The Religion Thread

[homerfobe]

That always cracks me up, Sometime Lefty.

Our Lady of the Rockies above Butte, Montana





Since many consider Butte to be a hell hole this is the same dichotomy we may see in OKC, but on a much grander scale.

Your first image crapped out. Is that really a statue? Looks like an alien spacecraft from some sci-fi flick.
I'm surprised the ACLU hasn't shit a brick over that one too---oh wait, is that a religious symbol?

[bannination]

[Mr.B]

"That's her back, she looks down on Butte."

Uh...yeah. Most folks who look down their back look down on...... Good one.

[Crock Hunter]

Pope cleans house at troubled Vatican Bank, names new cardinal advisers

Though he's yet to change any dogma, his style so far has been impressive. Perhaps more meaningfully he's really shaking up the Vatican bureaucracy, hopefully for the better. He's also named a bunch of Southern Hemisphere cardinals, few Northern Hemisphere ones and none from the overrepresented US.

I like the new Pope..(as much as an atheist can like a Pope) and it seems he has concentrated on Southern Hemisphere Catholics.. but isn't he simply casting his bait into what the Vatican sees as more productive waters..

[Crock Hunter]

The next Cardinal College may very well elect a black Pope . . . .

Like Pope James?? Papa's got a brand new bag.. . ..



Can I get an Amen .. .. .. .

[Mr.B]

"The next Cardinal College may very well elect a black Pope . . . ."

"Like Pope James?? Papa's got a brand new bag.. . .."



"Can I get an Amen .. .. .. ."

[Mr.B]

"...it's not what you take when you leave this world behind you....
it's what you leave behind you when you go.."
Randy Travis in "Three Wooden Crosses"

[Mr.B]

".......the subject of a new book, "The Ark Before Noah," by Irving Finkel, the museum's assistant keeper of the Middle East and the man who translated the tablet.

Finkel got hold of it a few years ago, when a man brought in a damaged tablet his father had acquired in the Middle East after World War II.

Let's see...WWII started say, 1941....this is 2014, +/- 73 years later and this new startling revelation is just now surfacing.....?!

I know a guy who has a friend who has a friend whose sister's boyfriend's best friend's father.........etc.

[Mr.B]

after World War II.

Let's see...WWII started say, 1941....this is 2014, +/- 73 years later...

"after" means 1945 or later. Opps."
Give or take four years?
"Plus, "recently deciphered...Finkel got hold of it a few years ago". Opps again."
How many is a "few", I wonder.

But don't let me stop you from hanging out with the illiterate, math-challenged and ignorant at the Creation Museum, Mr.B.
I just happen to choose real museums with real scientists, instead.
No worries.....not planning a visit. You just go on and do just whatever those voices in your head tell you......

[Mr.B]

"Let's see...WWII started say, 1941....." missed that, did ya?

Not being defensive.......just pokin' fun at your post. Stop being so defensive and uptight.

[Bungalow Bill]

I imagine the Hardest Working Pontiff in Show Biz as a
very strict Pope.

[neoplacebo]

Huh; jump back....kiss myself! Wot da peeple say.

[Mr.B]

"But, it didn't start in 1941 and there's no reason to estimate, the start has nothing to do with "after" WWII and neither has anything to do with "a few years ago".
Yup, no reason whatsoever.....my bad.
Silly me.....how could I forget that you have to be absolutely, positively, to the 'nth' correct?

"You chose to nonsensically dispute the science about your mythical Ark and I've yet to have anything to defend."

Will you ever forgive me?

[Mr.B]

ACLU alleges comically unconstitutional religious harassment in rural Louisiana school

“A lawsuit only represents one side’s allegations, and the board is disappointed that the ACLU chose to file suit without even contacting it regarding the facts.”

Typical of the ACLU. He said.... she said.......

However, if the allegations are true, dumbness on the teacher's part.

[O Really]

Some of us may have had more experience on ACLU case selection than others. I garontee the ACLU didn't file suit without making an attempt to investigate both or all sides of the dispute. I also have no doubt that any approach to the school board from the ACLU would have been rebuffed or, more likely, ignored. That is what would be "typical."

[Boatrocker]

Another Religious Right Tale Of Anti-Christian Victimization Gets Thoroughly Debunked

The moral of the story: Rightwing Christians are gullible, lying, whiny victims exploiting even six-year old girls for their miserable agenda.

Like the girl who walked out of the Grammy ceremony the other night- looking for any opportunity to manufacture some self-righteous outrage. This poor little girl's parents are likely at the bottom of this bullshit.

[Boatrocker]

I won't rule out the possibility that she went to the Grammys looking for just such an opportunity to set up a PR stunt. You'd've had to live under a rock for the past 25 years to have no idea what to expect. I still smell more carefully designed sanctimonious drama that anything else.

[Ombudsman]

...that is not actually supported by the content of her words.

Yes it is. She was passive-aggressively saying she left because she, as a Christian, was offended.

[Ombudsman]

Not really. She instigated the entire event. She could have just left and not tweeted anything.

[Boatrocker]

Could be, but I'd think she would have been more specific about her objections if that were the case. But, maybe she was intentionally vague because she knows better than most how good rightwing Christians are at twisting words from even their Bible to suit their modern prejudices.

Exactly. She may be a little cagier than the average fundicongelical. Either way, the story is manufactured bullshit, as I also believe the story of the first-grader was.