Another kid dies for Jebus (TFT)

[Broga]

meg1448 wrote

Let's give them the benefit of the doubt...after all, we all know that faith healing takes a loooong time to be effective.

But if it doesn't work it means they just are not praying hard enough or believing with sufficient fervour. If all else fails then a massive financial contribution will do the trick. The more you give to your faith guru ther more god loves you.

[Broga]

Kate wrote

Darwin in action.

I watched Inherit the Wind yesterday evening - not for the first time. They had changed Mencken's name - and Clarence Darrows - and I don't know why. Anyway, the were easily recognisable. What the film did not do, and couldn't do, was convey the full horror, dishonesty and stupidity of a community mired in religious superstition. If you read Mencken you discover that these religious megalomaniacs get their kicks any way they can. I liked a discription of Mencken's of the men at some ceremony in the woods piling on top of some nubile woman who had transgressed. Masturbation in the name of Jesus and with a real, live attractive woman.

Philboid Studge wrote

Catholics contend that Jeebus went to Hell for a couple days, bringing backstage passes to Heaven for all the holy schmucks who'd croaked before He did.

Yeah, pretty much what Phil said......but I think they're a teeeeeeny bit more polite about how they put it (ergo, their unwelcomed status here!)