I think she was shocked because Christianity, depending on where you live, has numerous examples of them using their religion to abuse, spread hatred, and control people. Its well known and there are many stories of such acts that get a fair share of publicity.

When I was younger and was searching for a religion that spoke to me I stumbled upon Wicca and read as many books on it as I could find. If there was any religion that could called overwhelmingly positive I’d say Wicca comes closer than any other one I’ve researched.

So, what is your point? I agree with you when you say there are assholes in every group, but Dancer was conflicted about something that she seemed genuinely concerned about and how it may influence people’s opinions about Jews in a time when Jewish people seems to be under siege by bigots. Dancer wanted to relate her…

Damn straight! Just give me some sauteed mushrooms and/or onions and maybe a few shrimp on the side and I’m good to go. The only thing I’ll ever dip a good steak into is mashed potatoes, especially if they are garlicky.

Same here. I missed it at first because my DVR cut off the end of the Oscars, but reading about it the next day I’d say they handled it about as well as anyone could hope to in that situation. If I was there you’d have seen me mouth an enthusiastic “FUCK!” In the background. I guess the blow was softened by the…

Hah, I need to read that. I haven’t read any Plato since my philosophy courses in college. I miss those courses, very fun and interesting.

Well everyone knows that being under control of a religious leader makes for a great learning environment. It’s so easy to focus on learning if you are told who to associate with and when (to keep you from being distracted by social pressures). You also don’t need to worry about thinking about the larger questions…

That’s true. I’ve lived in southern Texas my whole life with the majority of that time being in a small rural town with way too many Baptists churches for the size of the town. I’ve seen them use their religion as a cudgel to intimidate, harass, condemn, or justify immoral or hypocritical behavior. And these things…

Yeah, and rightly so at the time, but looking to those people to answer the questions of our time is pretty dumb. I’ll take morality lessons from the stories but that’s where the line should be drawn.

Don’t ever change. We’re all friends here. No reason to be overly formal.

Damn, I walked into that one. HAHAHA.

Yeah, doesn’t it say in the Bible to “Spare the rod...and pummel the child. I get more pleasure out of it if I use my fists.”

I used to have a huge chip on my shoulder about Christianity, but have scaled back a lot as I have gotten older. But when I see shit like this I’m for bring back burning people at the stake. After all, that’s a Christian practice for dealing with those that “God hated”, and I’m pretty sure that if God/Jesus exists…

Yeah, but they get a pass because Jesus.

Well, that’s the logic of treating Muslims like shit because of a few extremist and/or terrorists.The amount of people that fall into that category are less than half a percent, and you are more likely in the US to be murdered or victimized by a Christian that you ever would by a Muslim is also conveniently forgotten.

I’ve said the same thing for years. You’re disregarding the word of scientists and taking your beliefs on how the world works from people 1000-4000 years ago, and they didn’t know shit. You wouldn’t ask an Amish person to build you a supercomputer, right?

Yeah, that’s a good point. You wouldn’t want him to have any unfair advantage. You’d have to monitor it the same way you would any other performance enhancing drugs.

HAH! Same here. God, those were good times. I heard he moved to Wonkette but I didn’t see it. I should check again because I checked right after he left here.

And even that wouldn’t help if he was worried about the wait staff tampering with it. You spit or put pubes on it AFTER it’s cooked and plated. You don’t want to risk your job for nothing, because you have to make sure that fucker eats whatever unholy shit you ruin his meal with.

Same. Jesus, I can’t think of any kind of meat I would put ketchup on. Maybe...m.a.y.b.e. meatloaf.