Just show him this anatomically accurate edition:
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I’m uncertain of your meaning here. If I wasn’t clear about it before, let me again emphasize that I don’t believe all Christians are fascists, but that the framework of the current Christian religion, with its historical respectability and privilege, promotion of blind faith as a virtue, and authoritarian themes, makes it a particularly powerful tool for people who are. While it’s not unique in that respect, there are few other institutions that can match it in terms of its destructiveness and pervasiveness, and most of those that can are heavily intertwined within its structure.
If you meant that I’m painting too broadly about nonfascist Christians sticking with that framework, I haven’t seen much evidence to the contrary. Other replies seem to think I expect them to drop their faith entirely, but that’s not really what I meant- I just don’t understand why the “good” Christians haven’t formed a sect to differentiate themselves from the cruel bigotry and prosperity gospel grifting that’s come to represent Christianity to many outsiders like myself. Call themselves “Christians Against Fascism” or something, I don’t know, just ANYTHING to say “hey, we’re not with these guys over here and are in fact your allies”. If that were to become a major religious movement, if it were to appear on polls and church names and charities, I feel like it would help expose the Christian bigots for the minority I’m always told they are, shatter their control, and they’d be reduced to just another fringe cult. But instead all I ever hear is “why should WE have to change our name?”. Sigh.
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I own a copy of that one. Honestly, less graphic nudity and a more respectful rendition of the text than one might expect from Robert Crumb.
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Yeah, pretty much. I thought he did a pretty decent job on it - darn thing was kind of creepy in person. The picture does not do it justice. I also can’t say how many times I almost said “Good morning” to it as I walked past it on my way to the IT office. Even with only half a body, Montague really did sense like a person lurking around the display.
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The 1994 miniseries was mostly crap, but Matt Frewer captured the essence of TM far better than Ezra Miller could even come close to thinking they could.
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I met Fred Rogers in college (I went to school in Pittsburgh and met him my freshman year) and I can personally attest that the man was as authentic in person as he was on his show and everytime he was interviewed. He was the Real Deal, and we need 100,000 copies of him in this country right now.
but that the framework of the current Christian religion, with its historical respectability and privilege, promotion of blind faith as a virtue, and authoritarian themes,
Ah, I see the problem, you’re not talking about Christianity, you’re talking about American Evangelicalism, which is EXACTLY what you’re describing.
You should really stop using the word Christianity, because it’s inflammatory and incorrect for what it is that you’re actually talking about.
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You do know what the Onion Knight, Ser Davos, would say about all the heavy lifting that poor little conjunction is doing, right?
Absolute power tends to corrupt, absolutely.
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This is a rhetorical pet peeve of mine: proactively setting up any disagreement as evidence of the superiority of your position.
Frankly, it has no place is a good faith discussion, IMO.
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Mere religion itself isn’t the threat; people are.
Just like a gun, religion is only a tool; it’s what people choose to do with it that 's the issue.
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Hill’s church chooses not to celebrate Halloween, and Hill himself associated the holiday with nefarious activities carried out by the Satanic Church[…]
Well, as we can see, that very thing is happening. It’s YOU!
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I think those folks call themselves Episcopalians.
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Wicked hairy though, A+ for biblical grooming verisimilitude
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I don’t think very many people waxed back then. Especially Esau.
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I just like that he blows up the perverse notion we have in America that moral purity is expressed in hairlessness
Edit: or maybe not. There isn’t all that much moral purity in Genesis. Whole lotta superannuated patriarchal assholes and not much else.
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Now I realize what the priest meant. He doesn’t see any problem with the giant dog’s book. I even got the impression that he likes the animal. But he sees nothing wrong with burning a completely harmless book. It even looked like that guy who was going to murder his own son because God asked him to.
Either the guy is a true believer or he is an opportunist who is stirring up true believers.
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It’s a nice “if” but considering God never told anyone to burn any books (I’m no biblical scholar but I know for a fact God hasn’t told anyone do do any such thing in modern times, ha), what the F is he talking about.
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Perhaps they compare the burning of books with the destruction of the golden calf.
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Yikes, that’s a lot of false idols!
Maybe they also see all the forest fires as preemptive book burnings? That’s a lot of lost paper pulp…
(I’m joking, but we really don’t seem far off from them busting up today’s equivalent of the printing presses) 
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