With many Republicans refusing to back more government spending, Democrats supplied the bulk of the votes to extend federal funding through early 2024.
Yep. Grew up in multiple fundamentalist Baptist churches. Every guy I knew who did this either had "slipped up" once, had developed an addiction, or had an intense fear of it.
In my experience, most of them did it because of fear. They were super paranoid that letting their guard down for the briefest moment would cause them to destroy their lives and their families. I was even taught that I would basically be tempted to violate women at all times if they showed their skin; and that it would be their fault of course.
It seems like there's broadly two types of fundamentalist churches. One where it's a hypocritical good old boys club, and the other is a place where everyone lives in constant fear of pissing off God and having their lives destroyed. "Did you hear X has cancer? I wonder they did to deserve that?" levels of fear. Grew up mostly in the latter. Though I think each church is at least a little bit of both.
Yep. Grew up in multiple fundamentalist Baptist churches. Every guy I knew who did this either had "slipped up" once, had developed an addiction, or had an intense fear of it.
In my experience, most of them did it because of fear. They were super paranoid that letting their guard down for the briefest moment would cause them to destroy their lives and their families. I was even taught that I would basically be tempted to violate women at all times if they showed their skin; and that it would be their fault of course.
It seems like there's broadly two types of fundamentalist churches. One where it's a hypocritical good old boys club, and the other is a place where everyone lives in constant fear of pissing off God and having their lives destroyed. "Did you hear X has cancer? I wonder they did to deserve that?" levels of fear. Grew up mostly in the latter. Though I think each church is at least a little bit of both.