Cardinals

[jstraw]

"We had 95% of *everything. We're down to 90%. At this rate, in 100 years we'll be down to 60%. This sharing the world shit has got to stop."

 

-white Christian males

[funkster]

It's an Evangelical thing.  They teach that Christians are persecuted, I have an assistant at work who believes she's being persecuted for her beliefs as well.  It's the looniest shit I've ever come across, I'm fairly certain she was telling people that the apocalypse would be initiated if Hillary had won..no joke.

[Butcher]

It's an Evangelical thing.  They teach that Christians are persecuted, I have an assistant at work who believes she's being persecuted for her beliefs as well.  It's the looniest shit I've ever come across, I'm fairly certain she was telling people that the apocalypse would be initiated if Hillary had won..no joke.

 

So she's psyched Trump has his finger on the nukes button? Ok...

[chshdsck]

They probably think they are making up for it by scheduling a Pride Night later next month. So will they deny Christian publications on that night now?

[mrfelina]

I wonder by how much the second worst sports fans are behind Cards fans?

 

Feels like a few oceans.

[Auz]

I'm still trying to work out why evangelical Christians think Trump is the second coming of Jesus?


Because being white, rich, narcissistic, anti-feminine, anti-environment, health denying, refuge denying & far-right thinking are all hallmarks of a modern day Jesus.

[rok]

Many Bible-thumpers, and Cards fans, seem to be stuck in the Old Testament world with a vengeful, unforgiving God. They also conveniently skip over that period where that brown-skinned hippie, and supposed son of God, preached about peace on earth and loving thy neighbor.

[Butcher]

Their brand of Christianity is very different from what the actual Jesus of Nazareth preached.

[1060Ivy]

Remember much of the born again crowd look forward to the apocalypse as it will bring the second coming so a President more likely to unleash a nuclear armageddon is preferable and been prophacized

[rok]

Cards conceding the season? Probably not, but they were pretty quiet during the deadline.


http://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/...eef05.html

[Butcher]

I'd be pretty content with the Cardinals hovering around .500 for the next decade or so.

[VanSlawAndCottoCheese]

I'd be happy if the had 500 total wins over the next decade.

[MrSheps]

It's an Evangelical thing.  They teach that Christians are persecuted, I have an assistant at work who believes she's being persecuted for her beliefs as well.  It's the looniest shit I've ever come across, I'm fairly certain she was telling people that the apocalypse would be initiated if Hillary had won..no joke.

To be fair, and while it's hard to define "persecution", there is plenty of Christian persecution in the world, as there is with all the religions in the places where they are minorities.  You could even argue Christians are the most persecuted worldwide. (Then again, the studies that find that show raw numbers of incidents that aren't adjusted for the fact that Christians are the world's majority, so in terms of percentages of those effected in the religion to say they're the most persecuted is dubious.) 

 

But the idea that there is Christian persecution in the US, where we are not only extremely tolerant of religion but where it is a clear majority, is ridiculous.  And the horrible false equivalence some groups try to make between Christians dying in a  church bombing in the middle east and a court clerk having to grant a civil union to a gay couple in the US is atrocious.         

[funkster]

I'm specifically referring to Christians in the US.

[MrSheps]

I'm specifically referring to Christians in the US.

For sure.  I'm just saying that ironically they take something real as inspiration and validation and try to equate it to experiences in the US in a "we're all being persecuted" way.  Any study that shows Christian persecution in the world is plastered on sites like Breitbart to fuel that narrative.