This episode of Drunk Ex-Pastors begins with a voicemail from an Asian that isn’t even that boring. Jason then complains (again) about being a casino valet, while Christian displays a measure of actual happiness. Christian laments the new direction his Xfinity internet provider is taking, and then we take a call from a southern listener about what it’s like to find one’s self in the “in-between” stage between one set of beliefs and another. Our “Feeding Friendsy” segment tackles the thorny issue of whether rappers need to rise to the chivalric level of presidential candidates, and we give like ten seconds’ worth of our attention to Pat Robertson before immediately regretting it. Christian is biebered by the best laid plans of screenwriters and men, while Jason’s bieber has to do with the false effects of daydreaming.
Also, do blonde conservative news anchors get less hot the more they talk?
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• I think listening to you guys on Sunday morning would be more beneficial spiritually to the soul than listening to many CC pastors.
• Given how many sermons I’ve heard in my life, I think I could get up in front of a congregation on Sunday morning and give a standard evangelical Christian sermon without an ounce of preparation.
• You say you’re not gay, but you’re buying candles.
• Wasn’t there someone who called some redhead girl a fire crotch? That’s sort of what firestick reminds me of.
• Pat Robertson… okay, so imagine the Crypt Keeper, but instead of being sort of darkly humorous, he spends most of his day spouting your drunk conservative uncle’s posts out loud.
• Hey, Pat, polygamy is totes okay. It’s in the bible.
• It’s all about protecting your own power and privilege.
• Oh, I think Jesus would bake that big gay wedding cake and go to that big gay wedding, make some wine, and have fun and tell everyone there about the Kingdom of God all the while the “good” Christians would be criticizing him for going.
• No, that was the “upside down” on Stranger Things.
• I’m struggling with my faith. Reading the Old Testament it’s just impossible for me to read and still say that it’s God’s word. There’s good things in it, but there’s some really awful things and contradictions and evidence of it not being a single narrative, but a narrative blended from multiple sources by later compilers and editors. Just reading through the law, it goes from unbelievably tedious to progressive for its day to just horrifically awful all in the course of the same chapter sometimes. I’d really like to think that God could have done a much better job with it.
• Dennis Quaid, and he had cheated on her previously, IIRC.
• Unlike other ideologies, though, we make a claim that the Holy Spirit, God Himself, really dwells with us and wants to keep us, I would think that someone really wouldn’t have to work that hard to maintain their faith.
• “Let’s talk about the election…” How about “No.” I’ve sent in my ballot, I’m done.
• Come on, you can’t be naïve enough to think that if Bernie Sanders had won the nomination, they wouldn’t have found something ‘scandalous’.
• It doesn’t bother me when a new wikileaks come out, because thus far they’ve all been huge nothingburgers.
• Trump makes me miss the halcyon days of yore when the GOP nominee was George Fucking Bush.
• I think Jason is overestimating the courage of the GOP congressional leadership. I personally think they’d collapse faster than house of cards being hit with a bowling ball. I think they’ll totally give him what he wants out of fear of their base.
• Duck Dynasty Guy, 2020! Wooooooo!
• Okay, look, I understand that the zeitgeist out there suggests that Hillary is scandalous, but are you really scandalous if the only reason you’re scandalous is because your political opposition has spent the last 30 years actively trying to turn any misstep, any misstatement into a scandal? I’m not saying she’s clean or above the normal level of corruption that all politicians embrace, but I keep seeing this type of statement with no more evidence to back it up than rumors, accusations, and innuendo with very little real evidence.
• http://www.theonion.com/article/precious-little-voter-needs-feel-inspired-candidat-52566
• You know the message the DNC will get if its voters abandon it for Trump? That they want Democrats to be more conservative or that you’re an unreliable voter and they should ignore you and concentrate on the people who did vote.
• No, Paul Ryan couldn’t handle Joe Biden. He’d lose. The guy I think could have taken the White House would have been Scott Walker, but he fizzled pretty early in the nomination process.
• Well, conservative Christianity has some pretty honked up ideas about sex, so it’s not surprising they have some strange ideas about the concept of consent.
• He can build a wall via Executive Order. He can force Mexico to choose between a trade war and funding it.
• He can act against Muslims, because, as far as I know, the SCOTUS decision that allowed FDR to intern Japanese-Americans, has never been overturned.
• Okay, to clarify, and I’m sure you guys will do it, no one gives a raging fuck that Trump said the word ‘pussy.’ We’re not scandalized by it. I’m not 6 years old worrying about hell because I heard a ‘dirty’ word. The reason Trump’s statement sucked is because he, and apparently many other conservatives, don’t understand the idea of consent.
• That is, it’s perfectly okay for a woman to dress sexy, act sexy, talk dirty, and have sex and still strongly object to a man thinking that he can touch her body without her consent.
• Have I mentioned lately how much I fucking hate how America runs its elections?
Why does everyone keep saying Paul Ryan is good-looking?
I do think the Supreme Court nomination is a big deal. A really big deal, and it lasts for decades, potentially.
This time next week my kid will be 9 years old and this election will be over, thank god.
Listened on the way to work one morning this week and turned it off in the middle of the bit answering the caller’s question about the “in between” period where you wrestle with what you really think but aren’t ready to share it with others. And i shit you not, about an hour later a guy from church, who I really like and respect, asked me if I wanted to join a small group men’s study through the book of James over about 4 weeks. My first thought was, I’m mostly through my in between phase and I’m pretty sure this group is not going to be all that interested in my honest thoughts on this.
For the record, I attend a Church of Christ with a single service of at most 200 people on Sunday mornings. If I speak up, it will be the equivalent of putting a turd in the punch bowl. It’s a fairly similar approach as Calvary, but with preachers that have degrees from accredited universities and a lot less dispensationalism. And no musical instruments in service, which I enjoy. The worship band thing that developed at mid-90s Calvary and other evangelical congregations (perhaps at different time) is just awful.