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What Even Is The Lord’s Army?

September 4, 2019 No Comments

Jon and Ron talk about marching in the infantry, riding in the cavalry, and shooting the artillery! Also, noting just how terrifying it is when religious zealots form an ACTUAL army of the lord.

Jon and Ron talk to Jen Peeples from The Atheist Experience and Godless Bitches about religion and being gay in the military.
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Twitter: @RationalJen
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Gandalf Or God?! Ron has to guess whether four quotes come from The Lord Of The Rings or The Bible. We’re keeping a running total to see if he can keep his score in positive numbers.

What Even Happened? Jon and Ron talk about their week and what they watched, read, or did that made it not so terrible.
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https://www.twitch.tv/wartroutgaming
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Rock_(TV_series)
https://www.audible.com/pd/Pet-Sematary-Audiobook/B0797FYNDC
https://pokemonletsgo.pokemon.com/en-us/

Intro music by Austin Colón:
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Legal & Politics

Facebook Affirmations, Vol. VII: Transgender

July 27, 2016 No Comments

In my news feed on Facebook I will be served a daily dose of Christian affirmations from friends. In this series of posts, which I call “Facebook Affirmations™,” I will post and discuss some of these gems.

Today’s Facebook post doesn’t come from my own feed, but it inspired such grotesque feelings that I wrote a response that likely wouldn’t ever have seen the light of day and I want to share it here. The Facebook post in question had these points to make (paraphrased and summarized by me):

The military has changed its stance on transgender service members to where, like homosexual service members, they can openly serve without fear of being persecuted or kicked out of the military
Transgender service members will have access to healthcare needs via the normal service members’ healthcare system, which may include gender reassignment and/or hormones
This country doesn’t do enough for veterans (MY NOTE: I have no idea what this had to do with anything because it’s completely unrelated to transgender service members unless the context is the support of transgender veterans…but it wasn’t)
Transgender people and their medical needs are just gross

Random Thoughts

Hyper-Patriotism

February 8, 2012 2 Comments

I downloaded an app for my iPhone called “Thumb.” This app allows you to ask questions and get answers from random strangers, with thumbs-up and thumbs-down ratings. It’s mindless entertainment, as are most social apps. Anyway, while thumbing through questions I stumbled across one depicting a Marine Corps drill team with the caption, “Respect and honor????” I’m not sure why so many question marks were necessary.

Personal Testimony

Small Soldiers

May 31, 2011 1 Comment

ow that I was saved (theological debate surrounding the sincerity of the act notwithstanding) from Hell, it was important to those charged with my education to ensure that I became the best possible Christian. In order for this to happen, I had to become familiar with the doctrine of Christianity — namely, that god created me and loves me and that Satan is trying with all of his might to destroy god’s creation and claim the souls of believers for himself. This means war!

Personal Testimony

Explicit Lyrics

May 16, 2011 2 Comments

o there I was: a kid spending every Sunday morning and evening, Wednesday night and every major (and some minor) holiday in church. At this point church was still fun because I was doing arts and crafts, seeing flannelgraph stories and singing those great children’s songs that virtually everybody knows. Oh, the songs! They’re catchy, they’re cute, and they’re memorable. Regardless of how I may feel now about religion I can still sing all of those songs on demand.

Song is arguably one of the most effective ways to drill ideas into a kid’s head. There’s a reason you teach a kid the alphabet in song before they can read. When you want to remember something it helps to put it to music. For instance (and I can still sing this one too), children are taught to memorize the books of the Bible with this little number: