Stupid things religious people say

[no one]

What about all those blues guitarists who sold their souls to the devil?

Where's the outrage for John Lee Hooker?

[arewethereyet]

What about all those blues guitarists who sold their souls to the devil?

Where's the outrage for John Lee Hooker?

What about Robert Johnson?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

^Given the shabby condition of my soul, all I’d get for it would be a chorus of Three Blind Mice, off key and out of tune.

Boru

[Ferrocyanide]

I was reading the page on Boko Haram

KEYWORDS, KEYSENTENCES:
1. Western education is forbidden
2. opposition not only to Western education, but to the theory of evolution
3. opposition to teaching about a spherical Earth
4. opposition to teaching about the hydrological cycle: rain doesn't come from "evaporation caused by the sun". It is created and sent down directly by God.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boko_Haram

The name Boko Haram is usually translated as "Western education is forbidden". "Haram" is from the Arabic = Forbidden.
and the Hausa word boko (the first vowel is long, the second pronounced in a low tone), meaning "fake",[50][51] which is used to refer to secular Western education.[52] In a 2009 statement they denounced that translation as the work of the "infidel media", claiming the true translation is "Western Civilization is forbidden", and that they are not "opposed to formal education coming from the West" but "believe in the supremacy of Islamic culture (not education)".

The founder of Boko Haram, Muhammad Yusuf, was reportedly inspired by the controversial Islamic preacher Mohammed Marwa (Maitatsine), who condemned the reading of any books other than the Quran.[51][69][70][71] Yusuf, himself, in one 2009 interview, expressed his opposition not only to Western education, but to the theory of evolution, a spherical (not flat) Earth, and to the idea that rain comes from "evaporation caused by the sun" rather than being created and sent down directly by God.[72]

[zebo-the-fat]

Willful ignorance!

[Mister Agenda]

I always thought 'boko' was a borrow word for books, especially Western works.

[brewer]

I always thought 'boko' was a borrow word for books, especially Western works.

My mind always hears Koko.

[Silver]

I always thought 'boko' was a borrow word for books, especially Western works.

My mind always hears Koko.

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[brewer]

My mind always hears Koko.

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[Fake Messiah]

Vatican preparing 'guidelines' for 'apparitions', 'other supernatural phenomena'

The Vatican is preparing to release a document giving guidance on how to discern supernatural phenomena.

The Holy See Press Office announced the upcoming document will be published May 17 with a live-streamed press conference featuring Prefect for the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández.

Fernández has previously said the dicastery is "in the process of finalizing a new text with clear guidelines and norms for the discernment of apparitions and other phenomena," according to the National Catholic Register.

An "apparition" refers to an instance in which a divine entity — such as a saint, the Virgin Mary, or Christ himself — makes itself known to a person on Earth. The concept is a recurring theme in the Bible and most Christian denominations affirm the belief that such brushes with the supernatural can still occur today in various capacities especially on toasted bread slices.

https://www.foxnews.com/faith-values/vat...-phenomena