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A number of people in know have tried to convince me that they’re only against the “bad ones” and that they consider me one of the “good ones.”
I haven’t heard from those people in quite some time. That might be a good thing.
I find the whole sola fide (that’s Latin for “faith alone”) to be — to use a religious turn of phrase — to be pure horseshit. I’ve met more than my share of people who are devout followers of their particular higher power who use their faith as a cudgel with which to beat anyone they think of as “other” or “lesser.”
My particular take is that good isn’t something you are, but something you do.
Or, to borrow Bojack Horseman’s take on that classic excuse for bad people (“This person may come off as terrible, but deep down, they’re good”)…
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Happy Mother’s Day 2025 — from Shaft!
As is tradition on this blog, let me send out a Mother’s Day greeting from the baaaaddest mother of them all: Shaft!
And now that I’ve invoked Shaft’s name…