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   lenazun (lzg@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 09:49:55 JST lenazun

   i’m reading Talia Lavin’s Wild Faith and i’m double convinced nothing can be done to change evangelical christian’s views on anything ever. there’s no fighting for acceptance or equality or anything at all. it is what it is.

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     John Regehr (regehr@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 10:27:17 JST John Regehr

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     @lzg I've often wished for a _Left Behind_ sorta situation. like, fuck off to heaven and leave the planet to the rest of us.

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     lenazun (lzg@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 10:32:37 JST lenazun

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     • John Regehr

     @regehr at this point i’m open to satan. let’s hear what the guy has to say.

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     John Regehr (regehr@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 10:32:38 JST John Regehr

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     @lzg (note: I only read the first book. if like satan shows up on Earth in book two then I'm no longer behind this exact scenario)

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     John Regehr (regehr@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 10:36:22 JST John Regehr

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     @lzg true, true

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     lenazun (lzg@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 11:44:41 JST lenazun

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     • tuban_muzuru

     @tuban_muzuru sure but that has to happen from the inside. there’s nothing us from the outside can do.

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     tuban_muzuru (tuban_muzuru@ohai.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 11:44:42 JST tuban_muzuru

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     @lzg

     Heh. They most certainly do change their minds - I'm a child of fourth generation missionaries, pastors and suchlike.

     I remember when Divorce was a big issue. If you got divorced, you left the church. No fault divorce went through the church like a forest fire. The pews emptied out. In desperation, the evangelicals called the divorced "singles" and put in Sunday School classes 'n everything for them.

     Their opposition to gays in the congregation is mostly gone, too.