And she was a Texan? Wow, how times have changed…
[sub]Please don’t shoot me.[/sub]
Hilarious - this is my favorite:
At least they got that the site was a parody.
Mangetout, this is nearly word for word what the pastor said at my mother’s funeral four weeks ago. The fact that he took the opportunity to “preach” at my mother’s funeral service was irritating enough (he even made an altar call), but his statement that the bible he was waving “contained all the answers to life’s questions, and [that he] has never found an error in it” really caused me to clench my jaws and grind my teeth.
It did, but people like the “martyrdom” version better.
*Posted by blowero *
There was a letter to the editor in * Reader’s Digest * from a woman protesting the magazine’s interview of J.K Rowling because, the woman said, she had seen in * The Onion * that the profits from * Harry Potter * all go to the Church of Satan. The editor replied gently that * The Onion * is satire, which, given the idiocy displayed in the original letter, I doubt the writer could define.
I like the clueless people who were like “Gosh, I don’t think Mrs. Bush would appreciate this. I’m going to write her right now and let her know.”
Actually, not only was Cassie Bernall not asked if she believed in God, a young woman named Valeen Schnurr was by one of the killers at Columbine, and he reloaded but didn’t shoot her. Here’s a cite from Salon.com, since I can’t get the http:// button to work:
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/09/30/bernall/print.html
There seems to be a need among some Christians to try to depict themselves as victims of a corrupt and oppressive government or society. I am a devout Christian, and I have to disagree. If Christianity were in danger, I somehow doubt every firehall in the area would be advertising Friday night Fish Frys!
By the way, Mangetout, did you talk to the priest about this? After my minister once preached a sermon on abortion, during the course of which he mentioned he asked God called to " educate him about this", I went up to him and said, “You asked for an education; you’re about to get one.” Then again, he was a friend, and we knew how to disagree with each other while still respecting each other.
CJ
Regrettably there was not time to tackle the preacher himself, as I was busy rounding up children (mine and someone else’s) after the service; I’m not entirely sure how well I would have fared; the guy has built himself pretty much an impenetrable logic of unfalsifiability; anyone who tries to argue against him is either an unbeliever or a backslider and is therefore wrong and can be substantially ignored.
(this might seem like a huge assumption, but remember, I have only related a couple of brief statements from a 35 minute talk)
'Scuse the delay. IIRC it goes like this:
The Times is read by the men who run the country
The Daily Mail is read by wives of the men who run the country
The Daily Mirror is read by the men who think they run the country
The Guardian is read by the men who think they ought to run the country
The Morning Star is read by the men who think the country ought to be run by another country
The Daily Express is read by the men who think the country ought to be run the way it used to be run *
The Daily Telegraph is read by the men who think it still is
The Sun is read by the men who don’t care who runs the country, as long as she has big tits and runs Bingo games.
- Less true now than formerly, the Express’s editorial slant has changed a bit over the last few years
Tisn’t. The council says the Telegraph story is false.
I don’t know who said it first, but according to my Mom, my uncle said it many times. (And yes, he was serious.)
Actually. I kind of preferred this one:
Is that OUR Bryan Eckers?
:eek:
matt, James I was not a Catholic-he was a High Church Anglican. His mother, Mary, Queen of Scots WAS Catholic.
If he had been Catholic, he would have included parts of the Apocrypha. (At least, the ones that are so to Protestants, not Catholics).
Update:
“Paper sorry for ‘banned buns’ story”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2944005.stm
The story that sparked this whole thread has turned out to be false. Hand a printout to your minister, Mangetout, and let us know if he passes the correction on to the congregation.
Ah yes. The quality of the press is clearly reverting to the bad old days. Check out The Museum of Hoaxes http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/category.html for some real doozies.
Nog
FWIW, I did mention this three weeks ago. See page 1 of this thread, near the bottom.
Cite?!
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*Originally posted by lno *
[sub]Please don’t shoot me.[/sub]
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Don’t worry, lno, none of us here are Texan. 
[sub]looks around shiftilly[/sub]
Re: screaming “CITE?” in church:
It’s better than screaming, “FUCKO OFF”. 
RE: The cross:
It’s a good thing Jesus was crucified. Can you imagine how depressing the religion would be if he was hung, and their symbol was the noose? Or what if he’d just slipped and fell and the symbol was the banana peel?
So you did. Sorry. The BBC story just came out this weekend so I thought it was a new report (and the Telegraph admitting the story was false was news, at least).