@archclergy asked: “ what did they do to you? ”  — Dante / @theocratic

The God of Knowledge || Accepting !!

   This was certainly a surprise, this must be King Dante, the one Fidel begged    Eavari to save him from. She doesn’t really know how to react to such a    presence, consider the only “royalty” she’s ever met were the ones she killed    & her own cousin. Eavari moves her bangs aside, showing the scar on her    forehead, if only she could remove it... She misses her magic.

        ❝ Fidel & Frederic took away my magic against my will...            I was drugged & kept in the catacombs. Fidel... Made            me his consort. All because he’s obsessed with me. ❞

   She keeps herself calm when talking about it, not wanting to show any of her    disgust or hatred, she shouldn’t lose herself when talking to someone who    could maybe help her. Poor thing just wants to go home.

        ❝ I can’t go back to my world without it... So I’m trapped. ❞

Rep. Zooey Zephyr, the first transgender woman elected to Montana's legislature, attended a Montana House of Representatives session to oppose an anti-transgender bill that would remove references to transgender individuals from more than 40 sections of state code. The bill, which would define sex in a way that excludes trans people, was one of over a dozen heard this year. The previous day, her strong speech against the gender affirming care ban the state had passed led to the Montana Freedom Caucus calling for her censure while intentionally and repeatedly misgendering her. When she punched in, they refused to recognize her to speak, and instead moved forward to pass the bill.

Tensions flared on the House Floor when the entire Democratic Caucus rose to demand that she be permitted to speak. In a strikingly undemocratic move, Republican House Speaker Regier declined to allow it, asserting that he could refuse to allow anyone to speak at his discretion. When Minority Leader Abbott objected, they moved to a packed rules committee meeting, which upheld the ruling. Following that, the Speaker stated it was his intent to no longer allow Representative Zephyr to speak moving forward.

Join me for a collection of four short stories set in our #dystopian past, present and future. A young southerner and his mother have a troubling encounter with a #Christian #heavymetal band; Willie, a newly sober ex-hippie gets more than he bargained for while running sound for a small town bar band; America's lust for futuristic reality TV drama threatens to irradicate all privacy; and a #theocratic government, risen from the ashes of the United States, forcefully maintains an abstinence only culture. There's something to offend almost everyone so strap in and hold on tight! #dystopia #sciencefiction #fiction #clickthelinkinmybio https://www.instagram.com/p/Cfy40ZEOTPM/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

So what do we know about the faith and the worldview of Mike Johnson? Johnson, 51, has deep ties to the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation’s largest Protestant denomination. He believes in a literal reading of the Bible, including the Book of Genesis. Johnson is a close friend of Ken Ham, the CEO and founder of Answers in Genesis, and provided legal services to that ministry in 2015. Answers in Genesis rejects evolution and believes that the universe is 6,000 years old; to believe anything else would be to undermine the authority of the Bible. “We’re not just about creation/evolution, the age of the Earth or fossils,” Ham told Johnson and his wife, Kelly, on their podcast. “We’re really on about the authority of the Word of God and the Gospel of Jesus Christ and helping equip people to have a true Christian worldview.” Johnson is enthusiastically on board; he has suggested that school shootings are the result of having taught generations of Americans “that there’s no right or wrong, that it’s about survival of the fittest, and you evolve from the primordial slime.” Johnson wants churches to be more politicized; he favors overturning the 1954 Johnson Amendment, which prevents churches from engaging in any political campaign activity if they want to keep their tax-exempt status. He also believes that churches are unceasingly under assault, and that Christian viewpoints “are censored and silenced.”

The Polite Zealotry of Mike Johnson

“When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag, carrying a cross.”

Alejandro Puente as Santiago Caballero & Martín Saracho 'Max' 2019 · The Club (El Club) Netflix · Telenovela · S01.E10

Saint Taurus & a handy size chart based mostly on relative size rather than Actual Size (so ignore the little human figure).

