Vrede too wrote: ↑Thu May 02, 2019 6:05 pmReligion, for one.billy.pilgrim wrote: ↑Thu May 02, 2019 5:28 pmI read about a major religion that approves of selling sketchy food to "others", giving rise to the familiar old song lyric, "If you can't eat it, sell it to the other side".
I've often wondered what other sketchy products they sell.
Our Pomeranian sheltered the spaghetti when it could not maintain flight.1 CAT FAN wrote: ↑Thu May 02, 2019 6:53 am1 CAT FAN wrote: ↑Wed May 01, 2019 7:43 pmbilly.pilgrim wrote: ↑Tue Apr 30, 2019 4:12 pmSo, you do admit to seeing mythical creatures and say it runs in the family.We did bless the spaghetti before we ate it.bannination wrote: ↑Tue Apr 30, 2019 8:50 pmOh it's much like Christians who drink his blood and eat his flesh. Sounds like you're worshiping FSM after all.My grandson did give the spaghetti the opportunity to get away.“O Really” wrote:You have the power equal to a God?
Seems like unvaccinated Scientologists - I can't find that the church is anti-vax - should be booted for being anti-science.neoplacebo wrote: ↑Sun May 12, 2019 9:02 amSaw a story this morning that a few dozen people are still quarantined on the Church of Scientology ship because of measles. I wonder if they're praying or passing snakes around or drinking poison while quarantined......probably the best thing for them is to consider that ship their own ark and just sail off into the sunset on it. It's only fair.
rstrong wrote: ↑Mon May 19, 2014 12:26 amAt least some Christian congregations are taking even the more inconvenient Old Testament decrees seriously:
In his March 23 sermon (according to Huffington Post), Phoenix, Arizona, pastor Steven Anderson of the Faithful World Baptist Church explained in detail why women in the congregation must refrain from speaking during services. Citing 1 Timothy 2:11 and 1 Corinthians 14, Anderson said the woman should learn only "in silence." "Now obviously, before the service begins," he conceded, "there's chatting and talking going on that's perfectly legitimate. (And when) we all sing praises to God, of course the ladies should also lift up their voices. But when it's learning time, it's silence time (for females)." (Also, he said, since the comment "Amen" means "That's true," it would be inappropriate for females to utter it.)
- Huffington Post, 3-26-2014, via News of the Weird
Ireland Bars American Pastor Accused of Hate Speech
The government of Ireland has barred an Arizona-based Baptist pastor accused of anti-Semitic and homophobic hate speech from entering the country, invoking for the first time a 1999 immigration act that allows such exclusion orders on grounds of national security or public policy....
Pastor Anderson’s Faithful Word Baptist Church has been labeled a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center and by the Anti-Defamation League. He first gained prominence outside his ministry, which is in a Tempe, Ariz., strip mall, when he announced in 2009 that he hated President Barack Obama and prayed for his death. He has called for the United States government to exterminate all gay people and welcomed the murder of 49 people in the mass shooting at the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., in 2016.
“The good news is that there’s 50 less pedophiles in this world, because, you know, these homosexuals are a bunch of disgusting perverts and pedophiles,” Pastor Anderson said in a video he posted online. “That’s who was a victim here, are a bunch of just disgusting homosexuals at a gay bar, O.K.?”
A Holocaust denier, he has claimed that the Jewish Messiah is the Antichrist, that the Talmud is blasphemous and that Jews believe that it is not a sin to cheat gentiles. His church, which he founded in 2005, rejects abortion and all forms of birth control.
Pastor Anderson announced on Twitter in March that he was planning to preach in Dublin on May 26 but gave no further details....
Pastor Anderson was banned from the United Kingdom in 2016 and has also been denied entry to or deported from Botswana, Canada, Jamaica, Malawi and South Africa....
Pastor Anderson had also announced events in Amsterdam and Stockholm for later this month, but on May 1 the Dutch government arranged to have him barred from entering the Schengen free travel area, which includes 26 European countries, including Sweden and the Netherlands....
