(Religion scholar here): It depends on the denomination and the stress which one puts on literality or scholarly investigative works, as well as how much you're willing to incorporate that research into your religious paradigm. The "Virgin Birth" usually strikes people as a more Catholically-founded idea, but even… Read more
Well, it's not totally impossible for virgin birth to occur. There was a fascinating special that ran on one of the Discovery channels a while ago that demonstrated the possibility - although it still involves a man and woman having some, uh, intimate contact, so that wouldn't much work. Read more
Pew's own numbers on the popularity of various religions (which are drawn from intensive interviews with 35,000 people) says that 78.5 percent of Americans self-identify as Christian of some stripe. Which means that the preponderance of this belief is theoretically plausible, because yes, the virgin birth has… Read more
OK, my grandpa was a minister and HE didn't believe in the virgin birth. Jesus H. Christ, people (the H stands for hymen). Read more
I will say that women are much better at combining their binge drinking and binge watching. We all know girls who post stuff like "too cold to go out, looks like it's a "Scandal" and box wine kind of night!" on Facebook or Twitter, and everyone's like "LOL, you do you, girl!" or whatever. I feel like guys can only own… Read more
Sorry ladies. Your boozing and binge watching is second rate at best. You simply can't compete with people who happily sacrifice 10 years of their life span just to enjoy the simple joy of stuffing our faces with pizza and beer while melting our brains via shitty Scify shows. Read more
You know, you hear the snippets and lyrics of that song all the time- I think that's the first time I've seen it in video. Holy crap! It's such a delightfully angry song! Read more
Ok, but...binge-watching? I totally love and understand binge-watching, but how is it a derailer to your weight loss goals? Are these people going on a TV watching binge every single night when they get home? I manage to get a sufficient number of workouts in a week and then do my binge-watching on the weekends. … Read more
The Richmond PD's Chief Magnus sent out this request today.
A previous manager (worked in high-end retail) got her start in at Walmart and she said this thing would happen quite often in the layaway department around Christmas time. People would come up, cash or card in hand, ask for an account that hadn't been paid off or asked there was an account that had a certain standing… Read more
YOU GUYS. If you live in Bellingham, Massachusetts, you have to be super nice to every bubbly older woman you see from now on. Just in case it's her. Read more
I'm going to let you finish but no one talks about sex like Sue Johanson.
Deep in the pockets of the sinister Paisley Mafia and the powerful Oversized Hair Clip Lobby Read more
OK reading the people who are disappointed that this is trope-central, I'm gonna take a stab at defending it. Read more
Jessica Williams is the best thing that's ever happened to the Daily Show. Read more