LGBT anti-bullying campaign poster...

[Thinking Aloud]

A distant relative just posted this on FB. It's a poster issued to mark an LGBT "wear purple" anti-bullying campaign.



I guess everything will be alright then.

I wish I could respond somehow, tactfully, but I don't know where to start ...

[Robert_S]

That's why he gave you the special opportunity to suffer from our superstitious prohibition against living and loving as fully as you can, so be grateful you filthy sinners!

[rachelbean]

That's why he gave you the special opportunity to suffer from our superstitious prohibition against living and loving as fully as you can, so be grateful you filthy sinners!

The Episcopal church (of which Bishop Robinson is part of) doesn't subscribe to that belief. There are openly gay members, even priests. My last years in the church were spent in the Episcopal one and I met some really beautiful and wonderful people, including a priest who was an atheist. While the belief in god most of them share might be misguided, if they want to focus their life on love and compassion it definitely doesn't bother me. If you check out the site, you'll see it's all about love and, "that's the whole story" http://ourspiritnow.org/ While I'd love to see someone come to the realization there is no god, for someone who is struggling and feeling condemned because of their belief in God which they hold deeply, I'm glad there are organizations like this out there.

[Robert_S]

I'll still not be satisfied until they strike all the homophobic verses from the Bible.

But I guess their hearts are in the right place, so I may glower a little less menacingly as I pass by the local Episcopal church.

[Thinking Aloud]

I guess I'm just seeing a deep and unfunny irony in "god" being the cause and solution all in one.

[rachelbean]

I guess I'm just seeing a deep and unfunny irony in "god" being the cause and solution all in one.

Oh, I get it. It makes me wince. I am just drawing from personal experience, recognizing the bishops name and all

[Geoff]

He obviously doesn't know just how wild our "wildest imaginings" are...

[Feck]

I think It's sad that you can't be seen as a nurturing caring family community without being a church and dragging the sky fairy into it .It's not that I can bare such seemingly nice people much ill will .




mind you I do feel a little creeped out by nice people in general

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I'll still not be satisfied until they strike all the homophobic verses from the Bible.

If they removed all the stupid shit from the Babble it would be two pages long.

[Audley Strange]

I'll still not be satisfied until they strike all the homophobic verses from the Bible.

But I guess their hearts are in the right place, so I may glower a little less menacingly as I pass by the local Episcopal church.

Actually I think they should add more outrageous negative bullshit to it, stuff so absurd and demented that anyone who doesn't abandon it would be sectioned.

You know stuff like "And Jesus said "he who haveth the face of a goat is more blessed than he who haveth no hair, but God loveth the bald man above all excepteth the man who have hair, or not. Blessed be the bald goat faced hairy ones for they will enter the kindgom first and last whereas the hairy goat faced bald ones will enter the kingdom last but they shall be the first. Let God stike down any who believe these words and those who do not believe these words for these are the words of the living God, except they are not the words of the living God. Let he who understandeth this leaveth no offspring and jump from the tallest cliff into the sea, for they have wisdom."

[Feck]

bald goat faced hairy ones

[laklak]

"And Jesus said "he who haveth the face of a goat is more blessed than he who haveth no hair, but God loveth the bald man above all excepteth the man who have hair, or not. Blessed be the bald goat faced hairy ones for they will enter the kindgom first and last whereas the hairy goat faced bald ones will enter the kingdom last but they shall be the first. Let God stike down any who believe these words and those who do not believe these words for these are the words of the living God, except they are not the words of the living God. Let he who understandeth this leaveth no offspring and jump from the tallest cliff into the sea, for they have wisdom."

You have a fine future in the priesthood, my child.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

"And Jesus said "he who haveth the face of a goat is more blessed than he who haveth no hair, but God loveth the bald man above all excepteth the man who have hair, or not. Blessed be the bald goat faced hairy ones for they will enter the kindgom first and last whereas the hairy goat faced bald ones will enter the kingdom last but they shall be the first. Let God stike down any who believe these words and those who do not believe these words for these are the words of the living God, except they are not the words of the living God. Let he who understandeth this leaveth no offspring and jump from the tallest cliff into the sea, for they have wisdom."

You have a fine future in the priesthood, my child.

Reported.

[Audley Strange]

"And Jesus said "he who haveth the face of a goat is more blessed than he who haveth no hair, but God loveth the bald man above all excepteth the man who have hair, or not. Blessed be the bald goat faced hairy ones for they will enter the kindgom first and last whereas the hairy goat faced bald ones will enter the kingdom last but they shall be the first. Let God stike down any who believe these words and those who do not believe these words for these are the words of the living God, except they are not the words of the living God. Let he who understandeth this leaveth no offspring and jump from the tallest cliff into the sea, for they have wisdom."

You have a fine future in the priesthood, my child.

Nah, I don't want to have anything to do with world's largest publically funded paedophile ring, no matter how established it is, thanks.

[Audley Strange]

bald goat faced hairy ones

DIE HERETIC!!!!!