to do or not do. It's a lot more focused on stuff in line with the Sermon on the Mount (Blessed are the meek…, etc). Not that modern (conservative/fundamentalist) Christianity has really gotten…

In before me. RHE is pretty great in general. And she's actually a Christian (not that I object to Jacob's book—I read some of it and it was pretty funny).

Tough call, since the OT doesn't seem to say much about eternal life. I don't feel like looking it up, but it might refer to execution—a lot of those things were punishable by death in Levitical law.

My view, represented on AVC. Will wonders never cease.

No kidding. With her, it actually happened because she commented on a news article not even on her page. It's crazy.

My favorite thing about Ms. Marvel is that it feels a lot like 60s Spider-Man to me. The character feels so natural and it's genuinely funny in a quippy way.

I like AVC's comics coverage. It's the best I've found. But when it comes to Marvel v DC, they pick a side and stick with it. If you look pre-Rebirth, everything Marvel was doing was fantastic and everything DC was doing sucked. I don't know why that is but I've watched the pendulum swing a couple times in my time…

She was no Gambit or Magyk.

Ugh.