Howard Finkelstein: DulceEtDecorumEst: monkeytaco420


I will never need nor want any book on Christianity, or any other retarded desert tribe religion.

I really like the way you blended your racist tendencies into that troll!

The funniest part is that he used it as an attempt to insult someone he thought was pushing religion, not realizing that the book suggested was a guide on how to counter religion. What a knee-jerking troll.

Duke Phillips' Singing Bears:
He's technically right. Jesus was a Jew, and the Jews were a desert people at the time.

Where he's materially incorrect is that Christianity as it is now is so far from its roots that you really can't compare it to where it started, as a re-definition of Jewish law.

My thought was more the implication that all "desert religions" are "retarded".

Luckily for him, the FSM cares for us all with his bountiful meatballs and glorious sauce.

My god is better than your god.

Jews for Jesus?

Vegetarians for meat?

Upstanding Republican Congressman for dirty bathroom sex?

Oh wait...

pounddawg: Those who say, do not know.
Those who know, do not say.

Those who know what?

DulceEtDecorumEst: Howard Finkelstein



How is pointing out that religion is stupid racist?
Desert tribes are desert tribes.
Also, the real racists are the Christians. Jesus, assuming he ever existed, would NOT look Scandanavian.

you = FAIL FAIL FAIL

*choke*

You are really good at this... give me a moment and I'll make you a Troll Scorecard.

cackylacky: She wrote "What Would Jesus Drive?" in the dust on the back.

Jesus would drive a Cadillac on 22"s cause that's how we roll up in his hizzouse

fark it dude, lets go bowling

Crewmannumber6: pounddawg: Those who say, do not know.
Those who know, do not say.

Those who know what?

What they know.

/Who's on first...

Howard Finkelstein: Duke Phillips' Singing Bears:
He's technically right. Jesus was a Jew, and the Jews were a desert people at the time.

Where he's materially incorrect is that Christianity as it is now is so far from its roots that you really can't compare it to where it started, as a re-definition of Jewish law.

My thought was more the implication that all "desert religions" are "retarded".

Luckily for him, the FSM cares for us all with his bountiful meatballs and glorious sauce.

Even so, I still don't buy the notion that pointing out the 'desert religions' as stupid is necessarily racist. A pretty fair amount of major world religions come out of the middle east (assuming he means the middle east when he says 'desert') and most of them are monotheistic and follow the tradition of Abraham.

They're also pretty famous for having a lot of violence associated with them, so I can see where someone would lump them all into one big, retarded boat.

I, personally, disagree. I don't think the religions themselves are retarded. I just think they've attracted a lot of retards.

But I don't think it's racist. Saying it is seems akin to saying that someone who hates Atlanta because of Coca Cola is racist simply because Atlanta has a lot of black people in it. I don't buy it.

cackylacky: My 14 year old saw a Hummer in the parking lot with a Jesus fish on it. She wrote "What Would Jesus Drive?" in the dust on the back.

I don't get it.

cackylacky: My 14 year old saw a Hummer in the parking lot with a Jesus fish on it. She wrote "What Would Jesus Drive?" in the dust on the back.

Actually, since he was a carpenter, or so I'm told, he'd probably drive a big US brand truck like a F-150 or Dodge Ram, with the Hemi, with a big ol' US flag in the window, next to Calvin whizzing on a Chevy logo and a "3" sticker.

Crewmannumber6pounddawg: Those who say, do not know.
Those who know, do not say.

Those who know what?


They don't say, so we don't know!

cackylacky
My 14 year old saw a Hummer in the parking lot with a Jesus fish on it. She wrote "What Would Jesus Drive?" in the dust on the back.
No she didn't.

I bought her a chocolate ice cream cone.
No you didn't.

She's so cute.
No she isn't.

What would Jesus do? He'd probably tell them all to shut the hell up

Well, I'm pretty sure *I* would.

cackylacky: Howard Finkelstein: Jesus would likely drive himself, or a donkey, Mr "I'm driving a car".

Yes.

That was the point.

That Jesus probably wouldn't be driving a big show-offy SUV.

He'd probably give that $50,000 to some poor folks.

Are we agreeing or disagreeing?

