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Watching him “speak in tongues” was so painful.

And I grew up Pentecostal, so that shit doesn’t usually faze me.

This is sad, but true.

At my first teaching job, a first-grader told her teachers and the principal that the bruises on her legs were from her mom hitting her with a belt. We reported it to Child Protective Services, and when they followed up, the mom pulled her out of school to “homeschool” her instead.

Covering up physical abuse is one of many reasons why homeschooling needs more oversight.

The article points that out:

While humanism is often a non-religious philosophy or a worldview, federal courts have ruled that it qualifies as a religion.

My college roommate was obsessed with this. And the hamster dance.

That is still the scariest movie I’ve ever seen.

The guerilla marketing around the film was absolutely genius. I knew it wasn’t real, but I was already immersed in the world for weeks before the release.

I was genuinely terrified at the end of the movie. We went home and I made my fiancé (now husband) watch Priscilla, Queen of the Desert with me so I could get to sleep. I had nightmares for weeks.

The folk music in A Mighty Wind may be greater than the Swans’ screen time. And that music is extremely white.

But the meltdown over Busy Bee can definitely count for double.

I saw Ghoulies at a babysitter’s house when I was 6. It was the first remotely scary thing I had ever been exposed to.

It opens with a satanic occult ritual. This was peak Satanic Panic, and my Assembly of God church was teaching me that Satan was real and people who worshipped him were actually performing ritual sacrifice. So in my little-kid perception, it was basically a documentary.

I had nightmares about it until I left the church in my early 20s. As part of my deconstruction process, I watched the film and saw how ridiculous it really was.

That’s a hell of an assumption you’re starting with.

There are quite a lot of philosophers who would say that free will doesn’t exist (we call them determinists). I’d wager that plenty of them would posit that consciousness exists. It’s hard to talk about our experience of the world without consciousness.

The person you responded to is likely either (a) Russian or (b) old enough to remember what parts of the USSR were called … or © both.

Here’s some info in case anyone doesn’t know why we would make a distinction between Ukraine and “the Ukraine.”

Imagine having such a fragile faith that you have to kill anyone who makes an offensive comment about it.

People who are strong in their faith can hear and discuss challenges without resorting to violence.

How long until the Christian Nationalist Republican Party imposes the death penalty for offenses against Supply-Side Jesus?