Good Man St. Anthony

Dan133269 · 06-10-2006 08:40AM

Right so St.Anthony helps people find their missing things......

Did it ever occur to anyone that maybe he was the f*cker who hid the thing in the first place?

Calibos · 07-10-2006 02:30AM

I always lose the head when I hear religious nonsense like this!

Help me St Anthony!

I always find it amazing how people can say things like, "I prayed to St Anthony and he helped me find my MP3 player. Honestly, there is something in it!!"

I don't think I want to believe in a God who answers prayers about lost MP3 players but doesn't answer the prayers of a dying cancer patient or a few thousand Earth quake victims.

Oh I forgot, its all about gods wonderful plan for us all. "Hey St peter, whats todays wonderful plan for people?" "Well God Sir, Little jimmy gets his MP3 player back and.............the poor mofos in Pakistan get to......die, die, die."

You might say, "Well its all about free will see. God didn't cause and cannot interfere with the Earth quake and its consequences"

......................but, he'll help find MP3 players any day of the week :rolleyes:

Honestly, do you people realise how fu##ing stupid you sound?

07-10-2006 04:40AM

slipss wrote:

well presumably he's the patron saint of lost things.

But how does he find somebodies lost virginity?

fuzzywiggle · 07-10-2006 09:56AM

Ok well when I was about 12, me, my mam and dad were shopping in town, after a couple of hours of being in there i noticed my precious braclet that was on my wrist had gone. This braclet meant the WORLD to me. Anyway mam said a prayer to st.anthony and as we were walking around a little while later i felt something in my runner. Had a look and there was the bracelet! Couldn't believe it. Wasn't trying on shoes/runners or anything so don't know how it managed to sqeeze in there? Gotta love st.anto!

Dyr · 07-10-2006 10:09AM

Calibos wrote:

I always lose the head when I hear religious nonsense like this!

Help me St Anthony!

I always find it amazing how people can say things like, "I prayed to St Anthony and he helped me find my MP3 player. Honestly, there is something in it!!"

I don't think I want to believe in a God who answers prayers about lost MP3 players but doesn't answer the prayers of a dying cancer patient or a few thousand Earth quake victims.

Oh I forgot, its all about gods wonderful plan for us all. "Hey St peter, whats todays wonderful plan for people?" "Well God Sir, Little jimmy gets his MP3 player back and.............the poor mofos in Pakistan get to......die, die, die."

You might say, "Well its all about free will see. God didn't cause and cannot interfere with the Earth quake and its consequences"

......................but, he'll help find MP3 players any day of the week :rolleyes:

Honestly, do you people realise how fu##ing stupid you sound?

God didnt find the mp3 player, Saint Anto did. He's a bit of a softie, our anto, so if you ask him nicely he'll bend the rules. God, however, is pretty old school, naturally enough

Dave! · 07-10-2006 01:01PM

Calibos wrote:

I always lose the head when I hear religious nonsense like this!

Help me St Anthony!

I always find it amazing how people can say things like, "I prayed to St Anthony and he helped me find my MP3 player. Honestly, there is something in it!!"

I don't think I want to believe in a God who answers prayers about lost MP3 players but doesn't answer the prayers of a dying cancer patient or a few thousand Earth quake victims.

Oh I forgot, its all about gods wonderful plan for us all. "Hey St peter, whats todays wonderful plan for people?" "Well God Sir, Little jimmy gets his MP3 player back and.............the poor mofos in Pakistan get to......die, die, die."

You might say, "Well its all about free will see. God didn't cause and cannot interfere with the Earth quake and its consequences"

......................but, he'll help find MP3 players any day of the week :rolleyes:

Honestly, do you people realise how fu##ing stupid you sound?