He's saying you should attend to the beam in your eye before you point out the mote in another's.

cackylacky: Howard Finkelstein: Jesus would likely drive himself, or a donkey, Mr "I'm driving a car".

Yes.

That was the point.

That Jesus probably wouldn't be driving a big show-offy SUV.

He'd probably give that $50,000 to some poor folks.

Are we agreeing or disagreeing?

I'm saying Jesus wouldn't have been driving YOUR car either, so being smug about your daughter writing that is a touch hypocritical, isn't it?

cackylacky: There are annoying jerks in the world. Some of them preach on street corners, some sell used cars, some of them are politicians... there are idiots everywhere. Good luck to the store owners in toning this Pharisee down a touch.

My 14 year old saw a Hummer in the parking lot with a Jesus fish on it. She wrote "What Would Jesus Drive?" in the dust on the back.

I bought her a chocolate ice cream cone.

She's so cute.

Hearing of things like this makes me smile and gives me hope for a future where the whack jobs will shown how they've been effectively adding to the marginalization a perfectly good belief structure.

If you have read the Bible, Jesus actually spends a lot of time telling people to STFU. Usually the story goes like this:
Someone asks Jesus a stupid question.
Jesus: "Who the HELL do you think you are, bub?"

/Paraphrasing

Mordant:
That may be one of the wisest things I've seen around here in a long time. Very well stated.

Thank you but everything is relative.
To someone who doesn't happen to agree,
it may be one of the most foolish statements they've seen.

cackylacky: There are annoying jerks in the world. Some of them preach on street corners, some sell used cars, some of them are politicians... there are idiots everywhere. Good luck to the store owners in toning this Pharisee down a touch.

My 14 year old saw a Hummer in the parking lot with a Jesus fish on it. She wrote "What Would Jesus Drive?" in the dust on the back.

I bought her a chocolate ice cream cone.

She's so cute.

Jesus would either drive a Hummer, or a full sized passenger van. Those options are much more eco-friendly than hauling twelve desciples around in a fleet of hybrids. What will you buy your daughter when she starts carving thing into the paint with her nail file?

Todo when I retire...

Take up a street ministry decrying that street ministers are teh devil.

This thread also reminds me of :

Stanfan114: If you have read the Bible, Jesus actually spends a lot of time telling people to STFU. Usually the story goes like this:
Someone asks Jesus a stupid question.
Jesus: "Who the HELL do you think you are, bub?"

/Paraphrasing

That, my friend, is a damn fine synopsis.

StreetPreacher# Jebus is the lord and the light, y'all are going to hell
RandomJo: STFU Noob
StreetPreacher# I speak from a higher power (eleventy)
-JewishCarpenter is now JesusChrist-
JesusChrist# STFU Noob

oranjello: Jews for Jesus?

Vegetarians for meat?

Upstanding Republican Congressman for dirty GAY bathroom sex?

Oh wait...

FTFY

So in honor of the church group's freedom of speech, an inalienable right granted in this country, the business owners are petitioning to have them shut down.

I think I'll make a petition so that the next time teh ghey pride parade comes to our town, they will not be allowed to exceed a certain decibel level for the parade or the concerts or any event they are participating in during the duration of the festival.

Wouldn't that be the fair thing to do? Or would I just be called names and labeled as a hatemonger for my need for silence.

Duke Phillips' Singing Bears: Stanfan114: If you have read the Bible, Jesus actually spends a lot of time telling people to STFU. Usually the story goes like this:
Someone asks Jesus a stupid question.
Jesus: "Who the HELL do you think you are, bub?"

/Paraphrasing

That, my friend, is a damn fine synopsis.

I would like to see his translation of Revelations

Does not approve


"Dear God... I'm sorry I drank all of the Mountain Dew, and didn't share any with Sally."

Stanfan114: If you have read the Bible, Jesus actually spends a lot of time telling people to STFU. Usually the story goes like this:
Someone asks Jesus a stupid question.
Jesus: "Who the HELL do you think you are, bub?"

/Paraphrasing

Yeah, but it's more like "You don't believe me? You're going to hell, motherfarker! I'll kick your ass if you don't believe me!" Then the other guy repents of his sins, Jebus turns some water into wine and they have a party. Or something ...