Once the church threw itself into the hunting of dragons and subsequent harvesting of their ichor, a new problem arose: the transportation of thousands upon thousands of gallons of highly volatile, toxic dragonsblood. The harvesting process takes months, and it is a continual race against time; dragonsblood in liquid form will become gas at very low temperatures, and a good 50% of all spilled blood is lost to evapotranspiration after a battle. Transporting this precious liquid safely is a greater challenge than harvesting it.

Taurus provides a simple solution. Stationed in the most central region of the empire, Taurus can reach the site of a battle and start transporting ichor before the dragon has even died. Taurus is the biggest of all the beasts and by far the strongest, and his harness & transport barge consist of the largest manmade structures within the empire (and potentially beyond it, as well). In fact, the fire shield at the front of the barge is the single largest continuous piece of metal ever designed by the armoursmiths, but it serves a vital role of keeping sparks from the exhaust flames from reaching the dragonsblood. Although the barrels are sealed, the danger of dragonsblood ignition is so great that all caution must be taken.

As if the logistical and metalworking challenges of this venture were not enough, Taurus must also be heavily armoured, with his main connection points to his barge reinforced. Poachers who can't bring down dragons to get their own dragonsblood engine fuel frequently choose to attack the barge. Taurus is considered to be unstoppable, too large and tank-like to even attempt to take down, but he still needs an escort of ground soldiers to watch the back of the barge, or occasionally a companion beast if the risk is high. It's a tricky operation - the scale of the barge is such that it becomes difficult to watch every inch, and on nearly every single excursion there is some ichor lost to theft, even if it is only as much as a single person or horse can carry.

The knight rider of Taurus, Sir Bounty, always rides with an inspector in his throne chamber, after an incident fifty years back wherein the previous Sir Bounty was found to have been taking bribes from poachers from outside the empire. He would linger at certain points on the route long enough to allow significant theft of ichor from the barge. Since then, all knights are regularly tested to ensure they do not succumb to the sin of greed, and that their vows of poverty remain unbroken. The punishment for the crime matches that which the old Sir Bounty suffered; death by immersion in hydrargyrum.

Ok full solidarity with people in the Gaza strip who are experiencing colonial violence really hard right now but uh, it would be nice to not see posts on here about the "brave fighters of Hamas" and bullshit like that 😵‍💫

Just for outsiders to Three Houses discourse, I need you all to know that the discourse takes the form of a fundamental disagreement on the nature of the most important character of the story, the conflict she causes, and the setting that created it.

Also understand that the main goal of Edelgard, the character you may have heard called a fascist, is separating church and state and abolishing monarchy, and about half the fandom is convinced she is a villain and her war is unjust.

Cards Against Humanity

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So we’re donating 100% of profits from orders to your nightmare-state to the National Network of Abortion Funds, plus $100,000 right now, to help the people most fucked over by the Republicans in your state government. We don’t need your money.

We also wanted to know what on earth the people in your state were thinking, so we asked them a few questions. You will unfortunately believe what we found.

For the love of God, don't forget to vote.

—Cards Against Humanity”

Sweet Religion Inverted

This afternoon a federal judge in Florida issued an injunction on the enforcement of the state's ban on gender-affirming healthcare for minors. And while the order is limited to a small number of plaintiffs seeking hormone treatments on behalf of their children, it's a scathing indictment of the statute's constitutionality, as well as the cruelty of the politicians who advocated for it.

"The elephant in the room should be noted at the outset. Gender identity is real," writes US District Judge Robert Hinkle, hinting at the "unspoken suggestion running just below the surface in some of the proceedings that led to adoption of the statute and rules at issue—and just below the surface in the testimony of some of the defense experts—is that transgender identity is not real, that it is made up."

But you don't get to ban something, particularly gender-based medical care, based on barely concealed bigotry.

"Any proponent of the challenged statute and rules should put up or shut up: do you acknowledge that there are individuals with actual gender identities opposite their natal sex, or do you not? Dog whistles ought not be tolerated," the court bristles.

jewish enough to have ten thousand palestinians slaughtered in her name but not enough to be buried inside a cemetery 🙃

not only are these people ghouls, they are also idiots

YouTube has now started recommending me PragerU Kids videos and I want to throw my phone out the windowwwwwww