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RE: An amoral sermon
November 13, 2016 at 12:51 pm
(November 13, 2016 at 11:58 am)Alex K Wrote: (November 13, 2016 at 11:37 am)ukatheist Wrote: My niece, a christer, got married last year. The vicar did a speech on compromise in marriage, but his version of compromise was that he made his wife give up playing sports on saturday, as he worked on a sunday in church and otherwise they wouldn't spend much time together. Reminded me why I don't go to church. Well that, and the not believing in gods.
Compromise, the word doesn't mean what you think it means, mr. preacherman
Ha. "Compromise" from the mouth of any preacher/priest/imam/witch doctor = "my way or the highway". Ha. (Of course, I have met non-clergy who act the same way. It just is more pronounced from someone whose "calling" is "telling people what to do and how to behave and how to (not) think".
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RE: An amoral sermon
November 13, 2016 at 1:05 pm
(November 13, 2016 at 12:51 pm)drfuzzy Wrote: Ha. "Compromise" from the mouth of any preacher/priest/imam/witch doctor = "my way or the highway".
As always I dispute the word "any". As I mentioned in the fight Trump thread. Don't mistake the religious you see in America for being the general standard. There's no broad brush to apply.
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RE: An amoral sermon
November 13, 2016 at 1:12 pm
Sounds legit to me OP, that's always been gods MO. Take from the other, and bestow the spoils on his chosen people.
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RE: An amoral sermon
November 13, 2016 at 1:59 pm
What else would you expect from a priest? A massive rationalization for committing one of their own sins, god did it, so it's OK!
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RE: An amoral sermon
November 15, 2016 at 5:08 pm
(November 12, 2016 at 9:01 pm)drfuzzy Wrote: As many of you know, I still play the pipe organ for Mass occasionally. I gave over most of my duties to another (woo-hoo!) but the choir director BEGGED me to stay. I like those guys. However, the sermons . . . oh some of them are so idiotic that I just have to come home and share them with you guys.
So this afternoon, the priest was telling a personal story. He was in France (doesn't speak French) and low on Euros. But he was a good guy, went to Mass, and put 2 Euros in the basket. Then he stopped by a store, made a purchase, and the store clerk gave him too much change. He couldn't speak French. So he took this as a sign from god that he should trust and not worry. God had taken care of him.
Now, I was watching the choir from the organ bench. I was quite certain that the majority of the people there, if given too much change in a foreign country, would have taken some steps to return the money. Pantomime, lay the cash out on the counter, find someone who spoke English, find someone to write a note for you and come back later. But no, this priest just assumed that stiffing the salesman meant that god was giving him money. And then he brags about it to a church full of sheeple - who have their brains so turned OFF that they are smiling and nodding at his story. It was pathetic. Just pathetic.
Thanks for listening!
Fuzz
can you find out what store it was.. Name/address?
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RE: An amoral sermon
November 15, 2016 at 5:19 pm
(This post was last modified: November 15, 2016 at 5:21 pm by Longhorn.)
(November 12, 2016 at 10:13 pm)drfuzzy Wrote: (November 12, 2016 at 9:08 pm)chimp3 Wrote: I always knew the organist was a spy!
Yep. Sitting up there on the organ bench, taking notes on the religulousness to share with atheists online. Can't trust the organist.
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