Does anyone remember when Trump was asked if “transgenders” could use – what is the formulation here? – “the restroom that corresponds to their gender identity” – at Trump Tower?
It was pretty funny because Trump got this panicked look on his face. He didn’t know how to answer. Would you?
It was cringe-worthily funny when Trump had to pander to “Evangelicals.” When he was asked what his favorite book of the Bible is – who asks a question like that? – he answered “Two Corinthians.” Then, all the anti-Christian “atheists” and secular liberals made fun of him because everyone knows you say it “Second Corinthians” even though it’s written “2 Corinthians.”
Then that crowd logged on to reddit to complain bitterly how Trump has almost certainly never read the Bible and doesn’t believe any of that Christian stuff at all. But the Evangelicals are just so stupid they don’t realize that Trump is “tricking” them.
Then again, whenever I read Reddit on a religious topic, it’s pretty much directly equivalent to the kinds of things I remember from 9th grade religion class. It’s interesting to see Reddit struggling with very basic theology.
You see it when Reddit wets themselves over the Satanic Temple. One guy actually said it, “these Christians don’t realize that intelligent secular people are going to use their own religious freedom against them!”
Really? No Christian, especially not socially conservative Evangelicals, understand the concept of “allegory?” All Christians take the Bible “literally?”
So, let’s see. You build statues of “Satanic” gods, you consider abortion a sacrament, but when a Christian calls you a “Satanist” you haughtily respond, “it’s just an allegory?”
It reminds me of this reddit cut-and-paste troll, where the two friend start making gay jokes, just messing around, and then wind up blowing each other, but it’s not gay because they are just kidding around.
So, you call yourself a “Satanist” and your central religious ritual is the dismemberment and murder of an unborn child. But you’re not really Satanists, because to you it’s just an allegory.
OK. It’s just an allegory. “Spirit Cooking” is just ritualized cannibalism, not actual cannibalism. But the “clump of cells” is nevertheless a real biological entity.
Personally, I don’t put much stake in theology as a discipline, but if you are going to discuss it, you should at least be familiar with the last 2,000 years of theology. And … reddit atheists discuss theology A LOT. A surprising amount. Sometimes they don’t realize they are discussing theology, but nevertheless they discuss basic issues that have always been well understood by ninth grade Christian schoolboys.
To them, they always think they are discovering some great truths that no one else even thought of. It’s sort of like how every generation of teenagers thinks they discovered sex because sure, technically, their parents may have done it, but surely they didn’t enjoy it and didn’t do anything kinky.
Reminds me of watching redditors go into wild conniptions when they discovered “Christian Domestic Discipline.” I have to admit, if I ever feel churlish and want to make myself feel superior by laughing at idiots, Reddit is my go-to.
“Oh my GOD! These Evangelicals are so sexist and misogynist the husband, called the “Head”, actually SPANKS his wife? As in discipline? This is absolutely disgusting! What sweetie? You want to watch Handmaiden’s Tale again? Yes, I am also outraged by all the spanking scenes and imagery of women with slave collars at the sex clubs. Those Christians just don’t understand women!”
Just kidding – everyone knows that redditors don’t have girlfriends.
Personally, I’m not offended by the existence of homosexuals. I’m more offended by the “LGBT” lobby.
Steve Sailer has a funny gimmick he calls “Sailer’s Law of Female Journalism:”
The most heartfelt articles by female journalists tend to be demands that social values be overturned in order that, Come the Revolution, the journalist herself will be considered hotter-looking.
It’s a fact that plenty of guys like a fat girl. If a fat girl wants to feel beautiful, there are plenty of men out there that are into exactly her body type.
But that doesn’t mean she should complain that all the men who like those thin model types are somehow “bad” – nor that there is some sort of conspiracy to make thin women hot. Consider Mad Men; Christina Hendricks became a sex symbol precisely because she was spilling out all over the place in those tight dresses.
Under Trump, the US Empire has decided to stick its nose into the business of every other country on earth to demand the “legalization” of “homosexuality.”
What did Iran say? They said they don’t have any “gays” – and they are right. Sure, there is as much homosexuality in Iran as anywhere else, but no one is gay. Probably lots of those “men that have sex with other men” also have sex with women and even have children.
Because I’m a devil’s advocate, I once said, hey, why is the world divided in to “gay and straight?” People attracted to the opposite sex or the same sex? Why aren’t the categories monosexual vs. bisexual? Those who are only attracted to one sex vs. those who are attracted to both sexes?
