Your desk can have a lot more room on it if you also characterize the chairs and couch and parts of the floor where no one will probably walk as the auxiliary desk.

Christians so often reference the Bible with practically no regard for what it says. Maybe check King David's resume for a mentorship of one year and 4 months.

I love when a student asks a question that refreshes a given topic for you--today in my Intro to Critical Issues in the Study of the Gospels module a student asked "but didn't putting these first-century Gospels into a 27 book canon alter their meaning drastically?"

Since Adam and Eve, we have shifted blame so fast, I don’t know if we realize we do it anymore. Possibly one of the most powerful mindsets I have learned is, “I might be wrong.”

I've commented on unknown folk's religious encouragement one-liners, when they seemed to convey and encourage harmful (I think) use of the Bible. The Twitter algorithm helpfully recognized this as my purpose and filled my feed with it. Message received,God/universe/self.

A truly first rate Twitter thread.

There's a Twitter "please tell my child that their (unusually good it turns out) drawing, violin playing, looks, hair, whatever aren't as awful as his/her ogre teacher, bully, dad/mom, he/her thinks/said/worries" post that gives me munchausen by proxy vibes.

There's a large Walmart near me that typically has one or zero cashiers and the self checkout station bagging areas seem designed to discourage you from having a large order.

microsff "But faster-than-light?" "Oh, for that, we lie to the universe."

@PastorBenMarsh jfutral I feel like a Venn diagram of people complaining about Lizzo show the correlation with...nothing. It's a sample set of 23 and we only know of those because of the thousands, in the clear majority of people who are okay with it or don't give a s**t, finding them for us.

Narrator: trains were so consistently late that on time seemed absurdly early.

I think we liberals make a lot of mistakes in our pro-choice arguments and lobbying because we don't get that for more than half of pro lifers, it is actually about the baby. A slight majority are the people being successfully manipulated by an issue they sincerely care about.

1)Accept impossible thing (the Trinity) because it's how someone described God, polytheism is bad, and God can be impossible. 2)For some reason, attempt to apply logic. 1 makes 2 look silly. 2 makes 1 look silly. Logic would start start by not doing 1.

No Context Chick Tracts

When I stopped debating with a loved one, stopped getting my say (which, after having their say, they would hang up on) and just straight out said I wasn't listening to their opinions on certain topics unless I got equal time--they stopped. It saved the relationship.

If your religion is good and moral, I think you feel a lot less pressure to prove its God I think a significant part of Christian apologetics is people seeking an authority to justify what feels immoral even to to them. Trying to validate what troubles even their conscience.

Quote from an unexpected source: “How can it harm me if I understand the writer’s meaning in a different sense from that in which another understands it?…It may not even be the meaning which the writer had in mind.” That, my friends, is none other than…Augustine.