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[lostsheep]

Kate, please, no more pictures! I have a horrible phobia of these things. I swear to god I am not going to be able to sleep tonight.

[Ed-M]

Sternwallow wrote

I wonder how much of Christianity one can disbelieve and still be a Christian, but I guess I'll never know until the last "believer" dies.

Being a former Christain myself, I'd say all of them, except:

The existence of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost in one fashion or another.
The natural "fallen" human state of "original sin."
Jesus attempting to get out of his suicide-murder, ordered by his Father.
Jesus being sentenced to death by a cowardly (HA!) Pontius Pilate at the behest of a crowd of random Jews.
Jesus' brutalisation and bloody, painful, humiliating death from the torture and gross indecency known as crucifixion -- so long that he was nailed to a tropaeum or a simple post and not an actual crux.
That his death was a propitiary sacrifice for our sins, but only if we believe!
Jesus' resurrection anywhere from 36 to 72 hours later, with no damage or decomposition save for the prints of the nails and the stab wound of the spear.
His ascension into Heaven.
His eventual return.

[Sternwallow]

Ed-M wrote

Being a former Christain myself, I'd say all of them, except:

The existence of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost in one fashion or another.
The natural "fallen" human state of "original sin."
Jesus attempting to get out of his suicide-murder, ordered by his Father.
Jesus being sentenced to death by a cowardly (HA!) Pontius Pilate at the behest of a crowd of random Jews.
Jesus' brutalisation and bloody, painful, humiliating death from the torture and gross indecency known as crucifixion -- so long that he was nailed to a tropaeum or a simple post and not an actual crux.
That his death was a propitiary sacrifice for our sins, but only if we believe!
Jesus' resurrection anywhere from 36 to 72 hours later, with no damage or decomposition save for the prints of the nails and the stab wound of the spear.
His ascension into Heaven.
His eventual return.

And then there was Thomas Jefferson, darling of the Christians, who literally stripped all the things you listed above and more, to make his own Bible retaining only the "teachings" of Jesus, and who is lumped in with the "Christian" founding fathers of America.

[Ed-M]

Sternwallow wrote

And then there was Thomas Jefferson, darling of the Christians, who literally stripped all the things you listed above and more, to make his own Bible retaining only the "teachings" of Jesus, and who is lumped in with the "Christian" founding fathers of America.

Yes, he's the darling of the Christains, except when he is not. They love to trot out made-up (usually by David Barton) quotes they attribute to him, but in reality they despise him. In the recent Texas Board of Education scandal over how US history is to be taught, Thomas Jefferson was essentially edited out of the subject matter required to be in the schoolbooks.

[ghoulslime]

Kate wrote

Can haz banana!

[ghoulslime]

Sol wrote

This is what gets on my very last arse hair…. You ask em a simple, straightforward, honest question.
What do you get eh ?
Some condescending response from the mealy-mouthed crotch pheasants along the lines of its tooooo simple a question for such a complex subject !!!!
They are happy to jump all over the fucking star gazing, arithmetic, philosophy bullshit….looking for that gap that their collective sphincters ever twitch for. Just so they can spread their flaccid buttocks apart and shit their purile fucking fantasies into whatever small amount of space they think they’ve found…

They hop about from gap to gap like demented flamingos at a fucking temazepam party. Happy to pretend they have answers, (they are, after all, masters of fantasy.).
They impress no-one with their pseudo-scientific bullshit, yet, they are happy to engage in subjects for which their knowledge amounts to the square root of fuck-all…

But, ask em a simple question eh, and as if by magic…… no reply is the answer….

They don’t even have the common decency to acknowledge that they are dishonest useless fucking fantasists, whose weaselling responses aren’t really replies….

Fuck em.

You've got to take care of your ass hairs in later years. Some day, they may be all that one has to value in this shitty world. I made the mistake of growing my ass hairs out, and weaving them into a neck scarf for Lily's birthday a few years back. The bitch never even gave me a rim job! Oh, the folly of youth!

[Kinich Ahau]

I wouldn't be too disappointed. she probably turned it in to one of these:


Hairshirt (Latin cilicium; French cilice).
A garment of rough cloth made from goats' hair and worn in the form of a shirt or as a girdle around the loins, by way of mortification and penance.