• becausechemistry@lemy.lol
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    I’d say the evangelical base won’t appreciate sex with teens but… given their track record they’ll probably say well actually sex with teens is just a-ok with us now

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      I’d have said the Evangelical base wouldn’t appreciate him having sex with porn stars either, but here we are

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        Or the groping, adultery, several divorces and remarriage, platforming kenneth copeland or flip flopping between being pro and anti abortion. Or him preaching works-based salvation recently.

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      They’re already influencing the idea with Megan Kelly. It’s amazing to me how they’ve moved the goalposts so far that the general populace are now becoming apologists for so many things they once vehemently condemned. I’m not talking politicians who are projecting. I’m talking regular folks that are allowing outside influence to convince them that abuse is ok. I was raised by bigots. I was taught inequality and mistrust as a child. Thankfully it was never outright hatred, but it could have easily gone there. But pedophilia, that was the vilest of vile, the atrocity that could not stand. Now those same family members would be of the group to most likely defend this, were they alive today.

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            God will judge them

            Matthew 7:21-23

            [21] “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. [22] On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ [23] And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’

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                The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds; there is none who does good.

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                    If only truth was so easy to dismiss so we can follow our own selfish desires…

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                  Fuck you and fuck this take. Theists don’t have a monopoly on the capacity to be charitable and a positive influence.

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                    But we do on rational charitability. You know what’s right and what’s wrong. You can believe in good and evil without believing in the same God who put it there. Just how someone can also believe the summer is especially warm without believing in man-made climate change.

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      They’ve started to distinguish between pedophiles and ephebophiles, just so they can continue to say that Trump isn’t a pedo.