That wasn’t me you quoted, CarnalK.
Oops. Yeah, I was quoting the OP. You seemed to specifically avoid that mistake.
I pick the God of Abraham, on the Mount, with the Knife, and may all three of them burn in Hell.
And just what the fuck, pray tell, is wrong with what he did? He wanted to thank God (which I’m never really a fan of doing publicly), and specify which God he wanted to thank.
You seem to disengenuously imply that it would be fine that he would “Thank God”, but the fact that he specified which God is simply horrible. Why? He is not invoking a ceremonial god, or god for all; he is expressing his personal thanks to his personal God. There might have been little chance of him being misinterpreted, but the chance is there, so he qualified it. Big fucking deal
You seem to simply have a bug up your ass about someone expressing his religious beliefs. And you saw this benign expression as a target for your blind intolerance of religious expression.
Conclusion: You are an intolerant dick. One with the blue bulbous head, to be specific.
As far as the rest of the posters here, please explain what makes it so wrong that a person thanking God at an event like this would specify the God he was thanking. Those whose eyes rol at any expression of faith need not reply, just hose who think there is some line that was crossed by his specifying which God.
Heya Maggy. Long time, no see. Still a thickheaded fuckwit, aren’t ya?
Here’s one teensy lil problem with his comment. Ya see, folks that worship the “God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob” generally believe that’s the only one that exists. When he feels the need to specify which god he wishes to thank, he implies that there are alternatives, which goes against the traditions of the faith he’s trying to endorse.
Well that was stupid: if he was thanking the god of Abraham, then, to him, there is “no other god”, so no need to avoid all those other lesser gods.
Me I’d like to thank a god to be named later for the idiots that keep me amused with their religion.
God*durnit! Oaky said it first.
*God to be named later.
I just don’t see what the big deal is. Maybe the guy is one of those folks that believes there are other gods, just gods he isn’t to have before his own?
Maybe it should have been an IMHO thread.
Maybe I shouldn’t venture into the Pit on these long and boring nights…
To point out the painfully obvious, do you think it might just be possible that he might be aware that other people do not hold his belief and acknowledge other gods? That he has heard tell of *other people * praising other gods?I mean, you are aware of people doing that aren’t you? (I realize this might not go well, asking you to think and all.) And, for the record, it is against his faith to honor any other gods, not to merely acknowledge that others do. In fact, that is why the commandment is there:
“I am the Lord thy God, You shall not have any other Gods before me.”
One more thing, if you’re going to try to pipe up and defend the OP, you might want to understand the points he did and did not make. Not that it matters in this case, as you have offered your usual blubberings.
Awwww. You’re so cute when you try to argue with your betters. SQUEEE
And nope. Karana as my witness, I’ve never, ever, heard of anyone praising other gods. :wally
I don’t have a lot of use for Reggie White’s brand of theology and I can see the humor in the posts ridiculing his son. Just in the interest of the Straight Dope[sup]®[/sup], however, I would point out that Reggie had come under the tutelage of various adherents of a brand of Christianity that spends a fair amount of time studying the Torah. An appeal to the God of “Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob” would have been less about denying Allah (or Tiamat) and more about re-affirming the Old Testament connections of Christianity. I suppose it’s still fair game for ridicule, but it may not have been intended in the way some folks have taken it.
Translation: you got nothin’. If you have a literate friend you might ask him to point out how the points you thought you were making were eviscerated.
But Allah is allegedly the “God of Abraham et al”. Same entity, different name.
Here’s the quote from the link in the OP:
Hello. I would first like to thank God, but I would like to specify which God. I’d like to thank the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob for making me, my dad, and this whole event, giving us the strength that I know me and my mom are about to receive.
The problem is bolded. That phrase implies that there are other gods…not other names (Allah) for the one he chose to invoke. If he had just said he wanted to thank the “God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob”, I wouldn’t have a problem with it. Public expressions of faith are protected speech. Misunderstanding one’s own faith is funny, at least among us heathens.
Ooohhh. Eviscerated. Nice word. Was it on your Word-A-Day Calender recently?
Look at what the guy said. Whether he understood what he was saying or not is debateable, but as written, he clearly implied the existence of other gods. Spin it all you want, but you can’t change his statement.
Are you aware of other religions? Are you aware that adherents to some of them pray to different Gods? Do you not think that Reggie White’s son is also aware of these other religions and their repective Gods?
As I pointed out, the commandment itself acknowledges that others might believe in other gods. Do you really think that he is unaware of the commandment? Do you really believe that he believes in multiple Gods and just wanted to specify this one God this one day?
You are being ridiculous. The supposed problem you have with him is one you must have with the commandment itself. I suggest you disavow yourself from this nonsense and come back to annoy me another day with a semblance of respect intact.
Arlready told ya, me and Karana never heard of that. Shall I check with Thor, Bast, and Zeus for ya?
Again, read what he said. Arguably, he broke the Commandment you cited by suggesting that there are other gods of equal or greater status.
Thanks for confirming that I annoy you. happy dance
This must be a joke. You simply—yes, even you—cannot be this dumb. Again, it is not agaiinst his religion to acknowledge that others acknowledge other gods. Hence, the commandment.
Yeah, over-confident cock-sure loudmouths spewing stupidity does kind of annoy me. I’m funny that way. Enjoy your success.
Afraid I missed the memo about how your personal spin is the only possible interpetation of any given remark. Did you get it from a burning bush?
Exactly. Muslims believe that Allah is the same God as the Christian and the Jewish God. The stories of Abraham, Moses and Jesus (amongst others) are told in the Koran, and it is made explicitly clear that the God they worshipped may have had a different name, but the entity is identical.
Magellan01, any way I read it, the guy’s statement did not merely acknowledge that others might believe there are other gods. The form of word he used (intentionally or otherwise) acknowledged that there were other gods. Which is a contradiction of his own religious beliefs. Saying “I’d like to specify which God” cannot correctly be parsed any other way than as containing a necessary implication that there are other gods. Not that others believe there are other gods, but that there are other gods.
If you can’t parse English, you can’t, I guess.