[Zillah]

Originally Posted by Cunning Alias

There is a film coming out called Jesus Camp. Trailer Here. Interesting/frightening stuff.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showt...p?t=2054986278

[guildofevil]

Originally Posted by Playboy

ye a community of smart asses who get to together to pat each other on the back about how intelligent they are in comparison to theists and laugh at the misfortune of the mentally ill.

Ok. I'm in. Where are the meetings held? A pub close to a church I hope!

We could meet on Sundays and point and laugh at the people going in and out. If they have a problem with it, we'll ask them to love and forgive us as Jesus taught them to do. Then we can laugh some more. I'm sure it would take many minutes before some good Christian cracks and glasses one of us.

[robindch]

Not quite a hazard of belief, more a hazard for believers' cash:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5391978.stm

$8.6 million missing over 40 years and it only came to light two years ago? Wow!

[Zombrex]

Originally Posted by robindch

Not quite a hazard of belief, more a hazard for believers' cash:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5391978.stm

$8.6 million missing over 40 years and it only came to light two years ago? Wow!

LOL

"That money was only resting in my account!"

Once again Father Ted comes fightingly close to predicting reality. How does anyone take the Catholic church as an institution seriously

[Zombrex]

Originally Posted by guildofevil

Then we can laugh some more.

I would point that I will not be limiting my laughter at just the misfortune of just the mentally ill. I will be laughing at the misfortune of everyone

[Playboy]

Originally Posted by guildofevil

Ok. I'm in. Where are the meetings held? A pub close to a church I hope!

We could meet on Sundays and point and laugh at the people going in and out. If they have a problem with it, we'll ask them to love and forgive us as Jesus taught them to do. Then we can laugh some more. I'm sure it would take many minutes before some good Christian cracks and glasses one of us.

I'm sure God would forgive them for glassing you. Thats the great thing about being a christian .. ur allowed to make mistakes and all you have to do is say sorry

[robindch]

God changes opinion on sex, at least in Arizona:

http://www.azcentral.com/community/s...0930boxZ8.html

[Beruthiel]

Originally Posted by Asiaprod

Bummer, I have searcheed the internet and can find no clips of Farther Ted, it never made it to Japan. Anybody got any links?

If you haven't see all of Father Ted, then go buy them!

[Asiaprod]

Originally Posted by Beruthiel

If you haven't see all of Father Ted, then go buy them!

Thank you, just ordered the complete set

[robindch]

Holy water hastens trip to deity:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/e...on/5405348.stm

[robindch]

> $8.6 million missing over 40 years and it only came to light two years ago?

More on that story:

http://www.local6.com/news/10025428/detail.html

he saw himself as the CEO of a multimillion-dollar company who wasn't properly compensated, according to a search warrant.

!

[5uspect]

So what exactly constitutes a theological hypotheis and how does it become a theological theory? Surely if an atheist became pope (imagine!) or a pope an atheist, then there would be some great rethinking done.

[robindch]

> So what exactly constitutes a theological hypotheis and how does it become
> a theological theory?

How long is a piece of theological string? Ophelia Benson addressed this spaghetti-like topic on her blog a couple of days ago:

http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/notes.php (search for 'Infallible cannoli')

Okay - you've got your Vatican commission of theologians, thirty of them, and they have been 'examining' limbo. They've been what? What does that mean? How have they been examining limbo? They've been looking at it through a telescope? Through a microscope? Both at once? Both in alternation? Fifteen theologians on the tele and fifteen on the micro, and they combine their findings? Or they X-ray it? Run it through an MRI scan? Shave off bits of it for radio-carbon dating? Or is it that they sit limbo down and ask it a lot of questions? Or do they give it a written exam, with two hours to complete it and proctors walking up and down to prevent cheating? Or what?

Well, apparently none of those, since the pope is going to abolish the concept itself, which would seem to hint that there's nothing physical or material to examine. But then what? What does it mean for theologians to examine limbo? To talk about it, apparently, and decide whether they feel like believing in it or not.

...which I suppose is pretty close to what happened.

[mountainyman]

Originally Posted by reuters

KIEV
"The man shouted 'God will save me, if he exists',

God disagreed.

So sad how Ukraine suffered under Atheism.
http://www.infoukes.com/history/famine/

[robindch]

> So sad how Ukraine suffered under Atheism.

If you check out the history of this very closely, you'll find that the famine was engineered by Stalin for political reasons.

More generally, I commented upon this class of religious attack upon atheism yesterday in this post, paraphrased as:

There's an interesting disparity here -- in the religious believer's mind, any time that an atheist commits a crime, atheism is somehow to blame. But whenever a believer-in-god commits a crime, it's the person at fault and not the religious system. Failure of people, but never systems? All very Orwellian, isn't it?

More generally, religious morality tends to be directly threat/reward-based, which is pretty primitive really.