(August 22, 2014 at 9:10 am)Drich Wrote: Christianity changed because the warlord state was not biblically supported.

Are you able to say this because of some willful ignorance or are you really this uneducated?

(August 22, 2014 at 9:39 am)ManMachine Wrote: Well, I know it's eaten a lot in the North and sometimes down in the South of the UK but I've never been tempted to eat black pudding, which is a type of blood sausage made with pigs blood and fat.

You are insane, man. Black pudding is delicious! Especially lightly grilled or fried. You don't know you've lived until you've tried it!

Also: anyone else wondering what "wft" means?

(August 22, 2014 at 9:39 am)ManMachine Wrote:

(August 22, 2014 at 9:33 am)FatAndFaithless Wrote: Anything with sausage has to be good, right?

Well, I know it's eaten a lot in the North and sometimes down in the South of the UK but I've never been tempted to eat black pudding, which is a type of blood sausage made with pigs blood and fat.



MM

You're making me hungry. I could just eat a nice fry up with black pudding and bubble and squeak.

Don't forget the grey farters.

You guys are weird.

(August 21, 2014 at 10:27 pm)Drich Wrote: Where is the out rage, where is the shock? Where is the call to arms against the fanatics? Or does that only apply to Christianity, and it's desire to keep marriage between one man and one woman?

Ah yes, the periodic Christian whining about "why are you guys just picking on us?"

Because you guys are the biggest threat in our local area. We also have things to say about Islam and Scientology but you guys are the ones who are in the local news all the time.

Do you seriously think the new "militant atheism" came out of nowhere or for no reason? It was a direct reaction to the evangelicals flexing their political muscle during the W Bush administration. It's a simple Newtonian principle at work here. The more fundamentalists act like bullies, the more atheists will be vocal against their sponsoring religion.





The Evil Christian Empire does more than just try to stop people with similar body parts from getting married or otherwise persecute people inclined to love those with similar body parts. The Freethinker Rebel Alliance has many more grievances than that.

You interfere with the teaching of science in the classrooms. You try to stop scientific research because of your metaphysical objections (stem cells). You try to use our tax dollars and public facilities to promote your religion whenever you can get away with it. You subjugate women and meddle in their life choices because of your faith-based beliefs that zygotes and embryos have souls. You terrorize children with fictional places like Hell. You insult us and say we can be "patriots" (HW Bush). And your past is more than a little scary. While it is true that burnings at the stake are a thing of the past (which was done by Protestants and Catholics alike), it is not because Christianity has changed as much as it has been restrained by modernity and civilization.

If you would stop doing all these things and keep your religion to yourselves, we could all get along.

Yes, Islama-the-Hutt is also scary. In some ways, Islam is Christianity on steroids. Or perhaps just Christianity without the restraints of civilization.

(August 22, 2014 at 9:39 am)ManMachine Wrote:

(August 22, 2014 at 9:33 am)FatAndFaithless Wrote: Anything with sausage has to be good, right?

Well, I know it's eaten a lot in the North and sometimes down in the South of the UK but I've never been tempted to eat black pudding, which is a type of blood sausage made with pigs blood and fat.



MM

Dammit, that's NSFW! You should spoiler it!

(August 22, 2014 at 9:57 am)Stimbo Wrote:

(August 22, 2014 at 9:39 am)ManMachine Wrote: Well, I know it's eaten a lot in the North and sometimes down in the South of the UK but I've never been tempted to eat black pudding, which is a type of blood sausage made with pigs blood and fat.

You are insane, man. Black pudding is delicious! Especially lightly grilled or fried. You don't know you've lived until you've tried it!

Also: anyone else wondering what "wft" means?

black pudding... the names you brits come up to try to get people to eat things...

In Portugal, we call that by it's proper description, black chouriço, or even blood chouriço (depending on who you ask). So much more appropriate and ... remarkably... people still eat it!
Then again, we have a special stew which is chicken boiled in its own blood with rice(they call it Arroz de cabidela)... I'm not very fond of it, but sometimes I just can't avoid it. My biggest problem with it, to be honest, is that stupid cooks just chop the bird's bones, cracking them and mixing those tiny cracks in with the rice, making it impossible to visually distinguish bone from rice, until your teeth sink into a piece of bone, or you dig a splinter of bone into your gum. Anything where poultry is mixed in with rice deserves a lot of care in preparation and most cooks just don't care.
[rant over]

Back On topic, could this be yet another public scare tactic to impose even more public security measures which will limit everyone's freedom? yes, I'm afraid it can... will it succeed? Yes, I'm afraid it will.
It was just one more nail in the coffin of my conviction never to go to any muslim-majority country, no matter what is offered as a reward.

And now the million dollar opinion: I'd probably accept the nuclear bombing of these people, as a way to eradicate this cancer once and for all. Inevitably, many innocents would die, but it would show future wannabe religious extremists that the powers that be will not stand by idly while they impose their backwards and stupid religion and ideologies on the world.

Would that sprout other similar cancers? I don't know... maybe...

(August 22, 2014 at 10:04 am)FatAndFaithless Wrote: You guys are weird.

I take it you wont be coming round my house for some toad in the hole then?

(August 22, 2014 at 10:15 am)jesus_wept Wrote:

(August 22, 2014 at 10:04 am)FatAndFaithless Wrote: You guys are weird.

I take it you wont be coming round my house for some toad in the hole then?

Is that why Jesus wept?