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Vogon_Glory

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3. I got exposed at a tender age to Fundies who (supposedly) read the Bible front to back and were ever ready
Fri Oct 17, 2025, 08:37 PM
Friday

to drag out some verse or other to attack “Sin.” (Usually to attack hair length, clothing styles, hanky panky, and rock and roll). Oddly enough the social action verses were rarely quoted.

These days right-wingers seem to be far less well-read about their source materials and are as prone to practice what they once denounced as “Cafeteria Christianity” as the “liberal” straw- men they condemn.

I admit that I should probably kick in a bit more to local food banks. But I’m under no illusion that private charity could replace the resources of government food programs, a conceit much loved by ideologues, hucksters, ivory tower-dwelling fools, and the scam artists infesting the secular and religious segments of the so-called “Conservative” Movement.

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