The 'Funny (ha, ha)' side of religion

Trent Houseboat

I don't know what she is so smug about, she still believes in the god of death.

kylith

robindch wrote: »

Doctor-Doctor Ken Ham concludes that if you don't believe Genesis, then why don't you just run around naked?

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2015/10/28/creationist-if-you-dont-interpret-the-bible-literally-theres-no-reason-to-wear-clothes/

Because it's cold here

Skrynesaver

Trent Houseboat wrote: »

I don't know what she is so smug about, she still believes in the god of death.

In fairness she has some evidence...

coolhull

If the first 'marriage' was between Adam and Eve, then who conducted the ceremony?

anothernight

coolhull wrote: »

If the first 'marriage' was between Adam and Eve, then who conducted the ceremony?

God, supposedly.

Hotblack Desiato

coolhull wrote: »

If the first 'marriage' was between Adam and Eve, then who conducted the ceremony?

It's what the next generation got up to that you should be worried about.

Worztron

:eek:

Penn

That's barbaric, and wholly disgusting.

He's supposed to cut off her other hand. Cutting off the hand that didn't touch yer man's balls is just cruel.

Gerry069

seamus

Stolen again from YLYL:

Worztron

seamus wrote: »

Stolen again from YLYL:

The late great George Carlin on The 10 commandments:

Kivaro

Penn wrote: »

That's barbaric, and wholly disgusting.

He's supposed to cut off her other hand. Cutting off the hand that didn't touch yer man's balls is just cruel.

Ah, he knew what he was doing.
He cut off her weak hand .......

Worztron

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AstraMonti

http://i.imgur.com/ScDkhRE.gifv

AstraMonti

Worztron

robindch

Lots of people in the UK feel that Jesus is simply unreal. Literally.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-34686993

robindch

seamus

robindch wrote: »

Lots of people in the UK feel that Jesus is simply unreal. Literally.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-34686993

One thing I've found quite curious are the amount of people who are very flexible on the whole religion thing, "Yah sure believe what you want, I'm not sure I even believe in the whole God thing anyway", but are insanely insistent on the topic of the existence of Jesus.

They'll concede that they son of god thing is a bit far-fetched, but don't dare suggest that the guy never existed...

Michael OBrien

seamus wrote: »

One thing I've found quite curious are the amount of people who are very flexible on the whole religion thing, "Yah sure believe what you want, I'm not sure I even believe in the whole God thing anyway", but are insanely insistent on the topic of the existence of Jesus.

They'll concede that they son of god thing is a bit far-fetched, but don't dare suggest that the guy never existed...

The trouble with apologetics is they equivocate between the Jesus of the Bible, Son of God, Jewish Zombie supreme and some apocalyptic cult leader that got into trouble with the Romans. If some historian says he probably existed, they pretend that means EVERYTHING about his story is validated. To some, it is either 0 or 100% true, no in between allowed.
For a creationist, ANY flaw in the bible disproves everything. They have that fanatical absolutist mindset, that makes them invest their entire worldview into one seriously flawed story.
I am not sure if there was never any cult leader named Yeshua or Yoshua 2000 years ago, and it really does not matter, the Jesus of the bible has been shown to be unsupported historically by any objective historian that has the balls to say so. People have got to let this stuff go sometimes.

looksee

seamus wrote: »

One thing I've found quite curious are the amount of people who are very flexible on the whole religion thing, "Yah sure believe what you want, I'm not sure I even believe in the whole God thing anyway", but are insanely insistent on the topic of the existence of Jesus.

They'll concede that they son of god thing is a bit far-fetched, but don't dare suggest that the guy never existed...

I would not find it difficult to accept that Jesus was an actual person, I don't mind either way, but I don't see that because I describe myself as atheist I have deny that he existed as a person, or even the outline of the biblical version. On balance I would consider it more likely than not. There had to be something to hang the stories on.

Peregrinus

seamus wrote: »

One thing I've found quite curious are the amount of people who are very flexible on the whole religion thing, "Yah sure believe what you want, I'm not sure I even believe in the whole God thing anyway", but are insanely insistent on the topic of the existence of Jesus.

They'll concede that they son of god thing is a bit far-fetched, but don't dare suggest that the guy never existed...

That's because they're guided by the evidence. There's a fair bit of research into the historical Jesus and, while there is a dissenting minority, the academic consensus is that, yes, Jesus of Nazareth is a historically-established figure, and the stories in the gospels refer to him.

(Which is not to say that all of the stories in the gospels are true. But it's pretty likely that they do refer to a historical figure.)

oscarBravo

I found Reza Aslan's Zealot an interesting read on the topic.

Worztron

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cowboyBuilder

looksee

cowboyBuilder wrote: »

There really is some tortuous, convoluted thinking goes on...to what end? Its really rather sad.

Hotblack Desiato

It's a joke, that god loves beetles the most because there are more species of beetles than anything else. Originally of course the baptised baby was top of the heap (possibly an unfortunate phrase in the light of Tuam, but hasn't been put on the trigger warning list yet)

sbsquarepants

cowboyBuilder wrote: »

Thinking about it, I don't actually know the answer!
He seems awfully fond of beetles, plants seem to do well more or less everywhere (except in my house which is a type of Bermuda triangle for them!) Certain animals get an awful raw deal and there's no denying he seems to have a bit of a grudge against those filthy little humans too.

It's a toss up between plants and beetles for me?