Discussion Thread from the Funny Anti-Religious Pictures thread.

[HoodedRat]

Yes, the thread that only exists so the mods can salve their consciences for allowing an entire thread that is contrary to the code of conduct because it's based on making fun of other people.

But it's not making fun of 'people'; the 'Funny anti-religious Internet pics' thread is laughing at ridiculous religious beliefs.

 

[belamyi]

^ You mean like laughing at the history of England has nothing to do with laughing at English people, or mocking British culture is different from mocking at the British.

 

[HoodedRat]

^
Sure.

I don't care if someone laughs at the history of England, mocks British culture, or whatever.

Come to think of it, I wouldn't really care if they laughed at me personally.

 

[belamyi]

^ But what has Britain got to do with you

 

[johaninsc]

first I thought it was an error

now I know it wasn't

*waits for post to evaporate...*

 

[belamyi]

Re: Funny anti-religious Internet pics

It's Jesus and the Gospels, with their hippie love teachings, what made the people gay: just look at the Roman Empire before Christ, and all the perversion and weakeness that led to its demise, right after Christianism being officially tolerated and, finally, made the official religion of the empire.
While the Jewish have remained strong and united, depiste every calamity in their history, by sticking to the true, old teachings of what Christians call "Old Testament": they have the whole Middle East in check and, with that, the whole Western World. Not to speak of the fact that the Western World has taken over the rest of the world only after it started to sticking to the Bible. And what of America: it was not the Bible and the rifle that helped them shake the British yoke, and the USA became the greatest, dominant nation only after they started shaking the yoke of the superstitious, fake Biblical tales.
Look at all the so-called ancient barbarian peoples in Europe, and how became weaker after converting to Christianity, mellowing and finally turning gay.

 

[Zeno Lorea]

Re: Funny anti-religious Internet pics

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Can anybody tell me where this meme comes from?

 

[Kahaih]

Re: Funny anti-religious Internet pics

Can anybody tell me where this meme comes from?

That is from the nighttime/weekly soap opera/series Shameless. HBO, I think.

I watched a couple of seasons before I gave it up as complete rubbish.

 

[Jacquemar]

Bumped for those interested in a discussion.

 

[Kulindahr]

That's not fair to Osteen; he inherited most of his wealth and managed it well; presently he doesn't even take a salary from his church.

He's a nutty preacher IMO, but he's not a parasite.

 

[belamyi]

^ Then he does not manage a church that sucks the blood out of its believers' banking accounts?

 

[Kulindahr]

^ Then he does not manage a church that sucks the blood out of its believers' banking accounts?

From what I've been able to find -- and I was looking to try to slam the guy -- everything given at the church goes to something beneficial for people. The shadiest thing I could find is a charge that he uses the church and its programs to sell his books.

 

[belamyi]

From what I've been able to find -- and I was looking to try to slam the guy -- everything given at the church goes to something beneficial for people. The shadiest thing I could find is a charge that he uses the church and its programs to sell his books.

So you would find it rather hair-splitting that he builds a name through a church attracting all the holy Joes and Janes it can manage, so that he can then sell out his press junk.
You know that Hezbollah too goes around handing out stuff beneficial for [their] people. If that included wedding cakes for gay people, I might say, ok, they do not seem THAT bad after all, my wrong.

 

[Kulindahr]

So you would find it rather hair-splitting that he builds a name through a church attracting all the holy Joes and Janes it can manage, so that he can then sell out his press junk.
You know that Hezbollah too goes around handing out stuff beneficial for [their] people. If that included wedding cakes for gay people, I might say, ok, they do not seem THAT bad after all, my wrong.

Out of a $90 million budget it seems they spend $70 million on the church itself, for keeping it flashy, doing TV programs, etc.

Only a couple of million actually goes to "outreach", which includes helping people. I can't find a breakdown of how much goes to church members or outsiders.

The numbers talk a bit different than just reports.

 

[Negasta]

 

[belamyi]

Out of a $90 million budget it seems they spend $70 million on the church itself, for keeping it flashy, doing TV programs, etc.

Only a couple of million actually goes to "outreach", which includes helping people. I can't find a breakdown of how much goes to church members or outsiders.

The numbers talk a bit different than just reports.

So just the average business.

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American-style.

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Praise to the Lord.

 

[Zeno Lorea]

Re: Funny anti-religious Internet pics

Indeed. The press tends to use the word militant to describe religious people who murder and non-religious people who asked pertinent questions.

 

[johaninsc]

bumping this thread in case anyone wants to whine about my posts

 

[frankfrank]

Re: Funny anti-religious Internet pics [2012 - 2021 Edition]

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I've believed for years that "imaginary playmates" are remnants of a prior life, or two people who have met and become friends in the extrasensory world.

I believe humans (perhaps not all humans) are born with a rudimentary form of ESP or paranormal perception, but there is a strong feedback loop in operation: because nearly no adults are aware of this instinct, it is rarely if ever encouraged or nurtured and, eventually, like any muscle that isn't used for a long time, it atrophies and wastes away. As that person grows up, they can't nurture it in their children, because any sense of it has disappeared.

The same thing is passed down to future generations.

 

[Peloso]

Re: Funny anti-religious Internet pics [2012 - 2021 Edition]

I've believed for years that "imaginary playmates" are remnants of a prior life, or two people who have met and become friends in the extrasensory world.

I believe humans (perhaps not all humans) are born with a rudimentary form of ESP or paranormal perception, but there is a strong feedback loop in operation: because nearly no adults are aware of this instinct, it is rarely if ever encouraged or nurtured and, eventually, like any muscle that isn't used for a long time, it atrophies and wastes away. As that person grows up, they can't nurture it in their children, because any sense of it has disappeared.

The same thing is passed down to future generations.

This could all be true. Babies have no knowledge of time, which prevents them from thinking of it in a linear fashion, freeing them to experience it in a non-linear fashion, which some believe makes things like precognition possible. Additionally, babies lack the communication skills to express what they experience.

What we call paranormal might be natural phenomena that our human brains are simply unable to perceive. That's the trade off for our superior intelligence.
Perhaps there's all kinds of stuff going on around us that we can't pick up on due to the limited power of our senses.

A giant, needy sky-man is probably not one of them.