"When Jesus came to Earth, he abolished all of those except the gay thing"
(Actual argument I have heard)
Jesus doesn’t, but Paul states that homosexuality is a sin a few times. (Although some or all of those are later interpolations and deliberate mistranslations)
Yep, they will say "new covenant the old covenant doesn't apply" but will then say well, all that stuff in the old covenant, we don't have to follow it anymore, but it's still a "guide" for what's right and wrong. People like Sorkin think Christians haven't already figured out how to contort the Bible into whatever they want. It's literally what Christians have done for nearly 2,000 years.
I have no idea where Jesus said the gay stuff still counted though lol
There's an apocryphal Biblical passage stating that, just after Judas Iscariot kisses Jesus's cheek to identify him to the Romans, Jesus whispers back "No Homo".
I believe it's in the Book of Chad.
The best part is that he based her character on a man. Then changed it I to a female because Sorkin hates women that much.
Isn't it cool how literally every Sorkin product has to feature a scene where an older man scolds a woman for her nieve and emotional views
Isn’t it amazing that he had accepted so thoroughly that doing so was ok that he got genuinely confused when people called him a shit head for saying AOC needed to shut up and know her place behind Pelosi?
they dont care about those passages. it was never about logic or about what is actually written in the book. its about social power.
Hot take: This is how this interaction would play out IRL because it's a powerful man semi-publically shaming a woman into silence.
when i saw the thumbnail i thought this was going to be a screencap of the liveaction scooby doo movies because the woman in green looks like shaggy from afar lol. the citations needed episodes dunking on west wing and the cth episode where they shittalk sorkin's masterclass were enjoyable to listen to. scary how much libs take sorkin's terminal coke brained ideas to heart.
the masterclass one was kinda boring but the episodes about west wing, newsroom and studio 66 were hilarious
Yep. As someone who used to be seriously Catholic, there are no quick "gotchas" within religious rules that outsiders can come up with. This particular argument, it's quite common, I can use my old Christian mindset to generate at least three separate rationalisations against it. There are so many thought-stoppers and complex intellectual justifications involved in serious religious belief because if you set the human mind to proving something any way possible, you'll spring an infinite fountain of bullshit. Don't get into the weeds of why Christians believe what they do, because the ones who care about scripture know more than you and the ones who don't won't be swayed.
a good rule of thumb with interacting with people on social media today is don't assume bad faith/COINTELPRO where "this person used to have a tumblr account" is a simpler explanation.
the thought of people who had superwholock accounts in 2012 working for the cia now is too much for me to bear.
i don't want to explain it. this article is old and a little buzzfeed-y, but it has a clear summation of how on a site filled to the brim with obnoxious fanbases they're still considered the pinnacle of bad posts
The West Wing has done more damage than Aaron Sorkin will ever know.
I can feel the release of their mental masturbation from here it is moist, warm, and milquetoast.
