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Merry Xmas, Assholes
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 (December 22, 2011 at 3:24 pm)Rhythm Wrote: As far as why there had to be a journey. There were preexisting narratives that had to be fulfilled or otherwise worked into the new narrative. Cue the contortions. Actually, there were wrong interpretations of pre-existing narratives not that being totally fucked up ever even slows xtians down.  (December 22, 2011 at 3:21 pm)TheDarkestOfAngels Wrote: Is it still atheism if I worship Santa as my lord and savior? (I AM CHAMPION CHRISTMAS!) Have you watched the abridged Lord Slug movie? That mentions Christmas again 
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 RE: Merry Xmas, Assholes
December 24, 2011 at 9:30 pm
(This post was last modified: December 24, 2011 at 9:30 pm by Cyberman.)
Interesting how none of our resident theists have showed up here yet. A cynical person might be moved to say that they haven't been told what they should think about all this.
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.'
 RE: Merry Xmas, Assholes
December 24, 2011 at 10:01 pm
(This post was last modified: December 24, 2011 at 10:01 pm by TheDarkestOfAngels.)
(December 22, 2011 at 7:03 pm)frankiej Wrote: Have you watched the abridged Lord Slug movie? That mentions Christmas againYes I have and yes it does. It taught me the following and all the bad boys and girls of the world must understand: If you don't believe in christmas, the CHAMPION CHRISTMAS will get you. ![[Image: false.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=homepage.mac.com%2Fcheethorne%2FDBZ%2Fimages%2Ffalse.jpg)
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925 Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan 
Neither Mark not Paul, nor any of the other writers of the New Testament letters, know of Jesus's birth to a virgin; in fact, they show no awareness of his nativity at all.
Possibly because the OT does not specifically mention a virgin,but is rather vague. Quote:Isaiah 7:14 says that a virgin will bear a son. The problem is dealing with the Hebrew word for virgin, which is "almah." According to the Strong's Concordance it means, "virgin, young woman 1a) of marriageable age 1b) maid or newly married." Therefore, the word "almah" does not always mean virgin. The word "occurs elsewhere in the Old Testament only in Genesis 24:43 (”maiden“); Exodus 2:8 (”girl“); Psalm 68:25 (”maidens“); Proverbs 30:19 (”maiden“); Song of Songs 1:3 (”maidens“); 6:8 (”virgins“)."1 Additionally, there is a Hebrew word for virgin: bethulah. If Isaiah 7:14 was meant to mean virgin instead of young maiden, then why wasn't the word used here? http://carm.org/isaiah-7-14-virgin The Christian claims that Jesus fulfilled prophecy are silyl to the point of desperation. 
Have been checking out the whole 'Mithras" legend/myth and found some interesting coincidences....
Mithras and the Christian rituals. http://www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/panth...thras.html http://www.near-death.com/experiences/origen048.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithraic_mysteries http://www.edwardjayne.com/christology/mithra.html http://www.jesusneverexisted.com/Mithraism.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithra http://www.truthbeknown.com/mithra.htm http://www.well.com/~davidu/mithras.html http://www.pantheon.org/articles/m/mithra.html http://www.farvardyn.com/mithras.php http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10402a.htm http://jdstone.org/cr/files/mithraschristianity.html Is it any wonder that today's xtians are so fucked up and at war with today's muslims (referring to the fundamentalists of both religions of course) "The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5
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