Duke Phillips' Singing Bears: Stanfan114: If you have read the Bible, Jesus actually spends a lot of time telling people to STFU. Usually the story goes like this:
Someone asks Jesus a stupid question.
Jesus: "Who the HELL do you think you are, bub?"

/Paraphrasing

That, my friend, is a damn fine synopsis.

Too wordy. You should shorten it and possibly add pictures.

Christians are the biggest assholes in America today. How about if someone wants to hear this crap he goes to any one of the innumerable churches all over the place and you stop preaching on the sidewalk. They did that in the old days because there were no churches. See the difference, asshole?

lordargent: Nope, I pretty much saw the flaws in the one I was taught as well.

Now I'm Atheist.

That's usually how it works.

gshepnyc: Christians are the biggest assholes in America today. How about if someone wants to hear this crap he goes to any one of the innumerable churches all over the place and you stop preaching on the sidewalk. They did that in the old days because there were no churches. See the difference, asshole?

Wow... tell us how you really feel?

Howard Finkelstein: Duke Phillips' Singing Bears: Stanfan114: If you have read the Bible, Jesus actually spends a lot of time telling people to STFU. Usually the story goes like this:
Someone asks Jesus a stupid question.
Jesus: "Who the HELL do you think you are, bub?"

/Paraphrasing

That, my friend, is a damn fine synopsis.

I would like to see his translation of Revelations

Jesus had nothing to do with Revelations. Revelations was written years after Jesus was dead. (and by dead I mean dead dead, dead dead deadsky, afterlife kid, outta here, deceased) It was written by some psycho on an island with a headfull of bad mojo. How the hell it got accepted into the final Bible cut is beyond me, but it definitely has nothing to do with Christianity as Jesus spoke it.

I'm not certain that religion as such is really the core of the issue here. There are all kinds of prosthletisers out there, and they have all kinds of views - religious, political, philosophical - you name it.
To me, the core issue here is that there are really only two basic human rights - the right to do as one chooses, and the right to be left alone. And if you wish to have anything resembling a civilized society, when those two rights come into irreconcilable conflict, the right to be left alone must take precedence.
You have the right to espouse you point of view. I have the right not to listen. When you take it upon yourself to FORCE me to listen, you are violating my right to be left alone - and I think this applies no matter what the nature of the viewpoint you are espousing.

Jesus might say --- Stop talking the talk and walk the walk. Also stop twisting my message. I preached love and compassion. Not bombing people that don't agree with you.

That's what he might say. I said Might.

Was he the son of God? Was he a Prophet? Did he even exist? I dunno. I wasn't there. But keep in mind that the people who witnessed these so called events thought the world was flat, used leeches in medicine and thought the Sun revolved around the Earth.

They might not have been the most credible of witnesses.

/not that my $.02 matters.

Duke Phillips' Singing Bears:
Jesus had nothing to do with Revelations. Revelations was written years after Jesus was dead. (and by dead I mean dead dead, dead dead deadsky, afterlife kid, outta here, deceased) It was written by some psycho on an island with a headfull of bad mojo. How the hell it got accepted into the final Bible cut is beyond me, but it definitely has nothing to do with Christianity as Jesus spoke it.

And, what, if any of it, does that have to do with the amusement value of him paraphrasing/translating John's Crazy Endtimes Writings(tm)?

I'm not so daft as to not know such a basic fact about the Bible ;)

NikkiPoooo: Savage Belief: So in honor of the church group's freedom of speech, an inalienable right granted in this country, the business owners are petitioning to have them shut down.

I think I'll make a petition so that the next time teh ghey pride parade comes to our town, they will not be allowed to exceed a certain decibel level for the parade or the concerts or any event they are participating in during the duration of the festival.

Wouldn't that be the fair thing to do? Or would I just be called names and labeled as a hatemonger for my need for silence.

Well, if the pride parade happens every Saturday and sometimes other days too when they feel like it, and it actually chases people away rather than drawing crowds of onlookers then I'll sign your petition.

I find myself wondering what a Jesus-pride parade would look like.

/er, nevermind

pounddawg
But keep in mind that the people who witnessed these so called events thought the world was flat, used leeches in medicine and thought the Sun revolved around the Earth.

Actually leeches are still used in medicine today. They help in certain circumstances. As do maggots.