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You reminded me of my once-an

artappraiser — Mon, 28 May 2018 00:11:52 +0000

In reply to Well that tree of life thing

You reminded me of my once-an-altar-boy and still-churchgoing father's way of dealing with the cognitive dissonance. One of the things he couldn't exactly swallow after being the first in family to go to college and eat some of the apple is this place called limbo that the Catholic church invented as a place babies go when they die before being baptized. Until the second coming, then it will all be made right. (That and some other crazy things like transubstantiation made him into a regular churchgoer who decided never to take communion.) Purgatory just didn't seem right, nor did any of Dante's circles, to say the least, so they just invented a new place. Catholic church way ahead of its time in "curating" a new narrative out of the ancient texts. You can't just leave to the faithful, heck, they'll never be done with it, Torah scholars still argue all day every day after millennia, you've got to tell them what to think.

Yes, Paul was the first

ocean-kat — Sun, 27 May 2018 23:37:52 +0000

In reply to Paul says that the Jewish law

Yes, Paul was the first christian to reject Jesus' clear injunction to hold to the law. According to the stories the actual disciples of Jesus disagreed with him on that and many other issues. Paul was actually such a strong influence on christianity and made so many changes to Christ's teachings that the religion should more appropriately be called Paulism.

Paul says that the Jewish law

Aaron Carine — Sun, 27 May 2018 23:16:53 +0000

In reply to Of course you cherry pick.

Paul says that the Jewish law isn't binding on Christians, and every Christian sect I know of considers that canon.

Well that tree of life thing

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 27 May 2018 21:11:00 +0000

In reply to But Catholics don't do Sunday

Well that tree of life thing in the Garden of Eden was about readin', weren't it? People getting too smart for their own britches before they even owned britches. If Eve had been collecting grocery coupons like she was supposed to and not getting Adam all conflicted & genuflected over a bunch of fool writings he didn't have any inkling of... well, you see where it got to, them boys fighting with each other, and then a snake's a snake, ain't it? Took Trump to step on it, crush them misguided thoughts out of existence. Bet they had a wall around Eden, keep all the riffraff out - why they called it Paradise.

PS - them Catholics are going to hell. Just see what they did in Ireland. Can't trust em. And that Pope of theirs - might as well wrap up the world with a bow and deliver it to Satan. Not that I'm prejudiced or anything, but some things are just too damn much.

But Catholics don't do Sunday

artappraiser — Sun, 27 May 2018 20:15:42 +0000

In reply to Though the problem with jokes

But Catholics don't do Sunday School! And they don't read the Bible either! So there. The priests get educated and they then tell you about which parts of the Bible to believe. And they don't quote the other parts, no need for you to bother your pretty head about the other parts. Simple theocracy! Works for a religion! Started before there were printed books and before most people could read, but worked so well they continued with it. None of this reading and interpreting things for oneself, tends to muck things up.

Though the problem with jokes

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 27 May 2018 20:02:00 +0000

In reply to Yes, but I'm quoting the

Though the problem with jokes is sometimes they turn into more serious than funny and gain a life of their own - like Trump, initially he seemed preposterous, and then gradually the word "preposterous" lost its prior energy.
But whatever, it's Sunday, might as well have Sunday school.

Yes, but I'm quoting the

ocean-kat — Sun, 27 May 2018 19:16:54 +0000

In reply to Hey Flav - they're quoting

Yes, but I'm quoting the bible as a joke. Kinda like I'd quote Infowars. But just like Infowars some people actually believe the crap written in the bible. Com trails, walking on water, Agenda 21, the virgin birth, mostly I can't tell the difference. Except that Alex Jones isn't nearly as pathologically savage and murderous as many of the authors of the bible.

Hey Flav - they're quoting

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 27 May 2018 19:08:07 +0000

In reply to Some of my best friends

Hey Flav - they're quoting bible scripture over here. Are you a prophet, or what have you done? I'm expecting an ecstatic movement for 2018, but not *this* ecstatic. "walk across that swimming pool" indeed.

The head and founder of the

ocean-kat — Sun, 27 May 2018 19:01:19 +0000

In reply to I think the head of Westboro

The head and founder of the whole "christian" movement is dead too, for almost 2,000 years but the nonsense still continues. I'm not sure what your point is. The Westboro Baptist Church still exists too. 2,000 years of irrationality is a monumental example of human gullibility. One wonders how many more years people will continue to be conned by a 2,000 year old scam.

I think the head of Westboro

rmrd0000 — Sun, 27 May 2018 17:53:52 +0000

In reply to Your basic argument is that

I think the head of Westboro Baptist is dead.

You are arguing that different people have different interpretations. It is the same thing thing that happens in secular life. Different conclusions from the same observations.