The Xtians have their uses when one needs to distract a lion or two
Slip.
On 25 Dec, 01:37, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote:
> It is true that some xtians treat non associates like a disease. I
> have a next door neighbor who has on several occasions accused me of
> perpetrating some ridiculous action on his property. Stupid stuff like
> "did you turn on my hose and leave it on?". I'm always just so
> dumbfounded by the nonsense I can't begin to know how to respond to
> him other than laughing with a counter question "are you crazy?".
> When his car was blocking part of my driveway and I told him about it
> he responded with "Why are you persecuting me?", it is really
> laughable. The wife comes running out of the house sometimes when I'm
> out in the driveway to say "Have you been saved, Slip are you saved?",
> to which I can't help but laugh but the funniest and last time she
> spoke was when the 250 pound woman came out and with both arms out in
> front of her and says, "The blood of Jesus runs through my veins,
> Slip" to which I couldn't help myself with the response "Really? well
> then you better tell Jesus to get to a doctor because it looks like he
> has a serious cholesterol problem", it truly is comically
> entertaining.
>
> On Dec 24, 12:15 am, archytas <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > Here is an enjoyably impudent piece of research from Innsbruck
> > University. People were observed buying newspapers, using an honesty
> > box to pay. They were interviewed later - so the person with the
> > clipboard seemed unconnected with the newspaper purchase - and asked
> > about age, occupation and attitudes. Men cheated more than women;
> > people over 50 cheated more than the young; higher education made no
> > difference; and by a long chalk churchgoers cheated most. This may be
> > a statistical anomaly. But we all know one thing: religion no more
> > makes people good than lack of it makes the rest of us bad.
>
> > Secularists take offence too at the way the religious paint
> > unbelievers as poor desiccated rationalists, not only without values,
> > but joyless, lacking a sense of mystery, devoid of awe. Yet,
> > earthbound, there is enough wonder in the infinite capacity of the
> > human imagination, in a magical world of thought, dream, hope, memory
> > and fantasy. To be human is not to be particularly rational, the
> > senses often overwhelming common sense. There is no emotional or
> > spiritual deficiency in rejecting religions that infantilise the
> > imagination with impossible beliefs.
>
> > The above is from Polly Toynbee - a Guardian staff writer.
> > Apparently, buses with atheist adverts have attracted substantial
> > funding of late. It's the Anglo Saxon New Year - no doubt after a
> > merry pagan festival we will once again ride out spreading love
> > (battle axes for tree chopping only!). To be fair we took on Xtianity
> > as rather better than our gods of fertility and war - though this
> > seems to have made us even more warlike. Time for a secular peace
> > campaign. All the best, all.- Hide quoted text -
>
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