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Here's why Speaker Mike Johnson's attendance at a "Purity Ball" is so damn disturbing (www.friendlyatheist.com)

submitted 10 months ago by dantheclamman@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

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[-] AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world 120 points 10 months ago

Purity balls themselves are kind of disturbing. Engaging in sexual activity should be a personal choice. It is societies responsibility to teach children the possible outcomes of sexual activity so they can make an informed decisions. Celebrating not engaging in sexual activity makes children think that these activities are bad and should be avoided.

[-] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 87 points 10 months ago

They don't want children to be educated about sexual activity because that usually is correlated with effective family planning, which means fewer children, which means women having more time for personal empowerment rather than simply being vessels for childbirth, which again means fewer children. Fewer children means fewer minds to convert to the religion that motivates the whole exercise. Many 'successful' religions aggressively propagate themselves, even if it's at the expense of the well-being of the believers themselves.

[-] JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee 62 points 10 months ago

But they need more babies to propogate Christianity; The popular belief that a celestial Jewish baby who is also his own father, born from a virgin mother, died for three days so that he could ascend to heaven on a cloud and then make you live forever only if you symbolically eat his flesh, drink his blood and telepathically tell him you accept him as your lord & master so he can remove an evil force from your spiritual being that is present in all humanity because an immoral woman made from a man's rib was hoodwinked by a talking reptile possessed by an malicious angel to secretly eat forbidden fruit from a magical tree.

[-] CharStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 10 months ago

That is possibly my favorite description of Christianity that I have ever read! And very accurate!

[-] JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee 9 points 10 months ago

I did not write it. But I copy pasted it from another post and saved for future sharing. 🤓

[-] Techmaster@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

At the bottom of the screen:

THIS IS WHAT CHRISTIANS ACTUALLY BELIEVE

[-] HWK_290@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Well, when you put it like that...

Count me in!

[-] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Sounds plausible

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[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 22 points 10 months ago

It also means that kids might learn that rape isn't ok even when he's from a good family

[-] fubo@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

Or, for that matter, your own.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Not to mention, reduced cheap labor. Particularly reduced ~~slave~~ prison labor.

[-] IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

That, plus these scumbags are all about foisting their hangups on the rest of us.

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[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 32 points 10 months ago

Yeah and promising your sexual “purity” to your parent (the person statistically most likely to molest you at that age) is so disturbing on its own.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago

Seriously. I don't want to know if my daughter is having sex with someone as long as she's safe about it.

She likes girls, so at least pregnancy is not likely.

[-] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 13 points 10 months ago

It's half that outcome and half pulling back the rubber band, hoping it stays here when you let go. It doesn't, and instead you have tons of early pregnancy from 18 year olds or younger who didn't understand how to practice safe sex but just knew it was supposed to be great enough to have a ball about not doing until you find the right person.

[-] Riccosuave@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

[-] IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

I need to watch this movie again.

[-] Nunya@lemdro.id 5 points 10 months ago

Mandy?

[-] IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Aye.

[-] seaQueue@lemmy.world 58 points 10 months ago

Oh hey, conservatives are being weird about controlling their daughter's sex organs again. How surprising!

[-] Pratai@lemmy.ca 41 points 10 months ago

This dude has a hole filled with dead prostitutes somewhere.

[-] badaboomxx@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Dead MALE prostitutes.

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[-] BigMcLargeHuge@mstdn.social 27 points 10 months ago

@dantheclamman

Literally everything about Mike Johnson is disturbing, starting with the fact that his penis sticks out of his collar.

[-] Nobody@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago

~~1984~~ The Handmaid's Tale was not meant to be an instruction manual.

[-] kamenoko@sh.itjust.works 18 points 10 months ago

Don't let facists near your children .

[-] HorseRabbit@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 10 months ago

He has his son monitor his porn use. Dude said it proudly too. Absolute brain worms

[-] PeckerBrown@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

Looking for a date, no doubt.

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