Thoughts and Prayers: The Religion Thread

What about the couple of them with the orange hair/wig sticking out of the red visors? (Clearly, it's not their own hair). They're supposed to be Trump, maybe? What is that supposed to be -- a Trump Halloween costume?

Such ridiculousness. These are not serious people, indeed. Except, what they're doing is going to end up being serious trouble for our country.

 

He gone.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/18/us/r...xual-abuse-allegations-resignation/index.html

“Inappropriate relationship” seems like a funny way to say child molester.

 

I was working at a little weekly in the navel of Wisconsin when word got out about the mass murder/suicide at Jonestown in 1978. Hulu has released a 3-part series that takes a second look, featuring Jim Jones' son.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/what-happened-in-jonestown-if-you-refused-to-drink-the-kool-aid?via=newsletter&source=wednesday_member_digest_new&user_emailA=25fe7aebb749751947f02998b91cab5a&user_emailB=5863e549834d80763969d4c042ab677c1c46dee27f2901a2fad6d2374483c185&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=240619-Subscriber Digest Weds&utm_term=BI-Wednesday-Digest

 

Awful.

Awful.

 

The damage extends beyond those who were directly involved. Families on both sides take hits and some may feel their own failures at some point. I often wonder if the woman who screamed, "We would all have ben better off if she kept her mouth shut!" ever regrets doing that.

 

Me desperately wanting to reply directly to a post on another thread but telling myself to let it go.

 

Church of the Highlands, a humongous mega-church about ten minutes from me, hosts a ministry to fallen churchmen. It's essentially the same as Charlie Sheen going to sex addiction rehab. Scandal ridden ministers come and do therapy, show contrition and gain redemption. Or they are trying to virtue signal and figure out how to get another job. I understand it's very comfortable. Rich church.

I think the elk head on the wall (in Alabama) is a particularly nice touch.

There's a city park near me that's basically a lovely stretch of woods beside the Cahaba River. I walk it for exercise. River beside me, shady tunnel of trees, walking up on little knobs that overlook a pretty hollow. It borders the CotH campus. The border is marked by an eight foot tall chain link fence. It has "No Trespassing" signs on it, which also advise that the fence is covered by closed circuit cameras.

Church of the Highlands

 

Click on Locations while you're at it.

 

Yeah, Robert Morris was one of the “overseers” (because that isn’t at all a loaded word in the Deep South) of COTH until last week.

 

Why am I not surprised to hear that?

 

Because all these right wing megachurch shitbirds are cross-connected to the point it is organized crime doused in Welch’s grape juice from communion.

 

Louisiana governor signs law that requires the 10 Commandments to be posted in every public school classroom:

Jeff Landry signs Ten Commandments bill into Louisiana law. A lawsuit is already brewing.