Yeah, giant ego + massive insecurity screams Scorpio to me 🙄😂

Yep! We’ve got some cute photos of me and Don and baby AJ there, too.

Oh good! I love it so much, I was really sad thinking it might have closed for good.

I’m not sure if it’s open again, tho, since he died. 😢

Oh yeah.

…well, that fucking sucks. Ugh.

Oh yes, she IS amazing. I’ve been listening to her for a couple of years 😄

I also use brandy and Cointreau. It’s a high proof dish 😂

Most of the people I’ve known who believed this would be OUTRAGED at the suggestion, because they don’t even consider Catholics to “count” as Christians.

Yes, but not from Missouri Evangelicals.

I mean I’m cis and I fully cannot imagine having this interaction with my mother, AND I’m so glad that you did! 💖

Oh man, and I love a Biblically accurate angel. 😄

I also have to say the messy bitch in me LIVES for interdenominational conflict—I was just explaining Missouri Synod Lutherans to someone this morning—so now I REALLY wish I’d ever thought to ask some of the “mainstream” Evangelical Protestants specifically what points of JW belief they objected to!

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EXACTLY. The whole idea of Satan as essentially equivalent in power to God, which has basically never been “official” doctrine in Christianity, but is super common in folk belief and practice, along with frequent ideas about the material world as inherently evil and/or illusory in some way.

I grew up in the Bible Belt in an agnostic family, leading to a religious studies BA—I always found Evangelical folk theology re: Satan FASCINATING as a lot of it is basically indistinguishable from 4th c. Gnostic heresy. And I knew some JWs but not about the Hell thing—I guess it never came up? 😂