I keep forgetting Andromeda was a thing, and then going "Oh yeah, that was him who ruined it, wasn't it?"

Oh of course he's on the Mel Gibson train (even if they'd both consider each other Hellbound heretics when it comes to what KIND of Christianity.) Figures.

Which is funny, because there are lines in the Bible about exactly that, which the Prosperity Gospel preachers manage to utterly ignore.

Yes. And the Babe movies.

Yep. There's an interview from last year where he's blaming his being socially ostracized on being a conservative, and without a hint of self-awareness, tells a story about how he was at a party going off on how everyone on welfare is lazy and it needs to be done away with (but he's not HEARTLESS, guys, he doesn't…

Or a breakfast meat pie, either.

Thanks! I like LOVE talking mythopoeics and ethics, but so often the discussions turn out to be the (slightly) more academic versions of the "BATMAN WOULD OBVIOUSLY WIN HE IS SMARTER THAN SUPERMAN UR STUPID" threads, whether it's literalist monotheists or Objectivist atheists or (less frequently but still out there)…

Yes, it's the reactionary bigotry that's the disappointment — if he was a Dorothy Day or Jimmy Carter type of Christian we'd be impressed (and it would be just as bad if he were a Pat Condell or Sam Harris type of atheist).

TMI, dude!

But Sorbo turned out to have been a Kirk Cameron type, out there insulting atheists and other religions on Twitter.

Even the insightful ones seem to increasingly play up their most annoying persona aspects and framing devices until you just want to fast-forward to the meat of the review.

It's the same as when dozens or hundreds of people in the community chip together to help a family in need, with food or medical bills or building them a new house after a disaster — and the recipients say "God Did It All!" so they don't have to be grateful to mere mortals for taking care of them. The Duggars were…

Agreed on all points. What I wonder is, is he just doing it for the money, or is he a True Believer like Kevin Sorbo, these days?

Liberal Evangelical critic Fred Clark has pointed out many times that if you try to be a "literalist" you pretty much are forced to constantly retcon and create new exceptions/explanations for things that don't work, whereas if you accept that Scripture is a collection of different types of literature, filled with…

One of the things that has been pointed out in a couple of places is that there is almost a hint of Divine Intervention in the sandstorm that rises fortuitously — but again, it isn't any sort of heavy-handed THIS IS A MIRACLE DAMMIT YOU BETTER BELIEVE!!! ex machina, it's a fortuitous natural phenomenon that has a…

"Oh, wait — I first thought this movie had terrible acting, low production values, and was edited with a Cuisinart, but now that it's more than doubled its budget at the box office, I have to give it four stars!"

Which is funny because Gibson is one of those "more Catholic than the Pope" breakaway conservatives!

You should end a question with a question mark if you want to be taken seriously (or even simply understood more easily.)

People always assume that the line in the Gospel about "who's married to whom after five remarriages?" that goes "For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels who are in heaven" means No Sex, but that's not backed by the text — nowhere in the Bible does…

There are even charitable organizations that only exist to funnel money to the people running them — there was recently a scandal about one such that claimed to provide support for cancer sufferers in the US, but was only a money laundering facility for the family in charge of it.