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raison de arizona wrote: Fri Feb 23, 2024 3:01 pm Kenneth Copeland
https://twitter.com/gtconway3d/status/1 ... 68708?s=20
George Conway @gtconway3d wrote: This interview by @4lisaguerrero for @InsideEdition is truly amazing.
I think that Inside Edition interview is not current. I remember it from years ago.
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neonzx wrote: Fri Feb 23, 2024 3:17 pm
I think that Inside Edition interview is not current. I remember it from years ago.
2019...
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He's got the answers to ease my curiosity, He dreamed a god up and called it Christianity"

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Noted, and docking George Conway's credibility a suitable amount.
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Taking a bit of liberty with the subject...

Mormons Speak @mormons_speak wrote: The #LDS insurance provider is refusing to pay sex abuse claims against the @Ch_JesusChrist. The insurance company says the Church negligently caused abuse by failing "to report a reasonable suspicion of child sexual abuse" and "to supervise and train clergy."
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Does this mean the LDS church itself will be on the hook?
But the sunshine aye shall light the sky,
As round and round we run;
And the truth shall ever come uppermost,
And justice shall be done.

- Charles Mackay, "Eternal Justice"
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There's no LDS clergy. They are all laymen. Every man becomes part of the priesthood. Every man is eligible to become part of the leadership. And if they navigate the internal politics of the church well enough, they can rise within it.
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Piety and Profanity: The Raunchy Christians Are Here
In the Trump era, a surprising number of evangelicals are rejecting modesty and turning toward the risqué.


https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/17/us/e ... 595e2e6e66

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The “Conservative Dad’s Real Women of America” 2024 pinup calendar features old-school images of sexiness — bikinis, a red sports car, a bubble bath.

The models are influencers and aspiring politicians familiar to the very online pro-Trump right. In one image, a BlazeTV host in a short skirt lights a copy of The New York Times on fire with a cigar. Another model, the former N.R.A. spokeswoman Dana Loesch, hoists two rifles.

Published by a “woke-free beer” company hastily launched last year as an alternative to Bud Light, the calendar was clearly meant to provoke liberals. But when photos of it began circulating online in December, progressives did not pay much attention. Instead, it sparked a heated squabble on the right over whether “conservative dads” who happen to be Christians should reject the calendar on moral grounds, or embrace it as an irreverent win for the good guys.

Allie Beth Stuckey, an evangelical commentator and podcaster, condemned the calendar as “soft porn” marketed to married men, and saw it as proof of growing polarization between Christian and secular conservatism. Other prominent Christian conservatives joined her in expressing their disgust.

But the calendar itself suggested that Christian and secular conservatism are not exactly as distinct as Ms. Stuckey and others might wish. The calendar’s cover model, Riley Gaines, a former college swimmer and activist against transgender women’s participation in women’s sports, frequently speaks at church events and evangelical conferences, and frames her cause as a “spiritual battle.”

In another image, a crucifix hangs prominently on the kitchen wall behind a woman in a tiny skirt, apron and platform heels. On the platform X, the model — Josie Glabach, who goes by “The Redheaded Libertarian” — said she was working to provide for her family, and defended her conservative bona fides in part by referring to her family’s Catholic faith. Using vividly vulgar language, she wrote that she doesn’t care “if the fact that I look hot doing any of it offends your senses.”

Such a debate would have been unimaginable at the turn of the millennium, when the best-known evangelical Christians in America were the evangelist Billy Graham, George W. Bush — the embodiment of establishment Republicanism — and Ned Flanders, a character on “The Simpsons” known for his cheerful prudery.

As a core faction in the Republican coalition, conservative evangelicals have long influenced the party’s policy priorities, including opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage. And the influence extended to conservative culture, where evangelical norms against vulgarity were rarely challenged in public.

In some ways, they remain intact. Most pastors don’t cuss from the pulpit, or at all. Mainstream conservative churches still teach their young people to save sex for marriage and avoid pornography.

Yet a raunchy, outsider, boobs-and-booze ethos has elbowed its way into the conservative power class, accelerated by the rise of Donald J. Trump, the declining influence of traditional religious institutions and a shifting media landscape increasingly dominated by the looser standards of online culture.
“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
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