They say that they’re Christians. But you might have noticed that they lie a lot.
There are a lot of ways you can define “Christian”, but the most basic is “someone who follows the teachings of Jesus”. Which Dominionists don’t.
Given the number of ‘Christians’ I’m aware of who profess Christ but haven’t even cracked open a Bible he really didn’t.
(IME, if you find someone that can readily quote from the Bible, and not just stuff like John 3:16, they’re more likely to be a former Christian now atheist.)
Most people (Christian or otherwise) can’t give exact quotes, or the exact chapter and verse. But I’d expect most Christians to be able to say “the parable of the prodigal son”, or “that part where the Israelites mocked the followers of Baal by saying that he wasn’t answering prayers because he was on the crapper”, or whatever.
If you watch the video, Brand was apparently fishing around for a passage in Isaiah, so my guess is it would be one of those bits about the torments Israel must undergo that Christians like to interpret as prophecies about Jesus.
You’d think he would’ve bookmarked it if he couldn’t remember the chapter.
John 11:35 seems appropriate.
Especially now that whatever’s your search engine’s “AI” helper will try to make it so you don’t even bother going there.
But yeah use of that phrase is specific to some spheres of discourse and those who use it really don’t mind if WE don’t understand it.
And, I would suspect, they would look at people like us, who think that that phrase has a crude double entrendre, and think that we have Satan in our hearts, or something.
Old news now, but my son was playing a Little League game across the street from the hospital when the area was evacuated. The guy was eventually found under the porch of one of his best friend’s neighbors. Pretty scary stuff.
By “the guy,” are you referring to your son, found under a porch?
No, I’m referring to the murderer.
To further clarify, the murderer was hiding under the porch of my son’s friend’s neighbor.
OK, that’s definitely enough to creep someone out.
In the name of the porch of my son’s friend’s neighbor, I compel thee: begone!
So it isn’t deliberately hinting at sodomy? Huh.
It looks like he has bookmarked/highlighted a bunch of stuff, making it hard to find a specific thing. I had classmates in college who’d realize that they’d basically highlighted an entire textbook, which somewhat defeats the purpose.
The ones that made me shake my head were the ones who’d highlighted substantially the entire textbook and didn’t realize that defeated the purpose of highlighting.
It’s a way to keep track of parts you’ve studied and which you haven’t.
Please tell us you do realize why that’s a problem if “substantially the entire textbook” is highlighted…
(highlit?)
None of the local reporting that I’ve seen on this ask that question, which is weird, because it seems like the first question.
There are questions about Illinois’ Safe-T act, which is why the suspect wasn’t behind bars, and it’s a valid question.
But so far no questions about how this handcuffed, arrested guy still had a gun on him while in police custody.