“We wanted to honor her tireless commitment to feeding, comforting, correcting, bathing, transporting, and not losing any children,” organizers said. OAK BROOK, USA — Local stay-at-home mother Emily Parker received a rare public honor Tuesday for successfully raising three occasionally frustrating but generally delightful children through another ordinary week of snacks, laundry, carpool lines, sibling disputes, scraped knees, bedtime stalling, and at least one mysterious sticky substance. Parker’s GoFundMe, titled “Help Emily Continue Doing The Thing Everyone Says Is The Most Important Job In The World,” reached $22 by Tuesday afternoon, thanks to the generosity of three anonymous donors. Organizers also presented her with a six-piece Chicken McNuggets meal, though witnesses confirmed two nuggets were immediately claimed by her youngest child. “Emily has faithfully kept all three children alive, cared for, mostly clean, and emotionally secure despite several mood swings—hers and their...
Calvinist Declared Gnostic After Failing to Treat “God Is Love” as a Complete Soteriological Argument
The evidence included one theological disagreement, three false dilemmas, and a book the accuser had not read. GRAND RAPIDS, MI — A faithful Calvinist at First Reformed Church reportedly discovered he was secretly a Gnostic this week after a free-will theist assembled a theological prosecution from slogans, assumptions, and one Bible phrase involving voluntary donations. “God is love,” the investigator began. “Therefore, unconditional election is impossible, because love gives everyone libertarian free will.” When the Calvinist asked how that conclusion followed, the investigator changed the subject to human responsibility, then to robots, then to fairness. “If God determines your choices, you’re a machine,” he declared. “If you’re a machine, you can’t be guilty. If you can’t be guilty, Calvinism denies sin. And if Calvinism denies sin, it’s basically Gnosticism.” The Calvinist explained that Reformed theology does not deny that people make choices, but disputes whether freedom re...