Another funny one is “demisexual.” This is a thing. A “demisexual” is a woman who doesn’t really feel sexual attraction to a man until she has an emotional connection to him. In other words, most women.
There’s another one – sapisexual. That is a woman who is attracted to intelligent men. Because until the millennial generation, no women realized the attraction of intelligent men – oh no. Before 2010, women were only into big muscles.
What’s next? Heightosexuals? Those are women who are attracted to men who are taller than she is. Poor heightosexuals, women have faced such oppression just because of their sexual orientation. “I’m different than all the other girls. I’m only attracted to tall, intelligent men who are athletic, wealthy and good with women. What about meeee?”
It really shows the extreme narcissism of Western “liberals” that they demand the US use its military hard and soft power to go into each and every culture on earth to demand they do homosexuality the right way.
Every human being on the planet that either engaged in same-sex behavior, or even had a thought, MUST parade down the streets while cross-dressing, or else they are oppressed.
Gay men MUST commit to monogamous “marriage” where one is the “husband” and one is the “wife” otherwise, “oppression.”
Even the lesbians complained about this one. What about everyone’s favorite kind of lesbian, “lipstick lesbians?” All pretty lesbians, like Jody Foster (or Taylor Swift) must be attracted to a bulldyke? What about two pretty girls being attracted to each other?
Really, though, isn’t this an example of “telescopic charity?” Oh my god, there is some “same-sex attracted” tribesman somewhere in deepest, darkest Africa – quick, send in the Marines and some glitter body paint, they are doing homosexuality the wrong way!
All gay men are oppressed unless they can parade around the streets in their underwear, and all lesbians are oppressed if they like to wear make up and pretty dresses – the patriarchy brainwashed them to like that!
Frankly I couldn’t care less that Trump is “LGBT friendly.” All the serious Christians understand who the “Ruler of this World” is and real Christians, the ones who really understood the concept, would expect Caesar to be sexually perverse.
At the end of the day, what really defines a redditor is chronic masturbation to internet pornography. What happened when a bunch of teenage boys who had been jerking off to internet porn since before they even hit puberty decided to stop? “No Fap.” They wanted to stop jerking off, stop “consuming pornography” take control of their sexual drives and urges, and hopefully, get a real girlfriend, a “3-D waifu?”
What happened? They were called ‘anti-semites’ who ‘hated Jews’.
That right there should tell you something.
So that is why I’m far more offended by the Trump-tards waving around that Israeli flag than I am the “Lady MAGA Drag Queen.”
No Iranian ever called me a “nazi.”
Wait, are you a Christian? Why are you making a big fuss about muh’ “Satanists”? These supernatural entities are as real as the genders of a liberal – not at all.
Liberals exist in the first place as the logical conclusion of Christian dialectic – when you see the man as the aim and not as means towards an end, you’ll get abortion and homosexualism. Serving nothing communal is the worship of the individual and his “human rights”. Thus all this talk about “consent”. Thus racism, communalism, collectivism is the greatest evil, reality is the enemy, while feelings are paramount.
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@antinatalist
>muh’ “Satanists”?
Who is making a “big fuss?”
Are you offended by a blog post on a lightly trafficked free blog or something?
> when you see the man as the aim and not as means towards an end, you’ll get abortion and homosexualism. Serving nothing communal is the worship of the individual and his “human rights”. Thus all this talk about “consent”. Thus racism, communalism, collectivism is the greatest evil, reality is the enemy, while feelings are paramount.
Huh. That seems like a very confusing mish-mash of nonsense to me.
“Evil?” By why standard?
“Homosexualism” is caused by seeing “man as the aim and not as a means toward an end?”
“Serving nothing communal is the worship of the individual and his “human rights”?
You seem confused about basic philosophical categories.
Then again, as an “antinatalist” why would you care? Misanthropy is not a new thing, certainly.
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It was pretty funny because Trump got this panicked look on his face. He didn’t know how to answer. Would you?
As I remember it, he said they could use whatever bathroom they damned well liked.
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Then again, whenever I read Reddit on a religious topic, it’s pretty much directly equivalent to the kinds of things I remember from 9th grade religion class. It’s interesting to see Reddit struggling with very basic theology.
I was at a party once where I met two theology student – third year. So we talk about Genesis and one of them says, in passing, that Adam and Eve were prohibited from eating from the Tree of Life. “The Tree of Knowledge”, I correct him.
