I’ve never really understood the Pratt love. I liked him all right in P&R, but to me he always looked like a very usual good looking dude, and seemed very, very dim. To quote an old, favorite Frasier episode when Niles had a cockatoo that kept quoting terrible things at the wrong time “Cute but stupid!”

“all nations” was meant to mean the nations of Israel. The world was very small to Christ.

Hold onto the fact that Nick Offerman is a stonecold fucking badass and pretty neat dude in real life and let that make up for this supreme let down. That’s what I do.

I think the idea of introducing the Gospels later in life is a really good one. Coming to a sacred text without prior indoctrination is a powerful experience many of us will never be able to have (Willow Wilson writes about it beautifully in The Butterfly Mosque, and it did a lot to change the way I think about how…

“insofar as EVERYTHING in the Bible is garbled as a result of the same process”. Along with the sociopolitical objectives of the people who paid for the translations. The Bible is at best a collection of allegorical moral fables collected and edited by political rulers in order to systematize the oppression of their…

I plan to at some point make sure that my children are at least familiar with the first three Gospels. But I honestly think I want to do it after I’ve introduced them to works like Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter.

And by “Manners” I assume she means towards people of their own class. Doesn’t apply to peasants.

Rapidly descending to the level of Chris Christie, MY least favorite Chris.

Hear hear, from an ex-evangelical. Stay away from that shit.

I think we’ve arrived at the same place, post-nutter. My big thing is these people who say God is infinite and then proceed to put the notion of infinity into a box tiny enough for their mortal brains to comprehend. I respond by saying God gave me this intellect, and my intellect tells me that putting boundaries on…

You seem to miss the point, which is, keep that shit, whatever your beliefs are, to yourself. Some don’t, and I find it annoying.

The Daniel Fast is basically Veganism (if you want to describe it in religious terms, it’s basically identical to Eastern Orthodoxy-style Lenten fasting: no meat, oil, alcohol, wine, caffeine, eggs/milk and minimal processed foods).

I think Anna Faris is thanking her lucky stars she escaped this shitshow. 

He is giving me real ‘Tom Cruise as the face of Scientology’ vibes with this stuff. Same with the Biebs. I’m wondering if they have some handlers influencing this sudden public display. 

Polo

I shit on horse racing as the ultimate shitty white person sport

I dispute it. Whether or not it’s easier depends on how accommodating the dictator is (your analogy posits an obstreperous democratic society, but not its analogue in dictatorship). Just ask foxconn how much it sucks to deal with a pain in the ass dictator. They thought they had it made with nice, accommodating scott…

I think your heart might be in the right place but your understanding of racism and how it’s wielded might need some work as is the case with most of us.

OF COURSE it is easier to deal with dictators. If you are going to go to a government and say “Hey, we need a billion dollars worth of construction contracts funneled to our buddies, a hundred million dollars in our pockets, and a whole bunch of free underage hookers and a train load of cocaine every time we enter the…

FIS has always been shitty.  Doesn’t make the sport itself shitty.