And they do.
Some of them, I’m sure.
That’s Magic: the Gathering, I think unarguably the most complicated game of all time (though apparently simple in small doses).
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So, you believe that one of the most iconic and widely-recognized characters in the English language should have no influence on the use of English language?
Seems legit.
Oh, but unfortunately nobody elected you the final arbiter of literary custom and practice. An oversight, to be sure, but it turns out that the use of the English language evolves without your permission, and that today ‘Superman’ means something very different to English speakers than it did 120 years ago.
Of course not. But neither are you.
I get it. I’m sorry if I suggested that your American exceptionalism and assumption of cultural supremacy was offended. I will return to my cave and resume my attempts to create firel
And Bernie is the ideal Christian candidate - but he’s a Jewish Socialist! And while American Christians are plenty happy to pay lip-service to the world’s most famous Jewish Socialist, they’re vanishingly unlikely to vote for one in an election.
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Actually, the Bible is incredibly consistent on this part - God chooses all rulers and democracy is evil. For example, democracy activists are all killed by God in Numbers 16.
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Wouldn’t that make him the ideal candidate?
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I guess for the purpose of that article, devout = “regularly attending church”; not that I’d expect any of the respondents to answer “No, I’m not very devout.” I’m not at all surprised that some Evangelicals don’t regularly attend, but I’m rather surprised that they 'fessed up to it.
I’ve heard the expression “it’s only church while you’re there,” but they aren’t even there.
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Erm…my post was only two sentences long, dude. You could have bothered to read the second one!
Great chart of golden rules, thx!
Here’s one to add, from the church of scifi – this is from Anne McCaffrey, in one of the Dragonrider books:
“Make no judgements where you have no compassion.”
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M:tG, where the rules are were simple but every card introduced a new, conflicting exception.
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Sorry, It’s stress aggravated dyslexia. I did read it, but my brain mangled it into not mentioning Jesus.
Sometimes I manage to skip whole pages in books without realising.
I feel comfortable saying it’s the most complicated game because it’s been demonstrated to be turing complete, so you can code other games within it.
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Evangelicals “rationalizing” their support of Trump
“Rationalizing” seems incongruous here.
“Evangelicals bible-nonsensifying their support of Trump”?
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Coping with the cognitive dissonance of supporting Trump, anyway.
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How is it any more dissonant than the way they spend the rest of their lives, though?
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Not even hyperbole.
Here’s the abyss for those who want to gaze.
tl:dr nothing goes better with sharper image steaks than a bucket of potatoe soup
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It’s raw Calvinism; the Protestant Ethic hard at work.
To understand much about America, one should understand this element of American morality (and how it’s different from much of the rest of the world’s religious practice): Good things happen to good people. Bad things happen to bad people.
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