How long before the earthquakes, tornados, and hurricanes start, which Pat Robertson and the like predicted? Or for that matter, how long before the rapture and armageddon?
Hurricane season is coming up, so probably pretty soon. Gotta love Post Hoc reasoning.
Theres a current heat wave here in the UK - "GODS WRATH ON THE BRITISH FOR ALLOWING SODOMITES TO MARRY!!"
Cool weather comes in "God has given relief to his believers"
Non-religious man catches Ebola when helping in africa - "GODS WRATH ON THEM FOR ALLOWING SODOMITES TO MARRY!!"
Christian woman catches ebola - "God works in mysterious ways"
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There was an earthquake in Michigan two days ago. I didn't feel it but several people in my office did. Apparently god now is sending earthquakes that only his followers can feel.
Quote from: Johan on July 02, 2015, 06:37:45 AM
There was an earthquake in Michigan two days ago. I didn't feel it but several people in my office did. Apparently god now is sending earthquakes that only his followers can feel.
Nah, it's really the butt plugs set to vibrate they shove in every morning before work.
Magical thinking is a common human trait. Particularly the magic of the free lunch. Most people don't visit witch doctors anymore, but they do listen to what economists are saying. I would sacrifice my cat to determine the will of the gods ... but my cat strangely objects to this.
I live in a region where many people feel that if an opposed X happens or if and opposed Y which did happen, isn't reversed ... then the rain won't come, the crops will wither, and the animals will not give birth or will die. This is a common belief in agricultural communities that still rely on water witching. I try to pretend I am a anthropologist studying an Amazonian tribe ;-)
I think it will be an Aleph before He does. :eek: :biggrin2:
I love little known facts ... for example, the letter A comes from Alpha, which comes from Alef. If you look carefully, this is a pictogram of an ox head turned upside down. When it was originally written in the Sinai desert by Semitic hard labor under the Egyptian lash ... nobody volunteers to mine copper and turquoise in the Sinai Desert ... the partially literate "capos" needed to make pictographic prayers to the Egyptian gods, including Hathor ... the cow goddess of childbirth (who is still worshipped at Dendera on the Nile, in secret, by pregnant mothers.
But there could be other origins ... for example in the Neolithic, at Catal Huyuk in Turkey, some of the first people to live in a city (we would compare it to a SW Pueblo village) worshipped the aurochs ... the primitive pre-domesticated bull. This is part of the worship on Crete at a later date, and how the Canaanite Princess ... Europa was kidnapped by the bull god for a little trist in early Greece (she is the ancestor of King Minos ... and thus of the minotaur thru Queen Pasiphae). Or this could equally be the symbol of the goat, of a satyr, or of Hellboy ;-) Do not quite ... Hell freezing over ... though it should, because Hell is the Norse cold place that bad people go to.
I'm already feeling yahweh's wrath. I forgot to plug my phone in last night and yahweh made it die, but someone somewhere prayed and when I plugged it back in it worked again! A MIRACLE! :pray: :biggrin:
How Long? I'd say after I'm done pissing on the bible :grin:
Quote from: dtq123 on July 03, 2015, 02:44:44 PM
How Long? I'd say after I'm done pissing on the bible :grin:
Thank the Lord for penicillin! :pray:
AllPurposeAtheist ... Actually the recharge of your cell phone battery is a miracle ... aka local reversal of the flow of entropy. All of life involves local reversal of the flow of entropy. But don't worry about thermodynamics being wrong .. this reversal is over compensated by the usual increase in entropy ... provided by Congress ;-)
Quote from: Ace101 on July 02, 2015, 02:05:09 AM
How long before the earthquakes, tornados, and hurricanes start, which Pat Robertson and the like predicted? Or for that matter, how long before the rapture and armageddon?
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Also free clothes for those left behind. The one's raptured are those right behind, because nobody likes a half-assed answer to their problems. Also why does G-d want a bunch of naked people for anyway? ;-))
Eew, I just thought, when Pat Robertson gets raptured, he'll be naked..
