# Omnibus Religious Fucks in the NEWS **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 7, 2022, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066 "2022-02-07T18:33:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2022, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/41 "2022-02-10T16:14:00Z")
😁 Nah, they do this while standing up. We have to have a blessing whenever there’s a group meal, like the company Thanksgiving lunch. I work for a company that supplies safety-related parts and services for large diesel generators. I’ve been told that, prior to the company’s acquisition in the '90s, it was a common practice for managers to gather in a conference room and pray whenever there was an emergency or expedited order. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2022, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/42 "2022-02-10T18:59:02Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > > [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > > > 2 years my bleeding ass. - > > You’ll have to go to the rectory for that. “Rector? Nearly _killed_ her!” ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/43 "2022-02-11T17:41:32Z")
Or in my area, the very delicious [Pets des soeurs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pets_de_s%C5%93urs). ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/44 "2022-02-11T18:14:13Z")
There’s praying in public schools in California. In my room right now, in fact, because I just announced a quiz in 3 minutes! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/45 "2022-02-11T18:17:19Z")
…throws rotten fruit at **silenus** … ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/46 "2022-02-11T18:40:00Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > …throws rotten fruit at **silenus** … - That’s just wine in solid form. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2022, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/47 "2022-03-21T02:39:09Z")
A Riverside County Christian pre-school is asking parents to help cover-up anti-Biden indoctrination: > **[Riverside County parent furious after teacher leads political chant involving...](https://abc7.com/riverside-county-teacher-leads-political-chant-in-preschool-video-joe-biden/11662414/)** > > An Eastvale mother is furious after discovering a video showing her daughter's preschool teacher leading a political chant in which the students were calling for President Joe Biden to leave office. “You can hear a teacher asking the students, “Who’s our President.” The students then respond in unison, “Biden!” The teacher then asks the students “What do we want to do with him?” and the students respond twice, “We want him out!”” The school’s response? “We use Brightwheel as a parent communication app to share about your child’s day and activities. Earlier today a video was posted that has since been deleted as it did not share our school and church philosophy of honoring and respecting authority including those in government positions,” the message said.", but then it continued with “We are sorry for any misunderstanding this could of (sic) created. With courtesy towards the families of our campus and the children in the classroom I am asking you to please not share with others or post the video on any social media platform.” ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2022, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/48 "2022-03-21T02:42:41Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Earlier today a video was posted that has since been deleted as it did not share our school and church philosophy of honoring and respecting authority including those in government positions,” the message said.", but then it continued with “We are sorry for any misunderstanding this could of (sic) created. - “We’re very sorry we got caught and will strive to better cover up any such future occurrences.” ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2022, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/49 "2022-03-21T03:05:12Z")
I’d just like to generally rant about about these delusional fucks. I’m sick of them. I’m not talking about all religious peeps, but most of them are simply awful. I know not all of them are Greg Locke. Some of them are great people, but they are all complicit in promoting “faith” as a good way to answers questions as big as how we got here and where we “go” when we die. I’m so tired of these people because there’s no good reasons to believe in this stupid shit any more. I’m so frustrated with this stuff. It seems like it’ll get worse before it gets better. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2022, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/50 "2022-03-21T04:09:35Z")
[More than $7.4 million is alleged to have been defrauded from Sydney’s Moriah College](https://www.australianjewishnews.com/charges-laid-over-alleged-moriah-fraud-case/) by its former financial controller; last Thursday Gus Nosti was arrested and charged. Imagine how rich that school must be to not notice they were a tad short of the readies for 12 freakin’ years. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2022, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/51 "2022-03-21T05:18:43Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > A Riverside County Christian pre-school is asking parents to help cover-up anti-Biden indoctrination: Multiple people should lose their jobs over this. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2022, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/52 "2022-03-21T18:33:57Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > “You can hear a teacher asking the students, “Who’s our President.” The students then respond in unison, “Biden!” The teacher then asks the students “What do we want to do with him?” and the students respond twice, “We want him out!”” And it’s _our side_ that are indoctrinating students? ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2022, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/53 "2022-03-21T18:45:18Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > And it’s _our side_ that are indoctrinating students? indoctrinate/educate Tomato/tomato ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2022, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/54 "2022-03-21T22:40:37Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > And it’s _our side_ that are indoctrinating students? I don’t think this is about sides, it’s about people (and/or particular institutions). There is nothing inherent to either political philosophy that either precludes or encourages indoctrination. (That being said, I’m not engaging in bothsidesism here. In my eyes, only one side indoctrinates people in the **wrong** things.) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2022, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/55 "2022-03-21T22:55:53Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > I was disappointed to discover that “speaking in tongues” does not mean someone suddenly starts speaking in fluent Urdu or Basque. Just gibberish, with the hands in the mandatory above-the-head position. I’m continually befuddled by that. When the Apostles spoke, and all present, from all over the known world, understood them, that was a proper miracle, and attributing it to God is clearly praise of Him. When you speak so that no one can understand you, though, that’s perfectly mundane: Anyone at all can do that one. And attributing it to God is a clear insult to Him, because it’s saying that he turns something good, intelligible speech, into something bad, unintelligible speech. Why would any religious person tolerate such disrespect of God? ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2022, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/56 "2022-03-21T23:13:53Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > I was disappointed to discover that “speaking in tongues” does not mean someone suddenly starts speaking in fluent Urdu or Basque. Just gibberish, with the hands in the mandatory above-the-head position. > [@Chronos](#): > > I’m continually befuddled by that. When the Apostles spoke, and all present, from all over the known world, understood them, that was a proper miracle, and attributing it to God is clearly praise of Him. When you speak so that no one can understand you, though, that’s perfectly mundane: Anyone at all can do that one. “Speaking in tongues” is unintelligible; the miracle of the New Testament is called by the fairly recently-coined term “xenoglossy”, which was first used in 1905. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2022, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/57 "2022-03-21T23:17:46Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Why would any religious person tolerate such disrespect of God? The vast majority of Christians would agree, it’s only particular sects like Pentecostalism that venerate it. > [@Riemann](#): > > I was disappointed to discover that “speaking in tongues” does not mean someone suddenly starts speaking in fluent Urdu or Basque. Just gibberish, with the hands in the mandatory above-the-head position. But that’s what speaking tongues used to mean. Thomas Aquinas in the 1200s assumed that the “gift of tongues” mentioned in the New Testament was in fact the ability to speak in a way that anyone can understand you. It wasn’t until centuries later that it was interpreted as the ability to speak in a language that only the Divine can understand. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2022, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/58 "2022-03-22T00:05:20Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > “Speaking in tongues” is unintelligible Tell that to the practicing Christians who use the expression to describe something that happens every week during their worship. > [@Atamasama](#): > > But that’s what speaking tongues used to mean. Yes. I heard people every week “speaking in tongues” in my parents’ Pentecostal church as a child, and I assumed that what I was hearing was some genuine foreign language. It was only later that I realized it was simply gibberish. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2022, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/59 "2022-03-22T03:22:55Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > And attributing it to God is a clear insult to Him, because it’s saying that he turns something good, intelligible speech, into something bad, unintelligible speech. Why would any religious person tolerate such disrespect of God? See: [Genesis 11:1-9](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2011&version=KJV) > [@](#): > > 4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. > > 5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. > > 6 And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. > > 7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. > > 8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. > > 9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2022, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/60 "2022-03-22T03:35:38Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > Yes. I heard people every week “speaking in tongues” in my parents’ Pentecostal church as a child, and I assumed that what I was hearing was some genuine foreign language. It was only later that I realized it was simply gibberish. - Authentic Religious Gibberish as spoken by Reverend Gabby Johnson. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066.md?page=4)