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nsacpi
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weird is being charitable
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Didn't you post a video of a guy who said people will fight, and you said he was a domestic terrorist?
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I'm not too concerned with your thoughts. Go back to cheering for more US death
Runnin
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In the Theological Sense, Jerry Falwell Jr.’s Scandal Is Profoundly Sad
Catholicism defined scandal as being not about the person committing the sin but about the rest of us. It’s a useful lens for understanding our present predicament.
Jerry Falwell Jr., early apostle of Donald Trump and happy scourge of the libs, has finally resigned as president and chancellor of Liberty University. A former friend of the couple who might or might not have been extorting them, Giancarlo Granda told Reuters he had an ongoing sexual relationship with Falwell’s wife, whose name, of course, is Becki. And Jerry sometimes liked to watch. It’s the kind of smug bully’s humiliating comeuppance that makes a perfect scandal.
But this scandal goes deeper than that—and I don’t mean the possible Michael Cohen connection.
In the old theological meaning of the word, scandal isn’t really about what happens to the person who does something wrong. It’s about what happens to everybody else, those left in the scandal’s wake, wondering if there’s anything left to believe. In that sense, Falwell’s scandals are of a piece with Trump’s. Falwell makes people wonder if religion is actually just jerks reciting pieties and making money; Trump makes people wonder the same thing about democracy.
Catholicism defined scandal as being not about the person committing the sin but about the rest of us. It’s a useful lens for understanding our present predicament.
Jerry Falwell Jr., early apostle of Donald Trump and happy scourge of the libs, has finally resigned as president and chancellor of Liberty University. A former friend of the couple who might or might not have been extorting them, Giancarlo Granda told Reuters he had an ongoing sexual relationship with Falwell’s wife, whose name, of course, is Becki. And Jerry sometimes liked to watch. It’s the kind of smug bully’s humiliating comeuppance that makes a perfect scandal.
But this scandal goes deeper than that—and I don’t mean the possible Michael Cohen connection.
In the old theological meaning of the word, scandal isn’t really about what happens to the person who does something wrong. It’s about what happens to everybody else, those left in the scandal’s wake, wondering if there’s anything left to believe. In that sense, Falwell’s scandals are of a piece with Trump’s. Falwell makes people wonder if religion is actually just jerks reciting pieties and making money; Trump makes people wonder the same thing about democracy.
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Are they telling it to Chinese people?
Lebron has a credibility problem with China. Sorry you can't see that
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hmmm...the guy who has been working out of the White House the past 4 years thinks its on the basketball player to give him some "concrete solutions that are productive"
also glad to see Jared speaking up on behalf of ordinary Americans who don't have the luxury of taking a day off
hmmm...the guy who has been working out of the White House the past 4 years thinks its on the basketball player to give him some "concrete solutions that are productive"
also glad to see Jared speaking up on behalf of ordinary Americans who don't have the luxury of taking a day off
