With Gina, I sometimes get the kind of pushback that David Willis gets with Joyce, and I have to respond the same way. "Hey, Tailsteak, what's with the exaggerated strawman Christian? There aren't any kids growing up Christian who actually believe that, are there?" *raise hand* Yo. "I mean, sure, we do those talks in youth groups about how premarital sex means your heart is like a used piece of bubblegum, but no kids are stupid enough to take that literally, let alone allow it to influence them into adulthood, right?" *raise hand* Yo. "Well, come on, it's like those anti-drug talks. No one's dumb enough to actually believe the obvious lies about how marijuana will ruin your brain and your life, right?" *raise hand* Yo. "Oh, please, it's like the personhood of the unborn. Anyone with half a brain can work out that the human soul beginning at conception is completely untenable as a philosophy and has no real scriptural basis, and you're only supposed to pretend to believe it in order to advance a political agenda, right?" *raise hand* Yo. "No, come on, man, it's like Creationism. You all figured out it's not literally true, right?" *raise hand* Yo. "...Jesus." Exactly. | ||||
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