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@LauraRbnsn
Jul 24 • 8 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
First, this story is horrible.
Second, I think what's even stranger about Trump is that in Trump's case, people usually have to repent on his behalf.
Trump can't actually bring himself to say "I did something awful but Jesus forgives me," so someone like Franklin Graham
has to go out and say "Trump did something awful but he's so incredibly sorry and has asked Jesus for healing and cleansing." Then Trump strenuously denies he ever did such a thing if he's ever asked about it.
This has happened like nine times.
And, it's more than enough for MAGA
Christians.
I guarantee you, even if rock-solid evidence came out that Trump was 100 percent a child trafficker and you simply cannot deny it, this will be the response.
1) Trump constantly denies it
2) MAGA believes him
3) One of Trump's religious fixers will, if there's
significant pressure, emphasize that Trump is deeply repentant for the sex crimes against children he's strenuously denying, and anyone who wasn't persuaded by the denial will be persuaded by the repentance they can demonstrably see didn't actually occur.
*They don't actually believe anything.*
American rightwing Christianity is a thoroughly relativist movement. There are no actual convictions or beliefs here or even a clear distinction between true and false. You can show them a video of Trump saying a curse word, ask those
those people, "Did Trump curse in that video?" and they will look you dead in the eye and say "No."
This is a fundamentally sub-rational religious and political movement.
We've already seen this with Roy Moore! You literally had pastors who used "pedo" as a slur against Democrats standing up and telling their congregations that in Bible times men had sex with little girls and so it's not that bad!
That 100 percent happened! This is not a religion
where anything is wrong or right! No one actually cares if Trump abused children or not because no one who loves Trump thinks child rape is *actually wrong* in all circumstances! It just depends on the rapist!

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Jul 22
Off the top of my head, here's a list of ideas in Eddington that Eddington is 100 percent right about.
1) Some people who think they aren't racist, are racist and just haven't thought about it yet (A number of supposedly enlightened characters are incredibly quick to blame the
town's only black guy for a murder.)
2) People who are more interested in personal gain than their convictions are extremely easy to draw into and out of ideological movements (Brian goes from performative protestor to right wing politician).
3) More societal change is driven by
the lust for money than right wing or left wing ideas and it's surprisingly easy to get people to ignore it, and corporations will hide between whatever idea gets them there first (Solidgoldmagikarp wins the whole thing, with its leaders sometimes pretending to be BLM activists
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Jul 20
Another thing about the Mary-Joseph thing as I'm blogging about it.
One of the arguments I've also seen flying around is that men would usually be older than their wives in the ancient world, so the idea of Joseph being an old/older man is historically plausible.
1) Sort of.
The pattern of girls marrying men ten-fifteen years older than them tended to be more of an urban phenomenon. In rural areas, though, wives and kids are workers. There's not really a normal rural channel to go work into your 30s and save up for a house so you can take
care of a wife and kids.
Having kids is an economic benefit in rural economies, not a debit. There's good financial reason to start early.
2) This is uncomfortable but I'm just gonna say it.
Men don't marry girls so that they can be fatherly protectors to them.
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Jul 19
So, real quick, here's a list of things that are never stated in the Bible but often assumed when it comes to the "Jesus's siblings were all older half-siblings from Joseph's first marriage" thing.
1) "Joseph was much older than Mary." No. No ages are given of either Mary or
Joseph, though Mary was probably in her teens if this was her first marriage. He doesn't appear in sequences in later part of Jesus's life where Mary appears, which has led to some speculation that he was dead. If he was dead, though, this doesn't mean he died in his 80s.
The first century had a lot of things that could, and did, kill men in their prime -- accidents, weather, illness, bandits, etc.
2) "Your translation says 'brother' but the word in Greek means 'cousins' or 'half brothers.'"
I don't know of any instance where ἀδελφός is used
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Jul 12
Yeah so Trump is all over these and is extremely incriminated. If his story is that the records were made by his enemies and we need to all move on, then I think it's pretty straightforward what's in there.
Why didn't Biden release it? Same reason Biden didn't fire Garland - the Image
sense that the civil, decent thing to do, which the voters want to see, is everyone getting along. And, almost certainly some people personally close to that administration were also implicated/other favors were called in (Clinton, Andrew, maybe Gates.)
If I had to guess, most people in power had quietly agreed among themselves to a kind of devil's bargain/gentleman's agreement that if you don't use it on us, we won't use it on you. Patel is actually a true believer and didn't realize that Q Anon isn't real and that
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Jul 1
Couldn't get all these comments in one screenshot so unfortunately I'm just retweeting this guy.
Anyway - a few years ago when I reviewed Beautiful Union, one thing I kept running into is the fact that the agricultural metaphor for human reproduction isn't just biologically
wrong, it's that it actually does some really particular work to devalue motherhood -- and in fact, when you look at early Greek texts, this is ALWAYS how it functions. (One seed v two seed theories, look it up).
The one-seed agricultural metaphor posits that sperm is like a
seed and the uterus is like soil (the egg cell is even invisible in modern iterations of this metaphor, even though we literally know it's there now). Therefore, the real work of reproduction is done by men, in the same way that a farmer plants crops, but soil is inert.
So let's
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Jun 21
I keep thinking about those studies like "65 percent of women under 30 are depressed" or "70 percent of college students are depressed" and I keep thinking there actually has to be some element of privilege there because everyone I know knows someone who would be called
"depressed" if they were a white woman.
"Depression" is a state of affairs where you actually can pursue treatment options or talk about how you're feeling to manage your symptoms.
For guys who barely made it through high school and sit at home all day because there's no
point in working, we call them leeches.
Every teacher I know has at least one parent who never gets the kids to school on time and doesn't work and doesn't manage their kids' homework. We call them depressed if they're thin white women. Everyone else is called a bad mom.
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