Fuck’s sake.
MATTHEW 6:5
And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
He’s a sinner.
Dude that guy’s face just looks like pure evil. If I saw him in a movie, I’d immediately know he was the villain.
I don’t know if this really happens, but his face looks like it got that way from scowling and laughing at the same time for the last 50 years.
So like, resting villain face?
Totally. I see him in leather in some vague future dystopia hoarding some resource or having three lines before the hero kills his henchmen
Prayer In Tongues On Floor Before Abortion Ruling.
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The science on speaking in tongues:
• People don’t tend to use sounds that aren’t in their native language. (citation) So if you’re an English speaker, you’re not going to bust out some Norwegian vowels. This rather lets the air out of the theory that individuals engaged in glossolalia are actually speaking another language. It is more like playing alphabet soup with the sounds you already know. (Although not always all the sounds you know. My instinct is that glossolalia is made up predominately of the sounds that are the most common in the person’s language.)
• It lacks the structure of language. (citation) So one of the core ideas of linguistics, which has been supported again and again by hundreds of years of inquiry, is that there are systems and patterns underlying language use: sentences are usually constructed of some sort of verb-like thing and some sort of noun-like thing or things, and it’s usually something on the verb that tells you when and it’s usually something on the noun that tells you things like who possessed what. But these patterns don’t appear in glossolalia. Plus, of course, there’s not really any meaningful content being transmitted. (In fact, the “language” being unintelligible to others present is one of the markers that’s often used to identify glossolalia.) It may sort of smell like a duck, but it doesn’t have any feathers, won’t quack and when we tried to put it in water it just sort of dissolved, so we’ve come to conclusion that it is no, in fact, a duck.
• It’s associated with a dissociative psychological state. (citation) Basically, this means that speakers are aware of what they’re doing, but don’t really feel like they’re the ones doing it. In glossolalia, the state seems to come and then pass on, leaving speakers relatively psychologically unaffected. Disassociation can be problematic, though; if it’s particularly extreme and long-term it can be characterized as multiple personality disorder.
• It’s a learned behaviour. (citation) Basically, you only see glossolalia in cultures where it’s culturally expected and only in situations where it’s culturally appropriate. In fact, during her fieldwork, Dr. Goodman (see the citation) actually observed new initiates into a religious group being explicitly instructed in how to enter a dissociative state and engage in glossolalia.
https://makingnoiseandhearingthings.com/2013/11/07/the-science-of-speaking-in-tongues/
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Professor of Linguistics William J Samarin concluded:
• While speaking in tongues does appear at first to resemble human language, that was only on the surface.[3]:73, 104, 120-1, 121-127
• The actual stream of speech was not organized and there was no existing relationship between units of speech and concepts.[3]:73, 120, 127, 128
• The speakers might believe it to be a real language, but it was totally meaningless.[3]:121, 127
Anthropologist Felicitas Goodman compared it with rituals from Japan and Indonesia as well as Africa and Borneo and concluded that there was no distinction. It truly is universal and quite easily crosses religious divides.[8]
Very good summary. I’ve never seen anyone do it outside of YouTube but someone added me to a snake handling church Facebook group for the laughs and they have some videos of them doing it.
I grew up in a branch of the Pentecostal Church (not the snake handlers). Even as a kid I thought it was fucking wild that people did that.
My favorite times were when people were “overcome by the spirit” or whatever and they’d stand up to get attention and speak in tongues (same people every fucking week) and this crazy old woman would stand up and “interpret” what those folks were saying. Listen, Birdie, I’m pretty sure that if there is a god he doesn’t speak solely in King James English.
Why are you such an anti-religious bigot? /s
His face looks like he drinks the blood of newborn for breakfast.
We should do all republican laws in tongues!
…yeah my wife needs an abortion…oh they are illegal? Can you show me on the law where it says that? No?
I went to a Pentacostal church many years ago and one time they had a group session to practice speaking in tongues. It’s absolute horseshit.
I go to a progressive church. We laugh at this kind of shit. It’s such a joke.
You can tell it’s horseshit because if they were actually performing the miracle of Speaking in Tongues that they claim to be you would be able to understand whatever they’re babbling about regardless of what language you speak. If they were genuinely doing it you probably shouldn’t even be able to tell unless someone who speaks a completely different language comes along and says something like, “Wow, it’s crazy that this congregation prays in Swahili,” or whatever.
Noted. Learn Esperanto, go to their church, speak it. Become their leader
Aren’t Christian’s awesome
I’m Christian but I could not give the slightest shit about abortion. I worked for a gyne that performed them and saw the pathology reports all the time. It’s literally a little spongy hemorrhagic tissue they are removing. It’s such a nothing, and when you see the waiting room full of women you realize that EVERYONE across cultures and religions get abortions. I saw Mennonite women and women in full burqas out there, and Christian women praying on their knees.
Have the procedure and get on with your life. Don’t let a few cells get in the way of your plans. It’s a decision between you and your doctor and nobody else.
Incidentally I offered on Facebook to mail any American women the abortion pill, and Facebook immediately banned me for 30 days for selling illicit substances. I ended up being interviewed by Vice about it funnily enough.
It is indeed a few cells as you say:
It’s literally nothing.
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Having people run around speaking in tongues isn’t really something that most Christian denominations do. It’s specific to a couple. IIRC the big one is the Pentecostals. Snow Crash had a plot that centered around that, kinda took some digs at the Pentecostal church.
googles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaking_in_tongues
Yeah, sounds like it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentecostalism
With over 279 million classical Pentecostals worldwide, the movement is growing in many parts of the world, especially the Global South and Third World countries.[10][11][12][13][14]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity
Christianity (/krɪstʃiˈænɪti/ or /krɪstiˈænɪti/) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus. It is the world’s largest and most widespread religion with roughly 2.4 billion followers, comprising around 31.2% of the world population.
So you’re talking about a denomination that’s a little over 10% of Christianity. That’s not nothing, but it’s also not really representative.
Honestly speaking, he’s just not a good Christian. If he’s condemning the actions of others, while praying in public for attention, he’s not following Jesus.
Claims to be a tape of this moment: https://imgur.com/gallery/5Jq7xiE
Religion has no place in politics. Not one whit. Practice whatever you want in your personal life, but nobody should be praying in a Senate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Kern
Huh. He’s also apparently a deputy marshal in Tombstone – yes that Tombstone, the location of the shootout at the OK Corral:
The gunfight at the O.K. Corral was a gunfight that lasted less than a minute between lawmen led by Virgil Earp and members of a loosely organized group of outlaws called the Cowboys that occurred at about 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 26, 1881, in Tombstone, Arizona, United States. It is generally regarded [by whom?] as the most famous gunfight in the history of the American Old West.
Of course he would be.
Hey! I don’t hate God. I hate that people take the fiction as literal.
Idk, if their God created people like that then I do kinda hate that God too.
:P
Did they Photoshop his eyes like that or did he come factory new looking like a demon?
Looks like he drinks the blood of newborns doesn’t he? Like if I were going to start believing the adenochrome nonsense I’d think he was the biggest culprit.
Dude looks just like Peacemaker’s dad.
Probably shares a lot of the same opinions as well
Dehydration has more pronounced effects the longer its active. These guys have been dry for way too long. Scary