Agreeeeeed!!!!

aidan24326 · 07-10-2006 02:19PM

In all my time reading/posting on this site I've never read so many utterly stupid posts. Get a fcuking grip! 'Oh St.Anthony found my lost bracelet...!' No he didn't you idiot, you did! You found it where it was all along. There is no such entity as St.Anthony and if there was I'd hope he might have more important prayer requests to be attending to than you and your precious fcuking bracelet/watch/mp3 player or whatever. This kind of superstitious bullsh1te is what keeps every charlatan and faker (i.e tarot readers, mystics, fortune tellers etc.) in business.

Trust me, there was I time when I'd be in the same boat, but this is something I've seen with my own eyes on more than one occasion. Although she puts it down to mental energy fields more than anything else.

Yeah, sure. Mental energy fields. That's what it is.

This thread only reinforces my belief that Carl Sagan's book 'The Demon Haunted World' should be compulsory reading. Though no doubt some of you won't even know who he is.

Calibos · 07-10-2006 02:58PM

"The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins

On sale in all good bookshops, NOW!

At the risk off...........actually I think its virtually guaranteed at this stage, of turning this into a classic Religion V Atheism/Agnostiscism thread.

Think on this one.

Greek Gods of ancient Myth. You've got your Head God Zeus and then all your lesser gods. eg. Venus, God of Love. Aries God of Lost and Found

(I know Aries is god of something else but the greek god of Lost things doesn't come to mind at the moment) So theres two examples of greek supernatural beings subservient to the head God Zeus.

Nonsense you say. There is only one true God, the God of the bible and the RCC. All that greek stuff is just 2500 year old misguided belief.

For the love of God (pun intended

) can someone please tell me the difference between Zeus the head God and his lesser heavenly companions Venus god of Love and Aries God of lost and found......and God, the head god and his lesser heavenly companions St Valentine, Patron saint of love and St Anthony, Patron saint of Lost and Found.

Why doesn't the same person who dismissed the 2500 year old Greek Gods not dismiss their 2006 year old Roman Catholic opposite numbers so to speak.

It boils down to this. Think about all the reasons why you reject the Ancient Gods and ancient religious beliefs or even the beliefs of other present day religions. They're the same reasons I do. Its just I apply that same reasoning to just one more God than you.

Marksie · 07-10-2006 03:16PM

I just keep thinking about a christy moore song about port and brandy,
praying to St. Anthony and wondering how yer man stays on his surfboard after 15 pints of stout.

aidan24326 · 07-10-2006 03:42PM

Calibos wrote:

It boils down to this. Think about all the reasons why you reject the Ancient Gods and ancient religious beliefs or even the beliefs of other present day religions. They're the same reasons I do. Its just I apply that same reasoning to just one more God than you.

...as so eloquently put by Mr Dawkins, though I can't remember the exact quote.

Calibos · 07-10-2006 04:06PM

aidan24326 wrote:

...as so eloquently put by Mr Dawkins, though I can't remember the exact quote.

Shut up will ya mate! I was trying to pass off that little gem as my own!

07-10-2006 04:10PM

phantom_lord wrote:

Saying fact after a statment always turns it into a fact. Fact.

Brilliant

I always lose the head when I hear religious nonsense like this!

Help me St Anthony!

I always find it amazing how people can say things like, "I prayed to St Anthony and he helped me find my MP3 player. Honestly, there is something in it!!"

I don't think I want to believe in a God who answers prayers about lost MP3 players but doesn't answer the prayers of a dying cancer patient or a few thousand Earth quake victims.

Oh I forgot, its all about gods wonderful plan for us all. "Hey St peter, whats todays wonderful plan for people?" "Well God Sir, Little jimmy gets his MP3 player back and.............the poor mofos in Pakistan get to......die, die, die."

You might say, "Well its all about free will see. God didn't cause and cannot interfere with the Earth quake and its consequences"

......................but, he'll help find MP3 players any day of the week

Honestly, do you people realise how fu##ing stupid you sound?

heh, funny and true...

Badly Drunk Boy · 07-10-2006 04:16PM

MrJoeSoap wrote:

Not a big fan of superstition or religion tbh! I could be all nice, but then I'd be lying.

