"Laughing At Religion" Meme Thread

[polymath257]

Here is a vintage meme from 1996:



Can you imagine that people were fighting creationists back in the 1990s?

I started in the 1980's. There were a lot of laws trying to outlaw evolution at that time.

Later, they switched to 'Intelligent Design', literally rewriting their books to avoid the Court decisions. That didn't work for them.

Don't forget the Scopes trial was in 1925.

And the Huxley-Wilberforce debate was in 1860.

[Fake Messiah]

Hey, I remember it. That remark was just a joke.

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[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Boru

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Boru

[Fake Messiah]

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

Boru

When I was 12, myself and a friend at school concluded that Jesus should have been cremated. We reasoned that then the resurrection would have been far more impressive and impossible to dispute.  For some strange reason our teacher wasn't as keen as we on the hypothetical .

That particular teacher was a moron . It was he I once asked some theological question he couldn't answer. . The mind of a 12 year old is about all one needs to begin seriously questioning one's own personal superstitions. He could have said "I don't know but I'll find out". What  he actually said was "Oh, that's a mystery of faith, we just believe "

Better than dad, "Shut up" he would explain. (with apologies to Ring Lardner)

[Fake Messiah]

[A. Secular Human]

Boru

Once I figured out the reference (took me a second) I exclaimed "JESUS CHRIST that's funny!"

I gotta stop doing that.

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

Boru

Once I figured out the reference (took me a second) I exclaimed "JESUS CHRIST that's funny!"

I gotta stop doing that.

 Yair, might give people the wrong idea.

I've managed to pretty much replace it with "fuck".

My Catholic school is to blame. When I was about 13, our idiot class teacher told us we were bot to say Gee, golly, Gosh or gee wizz.   

Are you ready for this?

Golly and gosh = god Gee and gee wizz=Jesus . So my mates and I decided we'd say' fuck' instead. However we decided probably nota good idea to say 'fuck' in front of adults.

Were you two faced like me and my mates?  We each had two distinct personalities. One with each other and a very different one around adults.

[A. Secular Human]

Once I figured out the reference (took me a second) I exclaimed "JESUS CHRIST that's funny!"

I gotta stop doing that.

 Yair, might give people the wrong idea.

I've managed to pretty much replace it with "fuck".

My Catholic school is to blame. When I was about 13, our idiot class teacher told us we were bot to say Gee, golly, Gosh or gee wizz.   

Are you ready for this?

Golly and gosh = god Gee and gee wizz=Jesus . So my mates and I decided we'd say' fuck' instead. However we decided probably nota good idea to say 'fuck' in front of adults.

Were you two faced like me and my mates?  We each had two distinct personalities. One with each other and a very different one around adults.

Not so much with the different personalities...until I got to college.

When I was in my third and fourth year of engineering school, I earned spending money by selling building materials at a K-Mart.  Nothing against the folks that work at K-Mart, but I just didn't have a lot in common with most of them.  I got along with everybody famously, it was actually fun, kept me in shape, and I learned a *lot* about construction.  It was also a great resource for "good" weed and "bad" women, but that's a different story.

I used saying "Hello!" to the greeter (upon K-Mart entry), as my trigger to shut off my brain, but I still got hounded weekly by the assistant managers and store manager to enter "The Program", which was the management trainee program for K-Mart.  They said I was "a shoe-in" to eventually become a District Manager, which in their eyes was "making it big".

My response was to politely giggle, and thank them.