(I’m a Christian who curses and also I do not hate anyone who has a different belief or no belief in a higher power at all.
“humble in the face of knowledge is my credo .”
I get shit for loving the lgbtqia community which is beyond moronic . Anyway that’s for another post . God bless you
Ugh I hate atheists who are like "believing in the big magical SkyDaddy™ makes you stupid which is why all religion is lame and full of idiots" like shut up. shut the fuck up. Please go burn whatever neo-Rationalist bullshit you've been consuming and go read Durkheim or any other basic text on the sociology of religion. Get some nuanced understanding of how religion works and why people believe in the metaphysical. Stop using atheism as an excuse to be an asshole to people who practice a religion. Fuck you.
Read this and tell me if you think the church is repressing women.
I’m a Christian & I know powerful women with management and leadership positions who live by the idea that She rules her life outside the house but she defers to her husband at home and in church . I’m really interested in how propyl feel about this .
I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success.
Like… if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it’s a “failed” business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don’t actually want to keep doing that, you’re a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it’s a “failed” marriage.
The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real” friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a “phase” - or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don’t do that thing any more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.
I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success… I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.
According to KRGC, then-Corporal Zachary Czerniewski received a promotion to Master Sergeant on Jul. 1, 2021.
That promotion came despite an Aug. 6, 2020 “counseling report” which found that he stopped a disproportionate number of Black drivers.
Following his promotion, Czerniewski was accused of falsifying 10 reports to hide his discriminatory behavior.
"In seven of those reports, he conducted a vehicle search on a black man and listed no search was conducted," KRGC reported. "The other three incidents, Czerniewski stopped a black man and listed his race as white in the traffic reports."
Special investigation documents showed that Czerniewski confided in another trooper that he did not always follow the rules because of a counseling report “indicating him to be a racist.” The trooper shared Czerniewski's remarks with investigators.
Czerniewski resigned last month.
Earlier this month, the former trooper pleaded guilty to twelve counts of lying about traffic stops. He was sentenced to two years of probation.
Lt. Eric Brown of the Missouri Highway Patrol declined to comment on Czerniewski's promotion.