Slapping the word ‘religion’ in front of an unreasonable, anti-social, or delusional behavior doesn’t magically make it okay. If you -have- to wear a face mask then you’d better respect someone else who -has- to be naked. Or - how about this - both Ms. Mask and Mr. Naked comply with societal norms when they are in…

There’s a difference between clothing (functional) and fashion accessories (expressive). Public school is a valid place to make that distinction.

It’s almost as though the picture was chosen (or was left up even after being pointed out) deliberately to incite a higher degree of misguided outrage from the readership. Hmm.

Your fairly well-reasoned comment is going to be immensely unpopular with the readership of this blog, many of whom hold and will vehemently defend a number of flagrant double standards regarding human behavior and societal structure.

‘progress’ on these issues is dependent on the decline of religion. Less religion = fewer religious rules = fewer people discriminating against one another for arbitrary reasons.

You’ve hit on a notion fundamental to much of Europe — that the individual belongs to the State.

“Surely Allah has cursed the unbelievers (Jews, Christians and followers of other faiths) and has prepared for them a burning fire”

I just mentioned this to my coworkers. One said “well, that’s just because there’s more money now!” I said, yeah, for the elite class. The real purchasing power of average working-class wages has been pretty stagnant. He shrugged and said “well, I’m richer now than I ever thought I’d be. Oh well.”

You know how they say “youth is wasted on the young”?

You can also spot cultists by the way they habitually murmur nonsensical phrases to an imaginary entity from one of a number of storybooks fabricated by primitive tribesmen during the Bronze Age.

An old, crazy-looking man with wild eyes and a scraggly beard followed by half a dozen blank-faced underage girls holding small babies and numbly reciting phrases about ‘God’s will’ isn’t suspicious to you? Remind me not to vote for you at the ‘neighborhood watch’ election next month.

I don’t think bearded men in black hats driving horse-drawn carts full of their child sex slaves would make it too long in Florida. Just a hunch.

Fundamental Christians: “Abortion is a sin!”

With luck, the girls can still get a shot at being raised properly and successfully introduced to the real world, out from under the shadow of their parents’ harmful, persistent delusion.

Correcting someone on usage of a word isn’t ‘mansplaining’. Unless you women are all guilty of ‘mansplaining’ every time you say “it’s not foundation, it’s concealer”.

I live in Australia now and it’s true — when you see the ‘right vs left’ debate in a first world nation that isn’t USA, it makes you realize just how far to the right our ‘left’ really is. On issues of healthcare, education, civic infrastructure, even foreign policy / military, the Auzzies, Brits, Canadians, Europe,…

Haha, well if it’s in regular usage for your family then that’s legit. My bad.

A ceramic non-stick stainless skillet works in the oven / on the stove, is durable and scratch resistant, can be washed with soap and a scrubber, and can be found in the same price ranges as cast iron or stainless skillets. No salt paste, no seasoning, and non flaking / scratching like synthetic nonstick surfaces…

And he’s well-endowed. Probably excellent at Spades, too.

My old DM from the states made his own website with character / item tracking, forums, wiki pages, and custom rules / item properties. It supports distinct gaming groups with their own forums, administrators and permissions. So far it’s just a ‘friends and family’ kind of thing but it’s amazing. I always wondered why…