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23d ago
Dolmant, the Cammorian pastor, the girl from Elfstones of Shannara, a decent chunk of the priests in Babylon 5 (though not so much the Minbari religious caste), Bareil, the Imperial Cult, the Tribunal Temple, and Miriam Godwinson, at least, do priestly stuff on-screen.
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23d ago
I don't think any of those gentlemen have said that there aren't hot sixty-year-old women (East Asians are notorious for this) or that sixty-year-old men always look attractive. They just said that the former can't have kids and the latter can. (If some of them have said the wrong statement, well, they're wrong.)
In case I'm one of the people you're counting as "some of the gentlemen", I would remind you that what I said was that the chances of making four kids with a woman who's already past 30 when you meet her start to get dicey.
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24d ago
I thought about mentioning the dates, but I've not actually consumed much post-2010 Western media.
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24d ago
Ignoring Japanese media for reasons others have alluded to.
David Eddings' Elenium has at the very least Sephrenia, Dolmant and the Cammorian pastor, and more broadly essentially all the non-royal Good Guys (there's some degree of question whether explicitly-religious crusading paladins count as priests or not). The main bad guys are a corrupt priest trying to take over the fantasy stand-in for Christianity (but not succeeding), a corrupt paladin, and a priest of an evil god. There are a couple of good priests in the Malloreon, too, but the vast majority of the priests in the Belgariad/Malloreon are bad (unless you count Belgarath/Polgara as priests, which is complicated).
Terry Brooks' Elfstones of Shannara has one of the characters be a straight-up religious martyr, overcoming a crisis of faith and all. I'm not sure it'd entirely pass reactionary muster, though, seeing as she's a priestess and men explicitly couldn't accomplish what she did for vague magic reasons. The Word and the Void trilogy is also to a large extent about a paladin.
Babylon 5, of course, has a whole pile of good priests including some actual Christian ones. I think the only evil priest is the insane Soul Hunter who's explicitly disavowed by the rest of the Soul Hunters.
Deep Space Nine has a few non-evil priests, although the Space Pope is evil for 70% of the series. Sisko himself is, again, complicated.
I've only played Morrowind of the Elder Scrolls games, but in Morrowind the Imperial Cult are straight-up good guys, and despite the main quests of vanilla/Tribunal taking a wrecking-ball to it, the Tribunal Temple clearly has a lot of good in it as well (just also a fair bit of rot).
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri is... complicated, since all the faction leaders are supposed to have good and bad qualities, but Deirdre Skye and Miriam Godwinson are canonically two of the nicer ones, and they're both priests, Miriam a Christian one (though in-game the AI for Miriam keeps trying to kill you for not being a theocracy).
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27d ago
As deranged as this worldview might sound, it has real-world consequences, as when one prize nutcase attempted to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, under the explicit reasoning that the Supreme Court’s voting to repeal Roe v. Wade would result in a spike in births across the US.4
Linked sources and their own linked sources do not substantiate this claim (that the specific opposition to repealing RvW was an anti-natalist one). Do you have a source that actually substantiates this?
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28d ago
My anger isn't with your description of people as "whiny".
My anger is with your proposed remedy. I don't know exactly what you went through as a kid, but I know what I went through. You've had the highlights reel of Mum; here's the highlights reel of school.
- Held down by two boys while four or so others took turns trying to punch me in the balls
- Walked on, literally
- Had a point-up needle affixed to my chair with wax
- Arm broken
- Tooth knocked out
- Tried to strangle myself to death at 7 (seven) to get away from all the teasing.
I do not, in fact, think I needed to be bullied more. I do not, in fact, think other aspies should go through that hell. I doubt it'd even make us less whiny, aside from the minority who'd be too dead to whine.
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29d ago
You needed to be bullied more at school and maybe slapped around a bit by your parents, to teach you to toughen up and stop. bloody. whining.
I would have expected you to take a little more care to avoid calling for people who complain of oppression to be beaten by stronger people until they shut up, Deiseach, given how often you denounce the "beat the feminism out of them" brigade as barbaric.
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29d ago
If Trump were to die of natural causes tomorrow my heart would want to rejoice, but my head knows that Vance is probably more dangerous.
This is part of why I would be rejoicing, ironically, although a larger part is that Vance would be far better at leading the free world should WWIII occur.
I will also add that I have an eidetic memory, so lists like this are inflated compared to what normal people are capable of.
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