So for half an hour or so, I bicker with these two types and they simply won’t budge: the forbidden fruit was from the Tree of Life. Now, if they (both!) were just misremembering, I could’ve let it slide but if you don’t understand the difference, you don’t understand Genesis and you don’t understand Christianity.
I’m from Denmark, mind you, universities here are Commie indoctrination centers – they didn’t give a shit about the Bible, and they weren’t Christians themselves, they just wanted a cozy job with the state church, where they got to preach Marxism to a handful of old ladies once a week.
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@Felix Krull
Years ago on the old blog I was making a snarky comment about preachers, and one young college-age gal told a story about a friend of a friend she knew from the dorms. He was planning to take some two year theology course that would then get him a job in some church as a preacher.
She said, that he said, “I don’t believe in any of this stuff, but I’m an English major, and I’ll be god damned if I’m going to wait tables for a living. So I decided to become a preacher.”
I’m *just* old enough to remember when Christianity was still almost a major factor in American life. There were still preachers on TV, and the “Evangelicals” were a serious force in the politics of the Reagan/Bush administration.
But as of 2020, that culture is all but dead. The closest I’ve ever met was a guy I worked with that had gone to Harvard Divinity School – he said the only shot he had at going to an Ivy League school was via theology, since those theology departments are all but dead and gone now and need students.
He wound up becoming a computer programmer – a far more lucrative job than “minister.”
People – especially the redditor types – just have no idea of the history of these things. 100-200 years ago, in a small rural town on the frontier, the local minister was likely the only one who had any sort of liberal education, and maybe one of the few townsfolk who could read and write, and certainly the only one who had a library and read books.
So he functioned as sort of a “intellectual worker” for the town – not only would he do weddings and funerals, he would also help the townfolks with legal paperwork, represent them in the town council, and maybe even run the local school.
He had a serious function that was far more than just “religion.”
Frankly I’m not really big into the idea of “restoring Christianity” or anything – it’s just funny to see the young kids struggling with philosophical ideas that used to be commonly understood because AT LEAST the community had a sort of philosophy via religion.
Now – they have nothing.
Frankly, even Marxism would be a step up. At least Marxist class analysis has some substance to it. What I see on Reddit they are repeating Trotskyite talking points without having any idea who Trotksy was or what he did.
In 2020, “Antifa” uses Trotskyite ideas without really understanding it – which is probably the point, and why they are so useful to neo-liberalism.
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“Frankly, even Marxism would be a step up. At least Marxist class analysis has some substance to it”
The Frankfurt School talking point (long march, etc.) is true as far as it goes, but the one valuable thing about the Frankfurters was that they embodied the virtues of the old Germanic culture. They came from rich commercial families who made sure they received a solid classical education. Their “Marxism” was just window-dressing to express their hatred of their fathers (being Jews; see Freud or Bloom) and the rest of the bourgeoisie. Hence their focus on the critique of popular culture. Adorno, for example, hated pop songs and jazz (no “diversity” for him) from a background that included studying composition with Schoenberg no less. Marx was basically the same: his “materialism” was derived from Democritus, on whom he wrote his doctoral dissertation. See Jeffries’ Grand Hotel Abyss.
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I’m reading the Frankfurt School, and it’s bretty good.
None of these people who froth at the mouth over “Marxism” or “cultural marxism” have ever read anything, that much is obvious.
I was take those old German Jews over pretty much anyone today.
Sad.
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So I guess neither student had a little pocket Bible with him, nor did the household the party was being held at? Typical of the modern world.
My New Thought guru, Neville, had a absolute command of the Bible and could quote rings around any “preacher” or professor who tried to trip him up. He presented his teachings through admittedly rather eccentric interpretations of Scripture, and the thing is that this was because during the period — 1945 to late 60s — one could assume not only that one’s audience was at least nominally Christian (“I’m sure everyone here agrees that “With God all things are possible” for example) but were familiar with all but the most obscure passages.
The dispute over the Tree of Life is interesting because the Hebrew is somewhat ambiguous, Eve says God said “On that day you shall die” and the snake says “No, you shall not die” but it could be translated at “No, not ‘you shall die'”; Eve in fact misquotes God, and Satan corrects her (Jesus says the Devil can quote scripture for his own purpose) but in a way that could sound like “You shall not die.” At least it shows that the original command has already been forgotten and misremembered.
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Trump responds to BannedHipster post:
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