• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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      Oh good. I don’t have to worry about Dolly Parton, or Mr Rodgers.

      I feel like my world view would be crushed if I ever saw a legitimate claim against either of them.

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    I had a “Christian” ask me why I don’t rape and kill people if I don’t believe in god……I said “because I don’t want to to do anything like that and if this world is the only world wouldn’t I want to make it as good as possible starting with my own actions” I think about that conversation a lot lately and it is deeply concerning

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      I had a flipped conversation. Working IT, late at a client’s office, the secretary (we knew each other well enough) stated that without the Bible we couldn’t know right from wrong.

      “Um, I don’t need religion to tell me rape and murder is wrong. Do you? I mean, think on that, did you have to be told?”

      I’m sure I got a bit of that wrong, but that was the gist of it, and it was that short. She sat back in her chair and stared at me a minute. One of those oh-so-rare times in life when you hit someone with a brand new thought. Love to see it, love to experience it!

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    Anyone surprised by this? The people screaming about immorality are ALWAYS those engaged deepest in it.

  • selkiesidhe@sh.itjust.works
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    Gateway to pedophilia.

    Gateway to childhood trauma.

    And ofc the Pedo-in-Chief protects his own ilk (until he needs to trash them to make himself look good or to keep himself out of trouble)

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    That’s more time than you get for trying to overthrow the US government. Criminals gonna crime.

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    Was this the one that said it happened a long time ago and everyone prayed about it? I didn’t realize he had the largest church in America.

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    It’s so well known and pervasive I can ask my conservative ‘friend’ “what do you think the founder of Gateway just pleaded guilty to?” And with no prior knowledge he knows what he did and can become defensive.

    I almost wanted to do a switch too and tell him he actually pleaded guilty of fraud.

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    ah, another one

    Very curious that statistics don’t seem to matter when it comes to white men sexually abusing children, or gun violence