Ridiculous things to do with religion

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Re: Ridiculous things to do with religion

Post by Clinton Huxley » Tue Sep 25, 2012 7:15 am

Thinking Aloud wrote:Because "love", God exists.
A personal favourite. I went to a wedding where the wizard ranted on about god being love and love being god for about 15 minutes. It was excruciating.
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Re: Ridiculous things to do with religion

Post by colubridae » Tue Sep 25, 2012 7:21 am

Clinton Huxley wrote:
Thinking Aloud wrote:Because "love", God exists.
A personal favourite. I went to a wedding where the wizard ranted on about god being love and love being god for about 15 minutes. It was excruciating.
I have a long-term friend who is an anglican wizard.
I went to her licencing ceremony. Yes, believe or not, it's called licencing. :biggrin:

She said in her address to the cong "God is good because he keeps his promises" FFFS
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Re: Ridiculous things to do with religion

Post by Rum » Tue Sep 25, 2012 7:26 am

The last funeral I went to was overseen by a wizard too. It was the first since I decided wizards were completely full of shit, rather than maybe/probably;y full of shit.

His stuff about my dead auntie going to a better place where her life would be better than the one she had just departed and all of that rung so completely hollow and untrue to an extent that surprised even me. I could have screamed at the man. The victory of wishful thinking over hard reality and the ability for one group of scheming people to exploit that....

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Re: Ridiculous things to do with religion

Post by Thinking Aloud » Tue Sep 25, 2012 8:04 am

I got that same feeling at the last family funeral I went to. http://rationalia.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... 56&p=66499

So, yeah. Ridiculous.

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Re: Ridiculous things to do with religion

Post by colubridae » Tue Sep 25, 2012 8:12 am

colubridae wrote:
Clinton Huxley wrote:
Thinking Aloud wrote:Because "love", God exists.
A personal favourite. I went to a wedding where the wizard ranted on about god being love and love being god for about 15 minutes. It was excruciating.
I have a long-term friend who is an anglican wizard.
I went to her licencing ceremony. Yes, believe or not, it's called licencing. :biggrin:

She said in her address to the cong "God is good because he keeps his promises" FFFS
Having not been to any services for some time before this (the previous being her ordination) one of the things that struck me intensely was the change of speech mode from the honcho wizard. He gave a sermon with a very chatty style of speech. At the end of which, a prayer was made. The change of voice and speech style was quite startling. Suddenly it became very solemn, obsequious. It was as if it was a signal to the cong to get serious. Difficult not to laugh. Mrs Col digging me in ribs helped.
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Re: Ridiculous things to do with religion

Post by Thinking Aloud » Tue Sep 25, 2012 8:14 am

"Lettuce prey"

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Re: Ridiculous things to do with religion

Post by JimC » Tue Sep 25, 2012 8:57 am

Thinking Aloud wrote:"Lettuce prey"
Thinks predator thought...

"Small furry animal prey" is better...
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Re: Ridiculous things to do with religion

Post by colubridae » Tue Sep 25, 2012 9:00 am

JimC wrote:
Thinking Aloud wrote:"Lettuce prey"
Thinks predator thought...

"Small furry animal prey" is better...
What kind of prey does a lettuce hunt? :hehe:
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Re: Ridiculous things to do with religion

Post by FBM » Tue Sep 25, 2012 9:01 am

Work, study, research, sweat and train your ass off for 10 years to make it to the top of your chosen sport or field, then thank an invisible friend for making it happen. :fp:
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Re: Ridiculous things to do with religion

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Tue Sep 25, 2012 11:28 am

colubridae wrote:
JimC wrote:
Thinking Aloud wrote:"Lettuce prey"
Thinks predator thought...

"Small furry animal prey" is better...
What kind of prey does a lettuce hunt? :hehe:
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Re: Ridiculous things to do with religion

Post by Mysturji » Wed Oct 17, 2012 10:21 pm

If God hates atheists/infidels/homosexuals/adulterers so much, why did he make so many of them?
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Re: Ridiculous things to do with religion

Post by Tero » Wed Oct 17, 2012 10:23 pm

Clinton Huxley wrote:
Thinking Aloud wrote:Because "love", God exists.
A personal favourite. I went to a wedding where the wizard ranted on about god being love and love being god for about 15 minutes. It was excruciating.
Wait you let him off? You should have asked him to explain if love or god was there first. The guests could move on to the beer or stay. :cheers:

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Re: Ridiculous things to do with religion

Post by Mysturji » Wed Oct 17, 2012 10:40 pm

My definition of religion:

A bunch of people sitting in a dark room, believing that it's a beautiful, warm, sunny day outside and telling each other they're right, and anyone who disagrees is thrown out into the cold, dark night.
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Re: Ridiculous things to do with religion

Post by amused » Thu Oct 18, 2012 2:07 am

Religion is something that we would be extremely embarrassed about if we were somehow transported to the future. Hopefully, the NEAR future.

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Re: Ridiculous things to do with religion

Post by rasetsu » Thu Oct 18, 2012 3:12 am




Yar! Stupid Shakta Kali worse shippers! Tinking God is a wimmenz!


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