• Elliott@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Is this a joke about child abuse or controlling women? Sorry, I don’t get it

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      1 year ago

      A “land of milk and honey” is a place of opportunity where one hopes to find a better life. I first heard the term in the song Nancy from Now On by Father John Misty. After looking it up because of this post, at some point in the Bible Israel is described as a land flowing with milk and honey multiple times.

      LAN is short for local area network and only one letter away from land, so a church naming their wifi “Lan of Milk and Honey” crosses the similar sounding technical term related to the wifi with a biblical term related to the church, thereby achieving a pun. I hope that helps you get it!

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        1 year ago

        I’m fully aware of both. My awareness is what prompted the question, in fact.

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          1 year ago

          Then your question was a lame (and ignorant) attack on religion.

          You want child abuse? Look to schools. The stats don’t lie.

          • Elliott@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            The Archdiocese of Boston is filing for bankruptcy in the face of massive sexual abuse cases being brought by victims. Take your invisible friends and your ignorance elsewhere.