Friday, December 20, 2024

Nathan's Brocolli Cheddar Soup Dip

Since people have been asking for it, here's the recipe! - - - Broccoli Cheddar Soup. Ingredients 1 1/2 cups chopped, cooked broccoli 1 cup raw shredded carrots 1 4 oz can of sliced mushrooms, drained 3 cups shredded sharp cheddar 1/2 of an onion, minced 6 tablespoons of unsalted butter 1/4th cup flour 2 cups milk 2 cups chicken stock 1 pinch of salt - - - Method 1.Melt 2 tablespoons of butter over medium heat, add the onion with a pinch of salt, to help them sweat. Cook the onions until they start getting clear, then add the mushrooms. When the onions start to brown slightly, add the carrots. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the carrots are soft and slightly brown. 2.Melt 4 tablespoons of butter over medium-low heat then whisk in the flour, cook until the flour stops looking grainy, about 4 minutes. You want a pretty light roux here, so stop before it gets too dark. 3.Gradually add the milk to the roux while whisking constantly. Then whisk in the stock. Bring to a simmer and cook about 20 minutes. 4.Stir in your broccoli, making sure it's thorughly mixed, simmer for 2 minutes, then add your sauteed vegetables. Simmer for 15 minutes. 5.Gradually add the shredded cheese, stirring to make sure it doesn't get clumpy. Remove from the heat...And you're done! Salt and pepper to taste. - - - Optional: You can mess around with the ingredients, if you want too. You can use half broccoli and half cauliflower. Some people like celery, I don't. More carrots, bit of garlic, skip the mushrooms, etc. However you think you would like it. You can have fun with the cheese, too. Two cups must to be shredded sharp cheddar, but the third cup can be other things. I added a bit parmesan and monterey jack because I had it on hand. Very tasty. Goes great with your preferred bread, crackers or croutons. It would probably go great with some of sourdough that you're statistically likely to have made recently. Sliced, toasted and buttered, you know? Enjoy~ Nathan

Thursday, August 08, 2024

Tuesday, July 30, 2024

fire girl with bananas

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Tuesday, April 09, 2024

The Rapture

. . If I believed in the Rapture, I would also believe that politicians and megachurch leaders would be the last to know. They would even deny it had occurred. In fact, it must have been some evil liberal Democratic plot. . . . The Rapture would just be people saying, "Where did that couple who were nice and helped everyone go? All those good, friendly, quiet people just seem to have disappeared."

Monday, January 29, 2024

Homosexuality and religion in America


The actual History of Christianity is overwhelmingly opposed to homosexuality. In modern revised Church histories.

The sin of the residents of Sodom and Gomorrah was not who they had sex with but in not welcoming strangers, read the story again if this was not what you were told.

Christian denominations hold a variety of views on homosexual sex, ranging from outright condemnation to complete acceptance. Throughout the majority of Christian history, most Christian theologians and denominations have considered homosexual sex as immoral or sinful.

Orthodox Judaism views homosexual acts as sinful. In recent years, there have been approaches claiming that only the sexual anal act is forbidden and considered an abomination by the Torah, while sexual orientation and even other sexual activities are not considered a sin. Conservative Judaism has engaged in an in-depth study of homosexuality since the 1990s, with various rabbis presenting a wide array of responsa (papers with legal arguments) for communal consideration. The official position of the movement is to welcome homosexual Jews into their synagogues, and also campaign against any discrimination in civil law and public society, but also to uphold a ban on anal sex as a religious requirement.

Reform Judaism and Reconstructionist Judaism in North America and Liberal Judaism in the United Kingdom view homosexuality to be acceptable on the same basis as heterosexuality. Progressive Jewish authorities believe either that traditional laws against homosexuality are no longer binding or that they are subject to changes that reflect a new understanding of human sexuality. Some of these authorities rely on modern biblical scholarship suggesting that the prohibition in the Torah was intended to ban coercive or ritualized male-male sex, such as those practices ascribed to Egyptian and Canaanite fertility cults and temple prostitution.

Liberal Christians are generally supportive of homosexuals. Some Christian denominations do not view monogamous same-sex relationships as bad or evil. These include the United Church of Canada, the United Church of Christ, the Episcopal Church, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the churches of the Old Catholic Union of Utrecht, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, the Church of Sweden, the Lutheran, reformed and united churches in Evangelical Church of Germany, the Church of Denmark, the Icelandic Church, the Church of Norway and the Protestant Church of the Netherlands. In particular, the Metropolitan Community Church, a denomination of 40,000 members, was founded specifically to serve the Christian LGBT community and is devoted to being open and affirming to LGBT people. The United Church of Christ and the Alliance of Baptists also condone gay marriage, and some parts of the Anglican and Lutheran churches allow for the blessing of gay unions. Within the Anglican communion, there are openly gay clergy; for example, Gene Robinson and Mary Glasspool are openly homosexual bishops in the US Episcopal Church, and Eva Brunne in the Lutheran Church of Sweden. The Episcopal Church's recent actions vis-a-vis homosexuality have brought about increased ethical debate and tension within the Church of England and worldwide Anglican churches. In the United States and many other nations, religious people are becoming more affirming of same-sex relationships. Even those in denominations with official stances are liberalizing, though not as quickly as those in more affirming religious groups.

Public opinion of same-sex marriage in the United States has significantly changed since the 1990s, and an overwhelming majority of Americans now favor same-sex marriage

And then you have the conservative Christians, but they ignore the words of Jesus teaching love and are going to Hell.

You have to be an extremely intolerant religious conservative to not believe in love.

My opinion as a non-gay. .

Tuesday, December 12, 2023