The important thing to remember about this Bible verse is that Jesus is God made flesh. So, Jesus said that if a woman defends her husband, you should brutally hack off her hand.
What? You say that doesn't sound much like Jesus?
Yeah, I guess the other thing to consider is that maybe this book was written by a whole bunch of ordinary humans. And some of them were really dicks.
It’d like to remind everyone that when barcodes were invented, evangelists believed they were “of the devil” and if you came near one, Satan would crawl up your belly button or, if you’re a woman, up your vagina and impregnate you with the Antichrist, which would force them to face a very difficult choice regarding their pregnancy termination stance, and that is why the Hobby Lobby has no barcodes or exit scanners to this day.
You develop an instant global consciousness... an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it.
From out there on the Moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, "Look at that, you son of a bitch."
- Edgar D. Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut
Episode 7 of LOU was such a plodder (again) that I speed-scrolled through most of it to get to the 45-second good part.
Watching two teenage girls play mall rats and go on merry-go-round rides gave me Avatar 2 vibes from when I had to endure 12 hours of Jaques Cousteau Meets The Little Mermaid, Discovery Channel Weekend special, and those wounds haven’t healed yet.
I was born in the USSR and grew up in an ex-soviet "republic". Want an honest opinion on communism from someone who's experienced it firsthand? Ask me.