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21 Aug, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Went for a walk. See if you can spot the point where I ran into the fetus cultists protesting outside the Planned Parenthood. A screen capture of my hear...
@paulcarp13 and I donated to Planned Parenthood in honor of these guys Image
These people had that glassy-eyed "important parts of my brain are not functioning right now" affect that we expect from cult members.
I never confront them very well because I get too upset, but they were also very... simple with their arguments. Like they had maybe three slogans they just kept repeating.
@paulcarp13 went back to hold up a "DONATE" sign next to them, eventually there was a conflict (with a completely different guy) and the cops were called
Apparently WE were the ones harassing THEM.

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McJulie is a centrist, not a leftist, I'm serious Profile picture
23 Aug
Oh, great, it’s another one of those “exvangelicals are so boring that I don’t really want to try to figure them out, so I’ll just trash-talk them from a place of complete ignorance” takes
There’s like a whole subculture of still-evangelicals who seem to think “Well, *I* examined my own religion & decided to stick with it, therefore this is obviously the only true, correct & sincere outcome.”
In one exceptionally wordy paragraph he credits "David Bentley Hart’s The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss—a bravado defense of classical theism" for putting him "back on track" --
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22 Aug
I snorted coffee all over my keyboard, this thread is dangerous
(LOTR nerdery warning)
SINCE the book we know as "The Lord of the Rings" is written with the meta-narrative that it's the hobbit's own account of their activities related to the War of the Ring, translated into modern English --
It's ENTIRELY POSSIBLE that a different translator could go back to the original material, think "ugh, those fucking Victorians took out all the gayness and swearing, also, they interpreted every gender-ambiguous character as male" and PUT IT ALL BACK
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22 Aug
True. It was the theology and worldview that hurt me, I was never "hurt by the church" in any other way.
And Mark Driscoll is a very revealing piece of that: would you trust any theology that didn't instantly reveal Mark Driscoll to be a misogynistic piece of shit?

Or Paul (1 Corinthians Paul) for that matter.
Which reminds me, I was talking about the incident described here with a friend who's training as a therapist:
gothhouse.org/blog/territori…
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5 Jun
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On a side note, the very first thing we were given to analyze in our AP lit class, start of senior year, was The Metamorphosis. I think it was supposed to make analyzing everything else seem easy in comparison? I dunno, it was one of my favorite things we read that year.
One of the challenges of scholastic literary analysis is that "because it's funny" is rarely considered an acceptable answer to the question "why did the author put that in there?"
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5 Jun
I tossed this off as a joke, mostly, but ever since then I've been thinking "what ARE the evangelical weak spots and how can we use them?"
The first evangelical weak spot that popped into my head was "extremely gullible." They're prone to snake oil, pyramid schemes, wacked-out conspiracy theories, plus grift and fraud of all kinds.

Can we use that against them?
And that presents a problem. Because, yes, if you just want to drain them of money, you can probably use the "extremely gullible" weakness to do it, but that probably doesn't lessen their political power in any meaningful way.
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5 Jun
I don't know what I should have done differently @paulcarp13 dropped me off at yoga on Capitol Hill at 4:45 and realized he didn't have his phone, we made an arrangement: "if I go home I'll text you, otherwise I'll be at Optimism Brewing when yoga gets out at 6:30" Then --
At 6:30 I went to Optimism and couldn't find him. I stayed there through one beer, then used the restroom & did one final sweep through the restaurant, assumed he must have gone home after all? Took the bus home.
By the time I got here it was 8:30 and of course he wasn't here, the car wasn't here, but his phone is still here.

So I thought, what am I supposed to do at this point? Go BACK to Capitol Hill? But that would take me at least an hour and he's the one with the car.
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