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RE: Isn't it funny...
August 13, 2017 at 5:59 pm
(August 13, 2017 at 5:28 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: (August 13, 2017 at 5:19 pm)LastPoet Wrote: Huh yeah. Going into a battle, i best get my hands on a machine gun. Swords, Axes, pitchforks, fists and nails are also useful. But bibles? Dunno. It has some weight and if you hit someone in the head with one, might cause damage.
Wait a minute. What about making machine guns shooting bibles? Shit they be claiming to die by the word of their god.
Well, it would be handy for the soldiers. Especially if it comes in two ply...
In an emergency IANMTU, I have used a bible to wipe my ass. Being the paper not as absorbent as regular TP, I had to use most of mathews gospel to get a clean bunghole.
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RE: Isn't it funny...
August 13, 2017 at 6:10 pm
(August 13, 2017 at 5:28 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: (August 13, 2017 at 5:19 pm)LastPoet Wrote: Huh yeah. Going into a battle, i best get my hands on a machine gun. Swords, Axes, pitchforks, fists and nails are also useful. But bibles? Dunno. It has some weight and if you hit someone in the head with one, might cause damage.
Wait a minute. What about making machine guns shooting bibles? Shit they be claiming to die by the word of their god.
Well, it would be handy for the soldiers. Especially if it comes in two ply...
The Bibles that many soldiers carried were small "pocket bibles" that slipped into their breast pocket, google "bible bullet" and you'll see pics of bullets embedded in bibles which stopped a bullet that would have killed the soldier.. 
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RE: Isn't it funny...
August 13, 2017 at 6:12 pm
(August 13, 2017 at 5:02 pm)Dropship Wrote: Well there's an old saying- "There are no atheists in foxholes"..
Tell it to the Marines. In fact, tell it to all these guys:
Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers
In Memory Of Atheists In Foxholes
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Isn't it funny...
August 13, 2017 at 6:16 pm
(August 13, 2017 at 5:19 pm)Dropship Wrote: Heck, he was almost as big as Elvis and the similarities are uncanny!-
He wasn't as big as The Beatles. It's on record.
Or by "as big as Elvis", did you mean mass? Because that dude ended up huuuge.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Isn't it funny...
August 13, 2017 at 6:21 pm
(August 13, 2017 at 5:33 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: (August 13, 2017 at 5:31 pm)Dropship Wrote: Other faiths might have cause to krap themselves, but no true Christian fears death, CHRISTIANS DIE LAUGHING..
Not from my experience.
But then, no True Scotsman dies without his kilt!
Wait...
There's an app for that...
![[Image: LogicSuppliesScotOrNot-1.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=i160.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Ft187%2FSteambum%2FLogicSuppliesScotOrNot-1.jpg)
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Isn't it funny...
August 13, 2017 at 6:26 pm
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(August 13, 2017 at 6:12 pm)Cyberman Wrote: (August 13, 2017 at 5:02 pm)Dropship Wrote: Well there's an old saying- "There are no atheists in foxholes"..
Tell it to the Marines. In fact, tell it to all these guys:
Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers
In Memory Of Atheists In Foxholes
Yes there are all sorts of people in foxholes and in the military, atheist or otherwise..
Chaplain and US troops after capturing Baghdad Intnl Airport, 2003-
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RE: Isn't it funny...
August 13, 2017 at 6:27 pm
I've come terribly close to dying a few times in my life. I never cried out to God, even when I was a believer.
The thought just never occurred to me.
I guess I was too busy trying to figure out how not to die.
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RE: Isn't it funny...
August 13, 2017 at 6:34 pm
(August 13, 2017 at 6:21 pm)Cyberman Wrote: (August 13, 2017 at 5:33 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Not from my experience.
But then, no True Scotsman dies without his kilt!
Wait...
There's an app for that...
like the reference to dear old nephie
Seek strength, not to be greater than my brother, but to fight my greatest enemy -- myself.
Inuit Proverb
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RE: Isn't it funny...
August 13, 2017 at 6:38 pm
(August 13, 2017 at 6:10 pm)Dropship Wrote: (August 13, 2017 at 5:28 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Well, it would be handy for the soldiers. Especially if it comes in two ply...
The Bibles that many soldiers carried were small "pocket bibles" that slipped into their breast pocket, google "bible bullet" and you'll see pics of bullets embedded in bibles which stopped a bullet that would have killed the soldier..
There likely are a number of examples of this happening.
The same would be true for any thick book carried in the same location.
But believers love to claim such things happening with a bible as a "miracle" but the same thing happening with other books mere coincidence.
The same way they tend to ignore the probably instances of the bullet going right through the bible and killing the soldier.
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"
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RE: Isn't it funny...
August 13, 2017 at 6:48 pm
(August 13, 2017 at 6:38 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: (August 13, 2017 at 6:10 pm)Dropship Wrote: The Bibles that many soldiers carried were small "pocket bibles" that slipped into their breast pocket, google "bible bullet" and you'll see pics of bullets embedded in bibles which stopped a bullet that would have killed the soldier..
But believers love to claim such things happening with a bible as a "miracle"..
Some hardcore fundies might claim that, but most enlightened christians see nothing miraculous in it and know a copy of "Lady Chatterley's Lover" or whatever would have the same bullet-stopping power..
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