Vrede too wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2019 11:01 pmrstrong wrote: ↑Mon May 19, 2014 12:26 amAt least some Christian congregations are taking even the more inconvenient Old Testament decrees seriously:
In his March 23 sermon (according to Huffington Post), Phoenix, Arizona, pastor Steven Anderson of the Faithful World Baptist Church explained in detail why women in the congregation must refrain from speaking during services. Citing 1 Timothy 2:11 and 1 Corinthians 14, Anderson said the woman should learn only "in silence." "Now obviously, before the service begins," he conceded, "there's chatting and talking going on that's perfectly legitimate. (And when) we all sing praises to God, of course the ladies should also lift up their voices. But when it's learning time, it's silence time (for females)." (Also, he said, since the comment "Amen" means "That's true," it would be inappropriate for females to utter it.)
- Huffington Post, 3-26-2014, via News of the WeirdIreland Bars American Pastor Accused of Hate Speech
The government of Ireland has barred an Arizona-based Baptist pastor accused of anti-Semitic and homophobic hate speech from entering the country, invoking for the first time a 1999 immigration act that allows such exclusion orders on grounds of national security or public policy....
Pastor Anderson’s Faithful Word Baptist Church has been labeled a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center and by the Anti-Defamation League. He first gained prominence outside his ministry, which is in a Tempe, Ariz., strip mall, when he announced in 2009 that he hated President Barack Obama and prayed for his death. He has called for the United States government to exterminate all gay people and welcomed the murder of 49 people in the mass shooting at the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., in 2016.
“The good news is that there’s 50 less pedophiles in this world, because, you know, these homosexuals are a bunch of disgusting perverts and pedophiles,” Pastor Anderson said in a video he posted online. “That’s who was a victim here, are a bunch of just disgusting homosexuals at a gay bar, O.K.?”
A Holocaust denier, he has claimed that the Jewish Messiah is the Antichrist, that the Talmud is blasphemous and that Jews believe that it is not a sin to cheat gentiles. His church, which he founded in 2005, rejects abortion and all forms of birth control.
Pastor Anderson announced on Twitter in March that he was planning to preach in Dublin on May 26 but gave no further details....
Pastor Anderson was banned from the United Kingdom in 2016 and has also been denied entry to or deported from Botswana, Canada, Jamaica, Malawi and South Africa....
Pastor Anderson had also announced events in Amsterdam and Stockholm for later this month, but on May 1 the Dutch government arranged to have him barred from entering the Schengen free travel area, which includes 26 European countries, including Sweden and the Netherlands....
Yeah, plenty more weird and ugly there.billy.pilgrim wrote: ↑Sat May 18, 2019 8:57 am"About a year and a half later the church was moved to a strip mall that was also used by Anderson's fire alarm installation business"
In general, it's not good practice to mix religion, of any stripe, with your business. Had they not done so, there never would have been a controversy to start with. So in a sense they are responsible for starting it; the same would have been true if Chick fil a had been a Muslim advocacy business, except I figure the backlash over a Muslim Chick fil a (by "Christians") would have been more severe and would have involved violence like the burning of their outlets. As far as I know, no Christian Chick fil a outlets have been torched, though.1 CAT FAN wrote: ↑Sat May 18, 2019 12:53 pmChick-fil-A Executive Explains Restaurant’s ‘Higher Calling’ in Graceful Response to Critics http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2019/may ... to-critics
They're closed on Sunday.Why Chick-fil-A is America’s most profitable fast-food franchise https://us.businessesforsale.com/us/sea ... -franchise
You must not have read your own article. They are closed on Sunday, but they're the most profitable fast food franchise in spite of - not because - of that. Basically the same reason why Publix is so popular -"where shopping is a pleasure."1 CAT FAN wrote: ↑Sat May 18, 2019 1:40 pmThey're closed on Sunday.Why Chick-fil-A is America’s most profitable fast-food franchise https://us.businessesforsale.com/us/sea ... -franchise
Interesting idea