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In reply to the discussion: White Evangelicals, This is Why People Are Through With You [View all]Warpy
(114,551 posts)39. They will continue to decline
until about 2080, then there will be a centennial boomlet and pompadoured charlatans with capped teeth will once again experience lavishly positive cash flow. I don't know why numbers on an arbitrary calendar spook superstitious people, but they do.
There is no real discussion with them, either, unless you're their particular pompadoured fraud. Change the subject, walk away and if they tell you you're going to hell, do what I do, grab their hands and give them a two fisted Chamber of Commerce hearty handshake while saying :I heard god was dead but I hadn't realized you'd gotten his job. Congratulations!" I guarantee the harangue will end and the subject never broached again.
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like how it's been discovered it's a heritable mental disorder exacerbated by wrong handed
certainot
Jun 2022
#25
all about the certitude. authoritarians fear uncertainty and carter didn't. tfg had royal certitude
certainot
Jun 2022
#26
Yet pedophile priests are worthy Catholics, protected by the church for many decades.
keithbvadu2
Jun 2022
#29
"Pigmentation and party are your sole deities" pretty much describes the evangelicals I've known.
sop
Jun 2022
#31