The Funny Side of Religion

Dades

Dades

Not particularly funny, but I didn't want to sully the Interesting Stuff thread with it...

Bless me iPhone for I have sinned

An iPhone app aimed at helping Catholics through confession and encouraging lapsed followers back to the faith has been sanctioned by the Catholic Church in the United States.

smokingman

Dades wrote: »

Not particularly funny, but I didn't want to sully the Interesting Stuff thread with it...

Bless me iPhone for I have sinned

I guess the first name they thought up probably didn't go down well...
"Priest in my Pocket"

:pac:

Genghiz Cohen

TouchyConfessional

PersonalPriest

BadTouch ( :pac: )

Dades

iConfess

robindch

Dades wrote: »

Not particularly funny

...but not all that bad either. From the beeb's report on the same story:



Look at the three items in white and see if they seem a tad ironic in the context of the catholic church, in the 21st century.

BTW, I'd love to hear what the data protection people would have to say about an app which allows people "to keep track of their sins", and what happens when somebody loses their phone, or somebody has a look at somebody else's... the possibilities for sudden-onset unhappiness are endless :rolleyes:

Dades

Obviously the app is allowed collect your data - but it's not allowed tell anyone what you said. :pac:

GLaDOS

Coriolanus

pts

Lemegeton

The Mad Hatter

I'm just going to post this and back away slowly...

Link

(Honestly, words cannot describe.)

keppler

The Mad Hatter wrote: »

I'm just going to post this and back away slowly...

Link

(Honestly, words cannot describe.)

I can think of a few but I wont post them here;)
I felt embarrassed even watching this!

CiaranMT

The Mad Hatter wrote: »

I'm just going to post this and back away slowly...

Link

(Honestly, words cannot describe.)

Couldn't make it past a minute :pac:

robindch

The Mad Hatter wrote: »

I'm just going to post this and back away slowly.

From the Philippines, I think.

Calibos

More likely South Korea. I just hope the current mass conversions to evangelical christianity over there is just their equivelent of the fad of Buddhism in the US in the 60's and that they'll all come to their senses with the exception of their equivelent of Sting and Richard Gere.

(Before the Buddhists have a go at me, I know Buddhism is as atheistic as a religion can be and its a poor comparison but its the best I could come up with)

virmilitaris

Calibos wrote: »

More likely South Korea.

It's not. There's no Korean writing when they go outside and they don't look Korean. Somewhere in South-East Asia I'd imagine.

Dades

What has been seen... :pac:

mehfesto

Far too much crotch thrusting at the end for Jesus' liking...

mewso

We think our Government is bad. Romania has problems taxing the witches.

mikhail

mewso wrote: »

We think our Government is bad. Romania has problems taxing the witches.

And apparently, their politicians are willing to resort to magic to win elections.

Witchcraft is not taken lightly in Romania. After losing a 2009 election, former foreign minister Mircea Geoana accused president Traian Basescu of using the mystical “power of the purple flame” to damage his campaign and of employing a parapsychologist to attack him with “negative energy”.

Artist's interpretation:

Galvasean

Stolen from YLYL

Nodin

Calibos wrote: »

More likely South Korea. ....

Phillipines - De La Salle University, manilla from the details on the youtube post.

Coriolanus

mewso wrote: »

We think our Government is bad. Romania has problems taxing the witches.

Dunno. I think a bullshít tax might be just the thing we need to balance the books. Astrology, phrenology, homeopathy, religion, slap a twenty percent tax on the whole lot.

robindch

Dades wrote: »

Bless me iPhone for I have sinned

Bless, but the Vatican can move fast when there's a moral danger doing the rounds:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1355479/iPhone-confessions-app-banned-Catholics-Vatican.html

Coriolanus

As the guy in the comments said, they'd be all in favour of it if they were getting a slice of the action...

The Mad Hatter

A quote from a radio play that just made me chuckle:

Socrates the madman wrote:

You dub me "Devil" as if it's a bad thing. A major difference between God and the Devil is one gives himself enough love not to demand yours. If given the choice of which narcissist to spend all of flippin' eternity with, whose company would you find less annoying?

NecroSteve

I don't know if this will be considered spam or advertising. Not my intention, and anyway, there's no money to be made here.

http://www.unfollowingjesus.com
http://www.atheistcartoons.com

Calibos

Nodin wrote: »

Phillipines - De La Salle University, manilla from the details on the youtube post.

DOH!!:eek::D

robindch

Been a while since Benny Hinn came up, so why not?

Hinn is a massively popular Canadian revivalist preacher who specializes in vast religious gatherings, generally in stadiums and almost always in front of crowds measured in the tens of thousands. For many years, he's been earning enormous sums of tax-free money by demonstrating his remarkable talent of pushing somebody (or pretending to), just enough so that they fall over. Hinn's outfit owns a luxurious private jet, provides him with an unlimited expense account and like Hinn himself, has been the subject of numerous investigations into a range of corrupt practices.

Here's Hinn doing his god-thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9SS95q2kpg