h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

it's not gibberish, which is what makes it amusing. The signs are perfectly meaningful; they just don't mean what the church wants them to mean.

I know some hymns like that.

"It's fire we want, for fire we plead,
the fire will meet our every need..."

I'm feeling a little disturbed by something I just read. I've already posted this in my journal, but I think it fits here as well:

I was just reading a story on the Fox News page about the Nigerian failed-airliner-bomber and I was struck by something:

'One of Abdulmutallab's former teacher said he was shocked to hear the news. He said on Sunday that Abdulmutallab was so well-respected in high school that classmates nicknamed him "the Pope."

But Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab also showed signs of inflexibility, said Michael Rimmer, a Briton who taught history at the British International School in Lome, Togo.

He said that, in a 2001 discussion about the Taliban in Afghanistan, Abdulmutallab was the only one to defend their actions — something he attributed at the time to a desire to play the devil's advocate.

He also noted that during a school trip to London, Abdulmutallab became upset when the teacher took students to a pub and said it wasn't right to be in a place where alcohol was being served.

Rimmer said that overall, his impression of Abdulmutallab had been an extremely positive one — noting in particular an incident in which the youngster chose to give 50 pounds to an orphanage rather than spend it on souvenirs in London.'


and then:

'"At one stage, his nickname was 'The Pope,'" Rimmer said. "In one way it's totally unsuitable because he's Muslim, but he did have this saintly aura.'

a 'saintly aura'?

and then:


'"In all the time I taught him we never had cross words," Rimmer said from London in a telephone interview. "Somewhere along the line he must have met some sort of fanatics, and they must have turned his mind."'



'somewhere along the line . . .'?

I'm sorry, but the point 'along the line' was sometime before he was 'the Pope' and 'saintly' and trying to impose his silly religious crap on his fellow students by protesting the trip to the pub, not between his school days and the moment he set fire to his crotch on the airplane.

If you believe in god, everything is permitted.

the faux news story is here: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,581223,00.html

I'll second that "saintly aura"

and add a generous helping of WTF?



Or is "saintly aura" == "religious nutbar"

'course, now he's qualified to be an initiate of Cybele..

really? Did you actually find that in a news story?



Or are you just gleefully speculating?

Setting one's crotch afire, although slightly unorthodox, nevertheless demonstrates resolve, and commitment sufficient to the initiate status


To enter completely into the priesthood, I believe he is required to brandish aloft the evidence

'he is required to brandish aloft the evidence'


well, he was aloft at the time.

Yes, but doing little in the way of brandishing, as he was preoccupied curled up and moaning, if reports are true

Here's another one for the 'the religious are capable of anything' file:

'One of the most fascinating discoveries in the Dublin Archdiocese report was that of the concept of “mental reservation” which allows clerics mislead people without believing they are lying.

According to the Commission of Investigation report, “mental reservation is a concept developed and much discussed over the centuries, which permits a church man knowingly to convey a misleading impression to another person without being guilty of lying”.'

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/1126/breaking86.htm

Just like other people who vie for and need power i.e. MPs, they will lie when they need to.

this is an old one:

'Recent archaeological excavations on Cole's Hill in Plymouth, Mass., have turned up the bones of several Pilgrims, and have raised unsettling questions about how the early settlement there survived.'

http://www.genealogue.com/2005/10/genealogue-exclusive-grim-evidence.html

first they eat their god, then they eat each other.

http://www.exgaywatch.com/wp/2009/12/church-of-england-vicar-ugandans-might-actually-have-a-point/

Reverend John Richardson of the CofE says that Uganda's draconion anti-gay bill is understandable, and suggests that we should learn from them.

TRiG.

If you've got a lot of time, read this whole thing through. If you don't have a lot of time, just skim it until you find out who the evil fers are who are behind this scam for religion: http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/8CA33A4D9B3F31C08625768A001A23E1?OpenDocument

I rember that story from the newspaper. The whole things messed up on multiple levels.

Just been reading comments on the idiots blog page of Reverend John Richardson and saw someone describe themselves as 'a same sex attracted Christian'. Why, I wonder, can't they bring themselves to say gay Christian...or is that un-pc these days?!?!

Did you know, the leader of the Christian Party (George Hargreaves) wrote & produced Sinitta's gay anthem "So Macho".

http://xkcd.com/154/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8439899.stm

religious police catch unmarried couples, alone, together?????

this is ilegal under sharia law!!!!!!

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so the phrase "I am an Atheist, f off!!!" should be usefull to know!!!!!

on the subject of "I am an Atheist, f off!!!"

http://abstrusegoose.com/229