But you don't know (for definite) if Saint Tony did his works...

Badly Drunk Boy · 07-10-2006 04:17PM

Or didn't...

aidan24326 · 07-10-2006 04:21PM

Calibos wrote:

Shut up will ya mate! I was trying to pass off that little gem as my own!

Sorry about that! You'd nearly have got away with it on this thread too.

Badly Drunk Boy · 07-10-2006 04:22PM

Calibos wrote:

I don't think I want to believe in a God who answers prayers about lost MP3 players but doesn't answer the prayers of a dying cancer patient or a few thousand Earth quake victims.

Maybe the 'entity' that people claim to be God is an alien overseer. He's observing stuff that happens (on Earth), ("That stupid goon left his MP3 player in the microwave. He'll never find it there!"), and can try to help stuff to be righted, but can't help with real problems, like cancer...

aidan24326 · 07-10-2006 04:25PM

Badly Drunk Boy wrote:

But you don't know (for definite) if Saint Tony did his works...Or didn't...

Well what we can say is that there's zero evidence for a Saint Tony in the first place, not to mention one who hovers around helping people to find stuff.

Badly Drunk Boy · 07-10-2006 04:37PM

His help was invoked. Then, the job was done...

(I'm an atheist, by the way)

Calibos · 07-10-2006 04:53PM

Badly Drunk Boy wrote:

Maybe the 'entity' that people claim to be God is an alien overseer. He's observing stuff that happens (on Earth), ("That stupid goon left his MP3 player in the microwave. He'll never find it there!"), and can try to help stuff to be righted, but can't help with real problems, like cancer...

This quote comes to mind in response to that.

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

Who is that quote from??

Epicurus Born 341BC !!!

It blows my mind that there were such amazing thinkers as this in a time where they were surrounded by even more credulous religious believers than today.

In short, would I bother my arse worshipping a God who's miraculous powers extend to finding MP3 players but not to saving peoples lives.

Badly Drunk Boy · 07-10-2006 04:57PM

Didn't he also give the famous "Eat, drink, and be merry! For tomorrow we die!" quote?

Slutmonkey57b · 08-10-2006 02:14PM

Oh, wait, so the evidence in favour of superstitous Mammies is that Mammy A hangs around a statue in a church every day for 20 years, leaves her wallet behind, and LO AND BEHOLD somebody in a CHURCH notices it and leaves it for her to collect?

And Oh wait - a phone is lost on a bus, and it turns up... IN THE LOST PROPERTY OFFICE AT THE BUS STATION! No. Fu.cking. Way man. What are the odds?

FUC.K ME that's convincing.

Calibos · 08-10-2006 02:42PM

Slutmonkey57b wrote:

Oh, wait, so the evidence in favour of superstitous Mammies is that Mammy A hangs around a statue in a church every day for 20 years, leaves her wallet behind, and LO AND BEHOLD somebody in a CHURCH notices it and leaves it for her to collect?

And Oh wait - a phone is lost on a bus, and it turns up... IN THE LOST PROPERTY OFFICE AT THE BUS STATION! No. Fu.cking. Way man. What are the odds?

FUC.K ME that's convincing.

I refuse to believe that the above examples are the posters genuinely coming in on the side of St Anthony. They have to be sarcastic posts making fun of their mothers quaint belief in St Anthony. The Posters just forgot to add the

smileys.............Surely...........Oh dear God (pun intended again)

Like someone else said, its this kind of turning off the brain, credulous, non rational thinking that keeps every charlaten, faker, homeopathist, reiki healer, snake oil salesman, tarot reader, 'Psychic' etc etc in business.

Oh yeah, I'm so close minded, I really should open my my mind to the possibilites :rolleyes:

I do have an open mind, I am open to being convinced by actual evidence rather than anecdote. I just don't open my mind so much that my brain falls out.

Good Man St. Anthony

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