When I was a kid it wasn't Harry Potter, it was Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh. I mean, Yu-Gi-Oh has Exodia, so it isn't that ridiculous that they freaked out about it, but how can they look at a Bulbasaur and see a demon?
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Replying to @ImpPercyPtible
I had a teacher go off on this tirade about how Pokémon was evil because it taught "evolution" I pointed out that they don't mean Darwinian evolution, they mean an individual changing over the course of their lifetime, and he said that was what offended him
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ImpPercyPtible
God made you a certain way and to believe that you can fundamentally change and become more powerful over the course of your lifetime is one of Satan's lures The idea of transformation is fundamentally demonic and witchcraft It was fucked up
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ImpPercyPtible
I am periodically reminded that my experiences with both conservatism and Christianity as well as Abrahamic religion in general are, uh, not the same as yours or those of people in deep reactionary fundie areas. Because, WOW, that's fucked up and cartoonishly extreme.
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I think Satan and belief in Satanic influences are most consistently the dividing line between broadly mainstream (conservative or progressive) religious life, and more purely reactionary ones.
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Probably, I'm just... Wow. Like speaking from both my experiences and the (probably somewhat cherry picked) education in historic Christian culture I've had that's just deeply, deeply aberrant
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I dunno, they burned a lot of witches back in the day
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Not THAT many, really, in the big scope of things. They mostly went after heretics, which sucks too, but it's a different kettle of fish.
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In all seriousness, if you read a lot of stuff from Christian moralizers back in the day it was thoroughly earnestly and sincerely oppressive These long rants about how "passions" in and of themselves are destructive
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
Bunch of people who settled America specifically to get away from secular music with violins in it (the electric guitar of its day), from the theatre and parades, from wine and coffee and spicy foods
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"Why did the Methodists officially ban having sex standing up?" "They were concerned it might lead to dancing"
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