Godless III - Completing The Trinity

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Mon Jun 17, 2013 10:27 pm

Hitchens, man. Damn. That's deep-azzz, brah. Nome sane?

P.D.X. · Post by **P.D.X.** » Tue Jun 18, 2013 10:24 am

The Sybian wrote:
Jerloma wrote:Jesus shows up at Phoenix airport...

If Jesus cared about being stepped on, he wouldn't appear in a floor tile at a busy airport. It's like the old riddle the ancient Rabbis debated: "Can G-d microwave a burrito so hot that not even He could eat it." Actually, it's nothing like that, but I just blew my mind!

When a bearded man shows up in an apparition, how do people know it's Jesus rather than, say, Barry Gibb?

howard · Post by **howard** » Tue Jun 18, 2013 12:02 pm

Baritone?

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Wed Jun 19, 2013 2:50 pm

How to be a Christian around your atheist friends...

2) DON'T CAVE IN TO PEER PRESSURE.

God calls Christians to live a life of purity, so check to see if your Christian character backslides a bit when you’re around your atheist friends.

Do you drink more, curse more, and generally sin more whenever you spend time with non-Christian friends? If so, then it may be time to evaluate whether or not peer pressure is getting the best of you.

I love that so hard.

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Mon Jun 24, 2013 12:59 pm

Joe Klein from Time wrote an article about the tornado relief and veterans and included this non-sequitur and blatant lie for some unknown reason...

… there was an occupying army of relief workers, led by local first responders, exhausted but still humping it a week after the storm, church groups from all over the country — funny how you don’t see organized groups of secular humanists giving out hot meals — and there in the middle of it all, with a purposeful military swagger, were the volunteers from Team Rubicon.

Needless to say, there were loads of secular humanist and atheist organizations fund raising and providing relief efforts. I wonder what type of reaction that would have gotten if he pondered about how you never see Jews giving out hot meals.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Mon Jun 24, 2013 2:18 pm

Jerloma wrote:Joe Klein from Time wrote an article about the tornado relief and veterans and included this non-sequitur and blatant lie for some unknown reason...

… there was an occupying army of relief workers, led by local first responders, exhausted but still humping it a week after the storm, church groups from all over the country — funny how you don’t see organized groups of secular humanists giving out hot meals — and there in the middle of it all, with a purposeful military swagger, were the volunteers from Team Rubicon.
Needless to say, there were loads of secular humanist and atheist organizations fund raising and providing relief efforts. I wonder what type of reaction that would have gotten if he pondered about how you never see Jews giving out hot meals.

What a lazy cliched phrase to throw into an article. A pox on Klein for pandering to the average minds out there.

Reminds my of a joke that Jay Leno told back when he was funny (must have been when he was guesting on the old Letterman show).

Anyway, the gist of it was that the first President Bush was commenting on the way a Texas community rallied together to help out when a local kid fell down a well. Bush had said that "only in America would neighbors come together to help."

Leno: "so in Switzerland they would have just left her in the well?"

And to your question about Jews - substitute "bowlers," "Cubs fans" or even "vegetarians" and you can well imagine an editor worrying about the outraged reaction from the group of people basically labelled as heartless, selfish bastards.

rass · Post by **rass** » Mon Jun 24, 2013 2:50 pm

If you read up on the Team Rubicon mentioned in that blurb 'loma quoted, their top guiding principles are:

-We will always be motivated solely by the altruistic desire to help those in demonstrable need.
-We will always ardently maintain our independence from any government or religious institution.
-We will always respect the culture and customs of the communities we serve.

Sounds pretty secular to me.

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Mon Jun 24, 2013 3:04 pm

I can't find one thing on that entire website that even remotely implies that they are religiously motivated.

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Wed Jun 26, 2013 9:15 am

Listen to the whole thing or just going to 1:05 to meet Lil Markie...

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Wed Jun 26, 2013 1:21 pm

Pork-laced bullets to send Muslims to hell.

Just by virtue of thinking it's better to use a pork laced bullet to kill a Muslim, aren't you effectively admitting to a belief in Islam?

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Thu Jun 27, 2013 12:08 am

Only 50% of Americans find atheism threatening. We clearly have work to do...

Scottie · Post by **Scottie** » Thu Jun 27, 2013 12:19 am

Just out of curiosity . . . what the fuck is that? By whom and why and what the fuck compared to what? And . . . so what? Really, that's just . . . fuck, there's no sense to that at all. Uhhh. Gak.

Jebeezuz makes more sense than that thing.

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Thu Jun 27, 2013 12:24 am

It's a senseless, fucking terror!

Scottie · Post by **Scottie** » Thu Jun 27, 2013 12:27 am

Jerloma wrote:It's a senseless, fucking terror!

Drop the comma.

And, seriously, what the fuck is wrong with Brazil?

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Thu Jun 27, 2013 12:32 am

Scottie wrote:
Jerloma wrote:It's a senseless, fucking terror!
Drop the comma.

And, seriously, what the fuck is wrong with Brazil?

In their defense, they do have a 300 foot tall Jebeezus statue looking down on them. It can be a little intimidating.

Scottie · Post by **Scottie** » Thu Jun 27, 2013 12:39 am

If they had a 300-foot statue of Hamlet, they would be the coolest country ever.

But they don't. And as a result, they suck.

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Thu Jun 27, 2013 12:25 pm

Scottie wrote:If they had a 300-foot statue of Hamlet, they would be the coolest country ever.

But they don't. And as a result, they suck.

The biggest threat is that fucking 300 foot Jesus falling on them.

