comment: >
  
  While I enjoy that piece of stand-up, it doesn’t really grapple with the actual beliefs of any Abrahamic religion. I always get a little frustrated when people say ‘how can bad things happen if there’s a God?’. It is stated multiple times that the world beyond Eden was never designed to be perfect, but imperfect. Even saying stuff like ‘suffering is God’s will’ is a horrific flattening of the fundamental beliefs. 
  Free will necessitates suffering. And, much as I despise the concept and the sexism at the heart of it, Original Sin is a big deal, and essentially believed to be the root of all evil and pain. Essentially, God went hands-off and allowed men to govern themselves. He provides the base necessities for all, but allows men to decide what they will do with them. Even if that is sin. After Eden, there was separation between God and Man.
  So to say ‘why didn’t God fix all the bad things’ misunderstands the doctrine in the first place. Jesus, in the Christian faith, was meant to be the bridge between God and men, to breach some of that isolation of God from men.
context: How can an eight-year-old, in response to years of indoctrination and pressure, make an informed “decision” to be baptized? 
  
  insert photo of a Noah's Ark mobile over a bassinet and a stuffed toy that recites prayers next to an illustrated children's bible >
  
  Based and Anabaptist-pilled >
  
  It is one of the few Anabaptist ideals that I can get behind. Babies have no will to receive the host. Infant baptism as well as children circumcision is abuse. Flat out. >
  
  How are you defining "full" male orgasm? >
  
  I do not understand these people. I do not need sex to feel any better. I'm good. It's awesome. Don't need more nerves. Not even sure what I'd do with them. >
  
  Bro, they cut off your clit… >
  
  It's worth noting that "transgender healthcare" or "gender-affirming care" are broad terms that can include hormonal therapy -- but those terms also include things like therapy with a supportive psychologist, as well as legal support, like for changing your name or gender. 
  Despite disinformation campaigns by anti-LGBTQ radicals, most people support at least some aspects of transgender healthcare once they know what it includes -- and banning all of it isn't policy, but fearmongering.
  The claims that transgender children are "indoctrinated" are dismissible, because the people making those claims tolerate extraordinary pressure on children in other contexts -- and simply by the numbers, childhood religious trauma is a much, much bigger problem than purported harms of transgender healthcare. 
  Which of course isn't the point of this article -- the point is hypocrisy that is required to turn slogans into bad policy, in a way that causes predictable harm. >
  
  Yup- not to mention kids with cancer can make their own decision to go through chemo. Which has way more drawbacks that puberty blockers :/ So why tf are kids allowed their own choices then but not in other cases? Not to be mean to cancer patient kids btw, just a very real example of kids needing to make tough choices for their own health. >
  
  They do not. And even if the parents want to follow the child’s wishes the department of Children and Families can decided to intervene. As in take your kid and make sure they get treatment. >
  
  While true, they aren't doing that in routine cases. Where things like that happen are mostly where there are religious objections to potential lifesaving treatments. And in those cases, they are absolutely right to do so. >
  
  It’s such a horrible position to take. You’re trans but you can’t be trans in our state? 
  Objectively look at the position these states are taking. Regardless if you agree with trans people transitioning, look objectively. What if you were told you can’t dye your hair, get piercings, your hair had to be a length regardless of your preference on length. You had to wear clothes assigned to you. 
  No tattoos, no drinking, smoking, nothing that signals your division from a “norm”. Your body is not yours. >
  
  Makes total sense, sounds like Mormonism to me. You’re obviously not from Utah, that’s exactly how many conservative mormons live their lives. >
  
  I lived in Utah. I am not from Utah though. 
  There is still a large percentage of non-LDS in Utah. The state and religious leaders do not know better than doctors and studies. >
  
  They think they do and that all that matters. They’re still the ones running the show >
  
  Maybe we should send in the government again. Treat them like they used to be treated til they found Utah. >
  
  What makes you think Utah is any worse than say…. Ohio? I didn’t read about raped children leaving Utah to get abortions. The problem here isn’t “Mormons” it’s any and ALL religions. They all do the same thing. Just look what’s happening in Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Florida, pick any religious state. >
  
  I was raised in a family where my grandpa was a Reverend at a a Lutheran-type church. He was super cool cuz he also taught philosophy and world history (at a seminary school). We had a very well-rounded view of religion in general. My mom has always been Agnostic. My dad isn't religious, but cops to praying sometimes. 
  Even as a child, the Baptist side of the family would give us those little books about, "the lake of fire", and I KNEW that that stuff wasn't real. I was five or six years old maybe? By the time it was time to make my "confirmation" (which happened at, like, age 13 or something? I only did it for my grandma), I already knew that religion wasn't for me. Of course I got into "trouble" when they started talking about "woman" coming from "Adam's rib". I literally started laughing out loud and debated the reverend who was leading the class. It caused a big kerfuffle, and I didn't really care. 
  Point being, I have a feeling a lot of kids KNOW at a young age that its all B.S. and are too afraid to say anything and play along. Maybe? >
  
  I think the information age changes things quite a bit. The children have all had tablets and smartphones as long as they can remember—they're digital natives.
  This stand up routine from George Carlin has a timeless quality to it. Peer and family pressure try to drive children into a certain way of thinking...
  
  [George Carlin] But I want you to know something, this is sincere, I want you to know, when it comes to believing in God, I really tried. I really, really tried. I tried to believe that there is a God, who created each of us in His own image and likeness, loves us very much, and keeps a close eye on things. I really tried to believe that, but I gotta tell you, the longer you live, the more you look around, the more you realize, something is fucked up. Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades.
  Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed. Results like these do not belong on the résumé of a Supreme Being. This is the kind of shit you'd expect from an office temp with a bad attitude. And just between you and me, in any decently-run universe, this guy would've been out on his all-powerful ass a long time ago. And by the way, I say "this guy", because I firmly believe, looking at these results, that if there is a God, it has to be a man. No woman could or would ever fuck things up like this. So, if there is a God, I think most reasonable people might agree that he's at least incompetent, and maybe, just maybe, doesn't give a shit.