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Quote from: Munch on July 03, 2015, 04:18:56 PM
Eew, I just thought, when Pat Robertson gets raptured, he'll be naked..
So Clothes do go to heaven! Time to burn them robes!
Quote from: Ace101 on July 02, 2015, 02:05:09 AM
How long before the earthquakes, tornados, and hurricanes start, which Pat Robertson and the like predicted? Or for that matter, how long before the rapture and armageddon?
Funny how those hurricanes never hit San Francisco, Boston, Amsterdam, you know, the usual suspects.
In fact, most hurricanes seem to hit in and around the Bible Belt... wonder why
that's never considered a sign?
Quote from: Johan on July 02, 2015, 06:37:45 AM
There was an earthquake in Michigan two days ago. I didn't feel it but several people in my office did. Apparently god now is sending earthquakes that only his followers can feel.
This stands to reason. It's probably the start of The Rapture, in which case only the Righteous can detect the earth moving.
Quote from: trdsf on July 03, 2015, 04:54:35 PM
Funny how those hurricanes never hit San Francisco, Boston, Amsterdam, you know, the usual suspects.
In fact, most hurricanes seem to hit in and around the Bible Belt... wonder why that's never considered a sign?
oh because if god sends storms and earthquakes to destroy those heathen places, he is condemning them to hell, but if he sends them to the bible belt, its because he wants to bring his children up to heaven with him.
its kind of entertaining when you know exactly how Christians think, I feel like I should open a day care.
trdsf ... the folks down there ... ain't too good with geography, seeing as how pubic education is something they mis-pronounce and therefore like to avoid in error. Unfortunately Much's response after yours is far more accurate and less creative then mine.
Quote from: trdsf on July 03, 2015, 04:54:35 PM
Funny how those hurricanes never hit San Francisco, Boston, Amsterdam, you know, the usual suspects.
In fact, most hurricanes seem to hit in and around the Bible Belt... wonder why that's never considered a sign?
Maybe it's a sign that a lot of homophobic Christians are closet homos themselves
This land has been punished since 1492, when some idiot Christian stumbled across it.
Atheists are so silly
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Write a serious answer to a rhetorical question? Don't mind if I do!
Disclaimer: I am not a Christian, but I am very familiar with the Bible. For the sake of the argument, I will assume the Bible is true.
Actually, I'm not so sure the Bible is against gay marriage, or homosexuality in general. Some verses seem to give that impression, but there is definitely room for doubt. For instance, it is commonly assumed that the city of Sodom was destroyed for the homosexuality that existed within it. However, a careful examination into the context of the story doesn't support that. First of all, the only reason given for the city's destruction was that the people were generally evil. They were especially bad to foreigners, whom they would rape, not out of sexual interest, but to shame the foreigners and show their power over them. This may be the reason behind Leviticus' law against men sleeping with other men: it's connection to rape. Also, it is important to note that many Levitical laws are no longer practiced by Christians, because they believe that they are no longer valid today. One cannot give special emphasis to one law and ignore the others that came with it.
As for New Testament prohibitions against homosexuality, the verses commonly referred to by Conservative Christians are very vague and open to interpretation. The interpretations we see in English Bibles may be more of a reflection of the interpreter's bias than the intention of the original author.
In short, God may not even be against gay marriage anyway. After all, the Bible also tells us that God appoints governmental leaders (Rom 13:1), and we have no reason to think that America is the exception to the rule. So God appointed the leaders who approved gay marriage.
Bibble sez don't lie with a man as with a woman. Keyword: "lie". Not "fuck". So fucking is OK, blowjobs are OK, etc.; it's just "lying" that's forbidden. As for lesbians, the bibble is totally OK, because they don't lie with men in the first place.
Quote from: Munch on July 03, 2015, 04:18:56 PM
Eew, I just thought, when Pat Robertson gets raptured, he'll be naked..
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And he has to stay like that, even once he's inside the pearly gates....
Does that mean hell is heaven all along?
Quote from: butt.taimur on July 09, 2015, 12:15:33 AM
Atheists are so silly
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Nice name lol Too bad I had to give you the boot.