DSafetyGuy · Post by **DSafetyGuy** » Thu Jun 27, 2013 1:01 pm

The Sybian wrote:
Scottie wrote:If they had a 300-foot statue of Hamlet, they would be the coolest country ever.

But they don't. And as a result, they suck.

The biggest threat is that fucking 300 foot Jesus falling on them.

Could be worse, including three times as big...

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Fri Jun 28, 2013 3:06 pm

Scottie · Post by **Scottie** » Sun Jun 30, 2013 1:11 am

Atheists unveil monument next to Ten Commandments at Florida courthouse

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Sun Jun 30, 2013 12:16 pm

Nice.

Unfortunately, I see that thing being defaced, destroyed, and removed by random cheek-turning Christians. If it leads to this arms race where Christians and Atheists are constantly one-upping each other, that's fine. It's a great spectacle that costs me no money and I get to be entertained.

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Sun Jun 30, 2013 9:04 pm

Scottie wrote:Atheists unveil monument next to Ten Commandments at Florida courthouse

It made for some phenomenal protest signs though...

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Mon Jul 01, 2013 8:55 am

WTF is up with the idiot in baseball uniforms at the end?

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Mon Jul 01, 2013 9:22 am

Fucking Christians, man.

rass · Post by **rass** » Mon Jul 01, 2013 9:25 am

That looks really unsafe.

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Mon Jul 01, 2013 9:55 pm

I realize this will surprise absolutely nobody, but what the fuck, Dolan?

Files released by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee on Monday reveal that in 2007, Cardinal Timothy F. Dolan, then the archbishop there, requested permission from the Vatican to move nearly $57 million into a cemetery trust fund to protect the assets from victims of clergy sexual abuse who were demanding compensation.

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Scottie · Post by **Scottie** » Mon Jul 01, 2013 10:02 pm

Pruitt's post in the Canada D'eh thread had me flipping through a few gems from the nation's past.

This was initially banned by the CBC. And I maintain that CODCO was the greatest comedy that Canada ever produced. This is just one example. (I've mailed DVD copies of their pre-television days film The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood to a few of you; not sure if anyone ever watched it. So it goes.)

CODCO - Pleasant Priests in Conversation

rass · Post by **rass** » Tue Jul 02, 2013 5:47 am

Ignorant as I am, I've never heard of CODCO. Choice bits from wiki:

For most of its run, CODCO aired as the latter half of a one-hour sketch comedy block, immediately following The Kids in the Hall.

Canada is great. The last successful (though the early days of FOX had different standards) network primetime American sketch comedy show I can remember is In Living Color, which pretty much ran at the same time as CODCO ('90-'94). Am I missing one? Not sure if I count something like Whose Line is it Anyway?

And for Jerloma:

Ironically, the CBC subsequently aired Pleasant Irish Priests in a Best of CODCO special just a few months after the regular series ended.

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Tue Jul 02, 2013 9:15 am

Thanks Rass! I didn't get you anything. Here, have this...

kranepool · Post by **kranepool** » Fri Jul 05, 2013 11:04 am

I, for one, find this article fascinating.

Link

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Fri Jul 05, 2013 11:42 am

So you're saying there's a chance!

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Fri Jul 05, 2013 1:05 pm

rass · Post by **rass** » Tue Jul 09, 2013 3:19 pm

Can you see Jesus in a rusted metal sculpture in Teaneck, NJ?

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Tue Jul 09, 2013 3:42 pm

That's clearly Kenny Loggins.

rass · Post by **rass** » Tue Jul 09, 2013 4:43 pm

So more Messina than Messiah?

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Tue Jul 09, 2013 8:11 pm

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Wed Jul 10, 2013 9:35 am

That is outstanding.

degenerasian · Post by **degenerasian** » Wed Jul 10, 2013 12:03 pm

rass wrote:Can you see Jesus in a rusted metal sculpture in Teaneck, NJ?

I see Cobra Commander

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Wed Jul 10, 2013 12:50 pm

Giff wrote:That is outstanding.

Yes it is.

degenerasian wrote:
rass wrote:Can you see Jesus in a rusted metal sculpture in Teaneck, NJ?
I see Cobra Commander

I see a rotted pig head.

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 12:29 pm

Two for one...

New 10 Commandments monument goes up in front of West VA courthouse a couple weeks ago. ACLU responds accordingly and the prosecuting attorney says to hold off as he's done some research and it turns out it may not be illegal. Here is his research...

Wyoming County Prosecuting Attorney Michael Cochrane said he researched the topic and advised the County Commission to leave it alone for now.

Cochrane said the issue is whether the monument promotes Christianity over other religions, and he doesn’t think it does.

The group who raised money and erected the monument wanted to spread a message of good morality and not Christianity, he said.

…

Cochrane asked his Facebook friends for feedback and about 280 people of 300 responded in favor of the monument. Those who opposed feared it violates separation of church and state, he said.

Picture of completely secular monument...

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This guy is mad at the Smurfs 2 trailer and specifically Papa Smurf for hurling this blasphemy at the children...

“It doesn’t matter where you came from; what matters is who you choose to be.”

How inspiring! If only it were true.

It does matter where we come from. If God really is our creator, then we really do owe him something. Papa Smurf’s words of pseudo-wisdom only make sense if our existence is the product of meaningless forces. If we are the products of evolution, then we have to manufacture meaning for our lives. We have to choose to be someone. If we have a creator, chances are that he intended for us to be a certain someone, and maybe we should ask him about it if we’re confused.