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[–] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 1 points 41 minutes ago

They go against porn but not raw dogging to hash out clones for the glory of the empire. Wonderful.

[–] randon31415@lemmy.world 17 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

"Willful childlessness?" Is that like the opposite of incel? Volcel?

[–] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 17 minutes ago) (2 children)

Lol, you don't have to be celibate to be willfully childless. I have plenty of friends that got the snip/knot before having a kid because they don't want one. And they are some of the sluttiest motherfuckers I know (and they'd take that as the compliment it was).

[–] TonyOstrich@lemmy.world 1 points 13 minutes ago

Did it in my mid 20s before it was all the rage. Couldn't be happier.

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

The snip was the best money I ever spent. I wear condoms because I don't want a disease, but one thing I ain't worried about is getting someone pregnant.

[–] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 hour ago

Same, though the nice thing about being in a (largish) polycule is that someone gets tested every few months

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 hours ago

Oh, cool! As a willfully childless person (even though I live with my partner and we have the necessary bits to try for children), I finally get to be one of the cool groups being ostracized by these stupid religious nuts. Hey Queer people! We get to hang out! Let's party!

(I've been watching porn the whole time. Just let me have my moment feeling special.)

[–] libre@badatbeing.social 4 points 2 hours ago

Sorry chuds that's not going to cure your incel problem. You can't suddenly make people produce future generations by banning what you don't like.

[–] riskable@programming.dev 81 points 6 hours ago (5 children)

support policies that promote childbearing.

...like making abortion legal in all 50 states again? Like comprehensive sex education in schools? Like treating women as people and not property?

The most effective way for the Southern Baptists to promote childbearing would be for them to stay the fuck out of politics!

[–] turtlesareneat@discuss.online 9 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Part of conservatism is the idea that "the more complex a solution is, the wronger it is."

Another part is "We should be able to control women's use of their hoo-hoos for pleasure by restricting them to being baby chambers."

Here we have a venn diagram where the circles are the same.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 4 points 2 hours ago

Easy way to rule these fuckers out is to get them to say "vagina"

If they can't do it without giggling, offence, or claiming obscenity, out they go

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 43 points 6 hours ago

Abortion policies are a DIRECT REASON why I haven't had any more children. If I can't have guaranteed access to necessary, life-saving medical treatment (e.g. emergency abortions) then I won't put my wife's life at risk for one more child.

[–] MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com 10 points 4 hours ago

Note them prioritizing childbearing and not childrearing. Though they also aren't prioritizing childbearing regardless of what they say.

[–] evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 19 points 6 hours ago

Southern baptists were pro-choice until the rise of the "moral majority" required southern baptists to fall in line with the catholic church on abortion to create the supply side Jesus we know today.

[–] Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world 11 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

I was kinda annoyed at the article for not giving any details on the kinds of policies they wanted there, even something as simple as better tax credits for having kids would go a long way towards making children affordable. And yet I am sure that's not what these people are advocating for.

[–] RealSpiderLane@lemmy.zip 9 points 5 hours ago

Note that none of these policies ever involve “giving.” It’s all taking this away, means-testing this, banning that, etc.

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[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 95 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I've never know a happy Southern Baptist. I'm not interested in being as miserable as them.

[–] KingOfSleep@lemmy.ca 63 points 6 hours ago

The Southern Baptist only exist because the other Baptists were against slavery. Fuck every single one of them.

[–] Beryl@jlai.lu 53 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

"We are miserable and we want you to be too !"

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 27 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (3 children)

Willful childlessness is such a hilarious concept. I'm rollin' around here.

What are they gonna do? Check if you're having unprotected sex sufficiently? Check how many miscarriages you've had? HAHAHAHAh. Fuckin' donkeys.

edit: Small gubment.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 hours ago

They won't care if some of the women they hurt were genuinely trying to comply.

[–] ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Oh. I guess I read that wrong as "willful childishness" and thought they were just being kind of petty at the end.

[–] Archer@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

To be fair, that would be completely on brand for them

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 13 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

Ban birth control in your area.

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[–] MerrySkeptic@sh.itjust.works 35 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

So if they want to use their influence for political ends, why are they tax exempt?

[–] Oyml77@lemmy.today 7 points 2 hours ago

Because the law doesn't matter when right-wing Jesus is on your side.

[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 10 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Gtfo with your logic. We don't want your kind here.

- Jezus, probably

[–] AnalogNotDigital@lemmy.wtf 10 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Southern Baptists are one step better than Al Queda in my mind. They should be outlawed as an extremist group.

[–] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 hours ago

That's only because they don't have the religious law in place yet.

[–] Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world 38 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

That stance against sports betting annoys me so much, because that means I can't just look at everything they stand for and say I want the opposite.

[–] CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 18 points 6 hours ago

Yeah, predatory ads for gambling really drive me crazy. Although I'd say my reasoning for being against it is pretty different from the Baptists.

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 27 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

I'm so tired of religious extremists trying to force their shitty Puritanical views on the whole world.

[–] Flamekebab@piefed.social 1 points 2 hours ago

Fleeing "religious persecution" in Europe, as they called it.

[–] themadcodger@kbin.earth 12 points 5 hours ago

And since Blue States contribute more to taxes than they take, and vice versa for red, we are literally funding them dragging us back to the dark ages.

[–] RotatingParts@lemmy.ml 25 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

All people have to do is stop donating money to religions and the religions lose their "power".

[–] CXORA@aussie.zone 1 points 2 hours ago

The problem is the people who do donate want all this to happen.

[–] ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 17 points 6 hours ago

The cult members just have to stop supporting the cult?!?

[–] tate@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Look at captain obvious over here!

I'm kidding you a bit, but seriously, you're just restating the problem.

[–] RotatingParts@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago

Maybe it needs restating over and over until people get it and act on it?

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[–] RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world 15 points 6 hours ago

Fuck your religion

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 14 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Southern Baptists? I think you left out all their other usual targets: Catholics, spicy food, jazz, orgasms for fun, bright colors not associated with flags or maybe a football team, female orgasms, singing, alcohol, drag shows, salads with less than 51% mayonnaise content, men using umbrellas, single mothers, showing people kissing on TV or movies, Jews, Muslims, really any brown person, wasabi, mangoes, and aged cheese.

[–] Lucelu2@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 hours ago

Dancing, you left out dancing and.. fun. Short shorts, miniskirts and bikinis.

[–] themadcodger@kbin.earth 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Since you brought up salad, any lettuce other than iceberg, lest we forget arugala-gate

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[–] Schmoo@startrek.website 9 points 5 hours ago

As someone who left the Southern Baptist cult as soon as my brain developed, this is nothing new.

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 11 points 6 hours ago

Baptist like to pick people who drank, did drugs and slept around to teach sunday school. This is no joke. They get some 'reformed' asshole with questionable decision making skills to instruct children and warn them of the dangers of having a good time.

[–] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

The Southern Baptist Church is a Satanic cult. If your religion leads you to hate, you are not worshiping God, you're worshiping the Devil. They're devil worshipers, the whole lot of them.

[–] CXORA@aussie.zone 2 points 2 hours ago

Nah, the devil is chill. They're a Christian cult.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 hours ago

Their god killed everyone who wasn't on the Ark. It's not them doing religion wrong; it's a severe case of religion.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

Please spend all your time on sports betting. Let Them Fight. Let those two rapacious vile Industries go after each other.

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