More Famous All the Time

[angus argyle]

http://www.iidb.org/vbb/showthread.php?t=232833

Way to go Pastafarians...

[Robbobrob]

Good stuff. CAn't believe that Pastafarians made them look like laughingstocks, by their own admission.

Too funny.

And if all else fails, blame the media.

[epictetus]

This deserves to be added to the library of pastafarianism:


what should be so strange about a perosn believing in an all powerful flying clump of spaghetti that created the world? It's no more strange than the belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie named Jesus who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.



Respectfully, and in loving plagiarism,

RAmen!

Reverend Doctor Epictetus, Th.D.

[MPTrooper]

This deserves to be added to the library of pastafarianism:


what should be so strange about a perosn believing in an all powerful flying clump of spaghetti that created the world? It's no more strange than the belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie named Jesus who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.



Respectfully, and in loving plagiarism,

RAmen!

Reverend Doctor Epictetus, Th.D.

Yeah but see most Christians don't believe that. I'm sure most atheist's believe that, but we theist's for the most part don't.

[Cricket]

This deserves to be added to the library of pastafarianism:


what should be so strange about a perosn believing in an all powerful flying clump of spaghetti that created the world? It's no more strange than the belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie named Jesus who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.



Respectfully, and in loving plagiarism,

RAmen!

Reverend Doctor Epictetus, Th.D.

Yeah but see most Christians don't believe that. I'm sure most atheist's believe that, but we theist's for the most part don't.

This may be a regional deal, in our own little Michigan corner of the Bible Belt, because around here a whole lot of very vocal Christians believe exactly that. I get a lecture on some, sometimes all, of those points about once a week. With occasional comic relief from the "King James is the *only* Bible that counts".

I may be extra lucky with that because I'm basically a nice person, and a lot of my customers can't reconcile that with me not being Christian ('cause that just doesn't *happen*!!), so someone tries to save me at least once a week. Admittedly, the Holland area is famous for this stuff - the movie "Hardcore" was originally set in Holland, but they filmed in Grand Rapids supposedly because they couldn't get around Holland's blue laws (plus G.R. had better "grungy apartment buildings" locations).

I do believe that there are areas where a lot of the extreme characterizations of Christians don't hold true, but trust me, there are large areas where they do. Those areas are what sets off a lot of the knee-jerk reactions those of us who live with it daily are, unfortunately, prone to.

I once got canned by a shoeing customer because she asked me why horses had chestnuts, and I told her they were an evolutionary artifact. She got very upset that I would talk "that way" in front of her children...of course she *asked* me in front of her children...sigh...

[ChasIam]

......... ut once a week. With occasional comic relief from the "King James is the *only* Bible that counts". .............

So I am not the only one that hears that guff about the King James bible. I made mention of this in a previous post referring to a guy I work with that says the King James version is the right bible and is factually correct. He made it a point to inform a coworker who happens to be a Mormon that Mormons use the wrong bible. My head hasn't exploded yet but tomorrow is another day.

[pieces o'nine]

With occasional comic relief from the "King James is the *only* Bible that counts".

One of my favorite instructors (a priest) referred to that one as: "The King James Version. You know, the one that Jesus wrote."

Too bad clerics seldom make those types of jokes in front of the people who are stuck believing it's true because it says it's true because its says it's true...

[Cricket]

You know, the one that Jesus wrote."

Goes right along with the famous, if likely apocryphal, "If English was good enough for God (or Jesus), it's good enough for me!"

Even my incredibly pig-headed self has given up explaining that evolution and the origins of life are two seperate, if related, issues.

[St John the Blasphemist]

Goes right along with the famous, if likely apocryphal, "If English was good enough for God (or Jesus), it's good enough for me!"

Does anyone remember the time before King James when Latin was God's language?

what should be so strange about a perosn believing in an all powerful flying clump of spaghetti that created the world? It's no more strange than the belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie named Jesus who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.

I believe George Carlin deserves some credit here (yeah, yeah. I'm sure you all know who said it first, but, hey, you woulda got failed for plagiarism on your assignment if you didn't mention them).

St John the Blasphemist
Saint of Source Naming