Maybe you should contact the Mormon church and request a visit from two male missionaries. Who knows, maybe all three of you will have testimonies afterwards. 
SupremeAC said:Exactly. Now let me convince you that our own Belgian French Fries are the real deal, and your McDo fries are crap. All hail the true fries!
I won't pretend that McDonald's has the best fries in the world. Honestly, they lost that honor around 1990 when they switch to a vegetable oil to cook their fries in instead of the original animal based oils.
Now I can't say that I've had the honor of having Belgian fries before. However, I will say that in the past 10 years my favorite fries have come from Cuban restaurants.
travo said:Fair point. Church numbers are certainly dwindling here as well.
And oddly evangelicals have more power in this country than they've had in the past 30 years, despite fewer people regularly attending church. Funny how that works.
But hey, look at that. We went from dead missionaries, to French fries, back to politics.
Benny Hinn is always good for a laugh.
Not per se politics, but a new law was passed here that states that in case parents want to dispute their sibbling's results, they'll need to prove that their kid should have passed themselves. Up to now, schools needed to provide the proof that the child really did not warrant passing to the next year.
This backwards rule has resulted in schools being very reluctant to not let kids pass, even if they clearly lack the knowledge and skills to do so, because most parents can't fathom the thought that their little snowflake just isn't up to it. Which then of course results in the bar being lowered for everyone and our level of education plumitting even further.
It's a small, but sane, step towards turning this boat around and I fully endorse this. Hopefully people will share my point of view and we don't get some dumb ass committee that wants to challenge this and tries to get it undone.
Former Italian prime minister Berlusconi died. Current prime minister calls hime 'one of the most important men in Italian history'. Current prime minister happens to be from the extreme right faction as well.
Always good to know that politicans have a healthy sense of perspective.
So, the church... Not politics, but I couldn't stomach making a seperate thread for it.
There's this documentary series on TV now about child abuse in the church and while I don't watch cable, some of it trickles down to the written press. Whatever I'm reading is downright abhorent. In every institution where the church was working with kids -and those were many, as the church had a monopoly on decent schooling at the time- it seems that there was abuse, often normalised and happening on a wide scale. There was this one example that was so horrific I'm not even going to write it down. Suffice to say, that woman has been scarred for life. I was taken so aback by it that I had to actually sit down.
Cover up stories, proof -whole files- that were made to disappear, people being paid off to shut them up. It was so systemic that it boggles the mind.
I think faith is a pretty cool thing in and of its own. I might not believe in it, but that's besides the point. It gives people a sense of community, something sorely lacking in most of society today. But the church itself can get stuffed.
It's hard to tell whether abuse in the church is worse than in other institutions with similar powers, because the church has lost a lot of power and prestige (unrelated to abuse) over recent years, and other institutions have not, so it's acceptable for this sort of stuff to come out now. But I don't know anything about Belgium in this regard, so wouldn't be able to comment. Awful either way.
Putin has given a press conference in which he stated that Prigozjin's plane came down because a hand granade was detonated from the inside. He then insinuated that they were probably all drunk and high.
Well, that's another case closed then. 
Good thing we've got Putin to tell us how stuff really, probably, maybe happened. Also happy to hear that he wasn't behind it himself as to get rid of a former ally who became unreliable. Because if so, Putin surely would have told us during his press conference.
Putin: Ulraine started the war and all we really want is peace
Also Putin
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The resemblance is striking. What can't AI do these days?
The Israelian ambassador appeared at a UN meeting wearing a David-star.
This is such an amount of wrong on so many levels. I'm happy to hear that even withing Israel some voices are stating that this was a very bad move indeed.
What happened to the Jewish people throughout history is a tragedy and inexcusible, but to refer to that as a kind of moral free pass to be able to inflict as much harm as you want on a populace yourself is repulsive.
I know it'll never happen, but it'd be nice if the US would, for once, reprimand Israel instead of just blindly supporting whatever they do.
The American view on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict has been lopsided for ages and I've always felt uncomfortable with that. The rhetoric about this conflict is so strong though that nothing will ever change. The map of that area looks like swiss cheese with the arab states and jewish states. I'm not sure how you can even govern properly like that.
travo said:The American view on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict has been lopsided for ages and I've always felt uncomfortable with that. The rhetoric about this conflict is so strong though that nothing will ever change. The map of that area looks like swiss cheese with the arab states and jewish states. I'm not sure how you can even govern properly like that.
Yep, bad is bad. Obviously the terror attack is horrific. But constant oppression and wiping out buildings and homes that end up killing tons of innocent Palestinians is also you know kind of terror like... but can't say that here cause this country is crazy.
There hasn't been much good news in here lately (if ever?), so let me be the first to announce that Henry Kissinger is dead. 
Please tell the missionaries I like their style! 😎