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Eric Weinstein.

That’s practically part of our heritage. What’s new is doing it in so ham-handed a fashion.

And you keep going until you get to the candy center, the hard core.

The moron gives up.

I am reflexively really resistant to calling Christianity a cult because it doesn’t really meet all of the criteria we usually use to define a cult - particularly a singular charismatic leader.

But then…even that criteria arose in a culture dominated - hell totally saturated in Christianity, so I’m questioning those reflexive reactions lately.

I think Evangelical Christianity, which is now functionally interchangeable with Christian Nationalism, is, if not a doomsday cult, then certainly has all of the bad things you tend to think about when you think about doomsday cults but with orders of magnitude more actual political, social, and material power.

So in some ways, calling it a cult is really underselling how dangerous it is.

No no no. God is good and all powerful, but the forces of evil are ruling because everyone else is so sinful. So god is big sad/mad but it is also part of his plan so 👍

In my experience growing up evangelical, it’s as much a plea as it is an assertion.

You have been consistent from the start but that isn’t something I would brag about if I were you. You haven’t made any kind of argument - even at this late and belabored stage - because you likely are not capable of forming one. It’s how I know to block you after this, because parsing your ‘arguments’ is literally not worth the calories.

The press are not military personnel. I wish you the best of luck in stringing two thoughts together in the future but I won’t be checking in.

Okay, so as I suspected you made a point about security clearance for no coherent reason since it has precisely fuck all to do with this story. But you know they aren’t a joke so that is pretty cool. Glad I pursued this.

Okay I re-read it and I still don’t understand why you made a point about security clearance in reference to press credentialing. How many more times should I re read it before it’s okay to ask you to explain it further?

Assume that I am frustratingly stupid.

Why would a reporter need security clearance? Their entire function is to report information. I don’t understand your point.

I agree pedophiles are bad, so does the DHS now support the release of the Epstein files?

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