DL Open Thread: Saturday, July 3, 2021
Southern Pastors Give Up On Vaccinating The Flock. Mostly in white rural congregations:
Polls have consistently shown that white evangelicals are among the groups most hardened against vaccination. The most recent, a June survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation, found that 22 percent of white evangelicals said they would “definitely not” get the vaccine, a figure that’s barely budged since April. About 11 percent said they wanted to “wait and see” how the vaccines perform.
“It’s heartbreaking that it’s come to this over something that is potentially lifesaving and yet has been so completely colored over by political views and conspiracies that it’s impossible to have a simple loving conversation with your flock,” Collins said in an interview. “That is a sad diagnosis of the illness that afflicts our country, and I’m not talking about Covid-19. I’m talking about polarization, tribalism even within what should be the loving community of a Christian church.”
I’d like to congratulate The Last Guy for hastening the extinction of these dinosaurs.
Chestnut Trees To The Rescue. A compound in the leaves of those trees kills, or more accurately, detoxifies, MRSA. For all you scientists out there who have nothing better to do this holiday weekend, read this, and then tell me what it says. BTW, has anyone taken ‘Virulence’ as their band name yet? Maybe I should trademark it. Oops, too late. There’s also a brand-new band named Pathogenic Virulence. Here’s the set-list from their debut album, Submerged Into Non-Existence:
1. Exoplasmic Engorgement (Intro) 0:09
2. Putrid Gasp Proliferation 1:27
3. Vermal Cerebellar Decay 5:20
4. Host-Cellular Deformity 7:53
5. Anomaly In Transcendence 10:54
6. Phagocytosis Inversion 14:03
7. Consuming Void In Perennial Atrophy 16:51
8. Harvest Fetus Metamorphosis 21:34
9. Antropomorhic Parasitoidism 24:26
Be on the lookout for them. Here’s what one fan had to say:
I wake up to this alblum & it’s the last alblum i play before i go to sleep. There is only a few bands that i play the whole alblum.This alblum is definitely one. Excellent job guys & i truly mean EXCELLENT!!! Fuck yeah Fuck yeah.
You don’t get this kind of information on any other political blog.
Likely New Manhattan DA Has Successfully Sued The Trump Organization Before. For Trump, no surcease of sorrow come the ‘morrow:
While at the attorney general’s office, he helped sue the Trump administration more than 100 times, and led the team that sued the Donald J. Trump Foundation, which resulted in Trump personally paying $2 million to an array of charities and the foundation being dissolved. Bragg is also a former assistant US attorney in the criminal division of the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.
Bragg said in a statement Friday that he is committed to ending racial disparities and mass incarceration, and campaigned not to prosecute low level crimes, something his R challenger Kenniff said he disagrees with.
What do you want to talk about?
I guess the slow steady death of white evangelical christianity isn’t dramatic enough for a people raised on the fire and brimstone drama found in the book The Book of Revelation.
Alas the certain waning of Evangelical Christianity into insignificance won’t probably happen during my lifetime. But it will wane into insignificance because the soon return of Christ will never be fulfilled although you’d think that 2,000 years of waiting would be sufficient evidence to disabuse these Christians of the belief. That and how Evangelical Christianity keeps making stupid political and moral claims will turn the masses off of it eventually.
‘Sovereign Citizens’ In Standoff That Shuts Down I-95:
https://www.wcvb.com/article/standoff-closes-part-of-i-95-wakefield-reading-asked-to-shelter-in-place/36918863#
It was 117°F in Oregon in June.
A whole town in British Columbia just combusted.
An apartment building in South Florida collapsed into the water table.
There was another tornado in Sussex Co.
Now the Gulf of Mexico is on fire.
And really the biggest problem is Critical Race Theory. So we’re doing pretty good.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/06/07/record-june-heat-wave-middle-east/
End times eh? Alby, I know a certain R.E.M song that would be quite fitting….. if you’re taking requests 🙂
http://delawareliberal.net/2020/03/17/song-of-the-day-3-17-r-e-m-its-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/
Guttural slamming death metal!! Brutal!!
Also, Lauren Witzke just going for it on Alex Jones’ show:
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/lauren-witzke-says-the-equality-act-will-illegalize-jesus-christ/
“There is a war on Christians,” Witzke said. “They targeted me, and they made an example out of me because I’m an outspoken Christian who vocally opposes the Equality Act. … They’re trying to illegalize Jesus Christ and the Scripture and categorize it as hate speech.”
“What it will do is it will classify scripture, belief in traditional marriage, as hate speech,” she continued. “If an abortionist wants to make the decision to not perform an abortion, they can arrest that abortionist or that doctor or that nurse that chooses to take the biblical approach and change their lives. Children who struggle with gender identity—now it’s going to make it illegal for them to pursue therapy to change their mind. This is absolutely an attack on Christians. Even just quoting scripture will be classified as hate speech. … It is going to make Christianity a crime on a federal level.”
“We cannot allow this to go any further. We’re going to lose everything,” Witzke warned. “It’s gotten to the point now where we’re all going to end up in Kamala [Harris’] gulags unless we all stand up together and fight back as Christians.”
“Fight back as Christians.”
Said without a trace of understanding of her own ignorance.
There’s a reason the Romans fed these people to the lions.