Stupid things religious people say

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I can't link to it, but I just watched a clip on Twitter of a Christian couple ordering a twister not to touch down near their home, "in the name of god".

And this, folks, is why some of these idiots can't be reasoned with or talked to.

Best to just sterilise them, and let them run free in a fenced off field somewhere, far from the rest of us.

I’m generally against eugenics, but this isn’t the worst idea…

Boru

[The Valkyrie]

I can't link to it, but I just watched a clip on Twitter of a Christian couple ordering a twister not to touch down near their home, "in the name of god".

And this, folks, is why some of these idiots can't be reasoned with or talked to.

Best to just sterilise them, and let them run free in a fenced off field somewhere, far from the rest of us.

I’m generally against eugenics, but this isn’t the worst idea…

Boru

I think we could make this work.

Once a year we free a few of them and let big-game hunters track them for $1 million a pop.

The money goes to the upkeep of the rest...

[zebo-the-fat]

I can't link to it, but I just watched a clip on Twitter of a Christian couple ordering a twister not to touch down near their home, "in the name of god".

And this, folks, is why some of these idiots can't be reasoned with or talked to.

Best to just sterilise them, and let them run free in a fenced off field somewhere, far from the rest of us.

So they asked god to drop the twister on someone else instead?
nice!

[h4ym4n]

Stupid things religious people say


“ I will prove to you that God exists”

[Fake Messiah]

[Fake Messiah]

You shouldn’t buy a piece of a saint. Catholic Church denounces online sale of Carlo Acutis relics

With the upcoming canonization of its first millennial saint, the Catholic Church has turned to police in Italy to investigate the online sale of some purported relics of Carlo Acutis, who already has been drawing hundreds of thousands of pilgrims to his shrine.

“It’s not just despicable, but it’s also a sin,” said the Rev. Enzo Fortunato. “Every kind of commerce over faith is a sin.”

An anonymous seller had put up for online auction some supposedly authenticated locks of Acutis’ hair that were fetching upward of 2,000 euros ($2,200 US), according to the Diocese of Assisi, before being taken down. Last month, Bishop Domenico Sorrentino asked authorities to confiscate the items and added that if fraudulent, the sale would constitute a “great offense to religious belief.”

Acutis’ body was exhumed during the more-than-decade-long canonization process and treated so it could be preserved for public showing, including by removing certain organs. His face, which looks as if he were asleep, was reconstructed with a silicone mask, Sorrentino said.

Acutis’ heart has been preserved at a dedicated altar in another Assisi church; it will be taken to Rome for the canonization Mass.

There are different “classes” of relics — the most important are major body parts, such as the heart. Sorrentino gave Acutis’ pericardium — the membrane enclosing the heart — to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in 2022 for the duration of its multi-year Eucharistic Revival.

The bishop in charge of the saint’s body works with requests from other bishops around the world to give or lend relics — always for free — to be exhibited for veneration at parishes and other churches.

https://apnews.com/article/carlo-acutis-...e61dd76368


So the lesson is that private people are not allowed to make money on dead people, but the Church is by taking donations from people visiting his shrine and when they sell souvenirs of that corpse because lending relics "always for free" doesn't exclude donations which are encouraged. Officially, Church never charges for anything, and yet they are rich as fuck with numerous palaces, villas, jewelry, lobbying money, and other luxury.

[Fake Messiah]

Christians are celebrating the end of Hooters restaurants. Finally, that place where men sinfully looked at women will perish.

Also it seems that Christians can barely differentiate these waitresses from whores.

Hooters and the Future of the Church

Those of us who are traditionalist Christians have long said that the Hooters restaurant chain is morally bankrupt, but the time has come for it to be financially bankrupt too. Before we “family values” types take a victory lap, though, we should recognize that the chain—known for its scantily clad female servers and their wink and nod to male sexual appetites—is in trouble not because it’s too edgy but because it is not edgy enough. And that ought to tell us something about the future of American culture and the future of the church.

Hooters restaurant in my hometown of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, is an example of the chain’s typical business model “to sell just enough sex to be palatable to people like my Southern Baptist neighbors.”

If Hooters is indeed not long for this world, we should be glad. Hooters was built on the willingness of an abundance of men to ignore the fact that the women working there are human beings made in the image of God, not meat for inspection and consumption.

But we should take no solace in how these places are dying. The chain is not closing because a superior view of marriage and family and sexuality won the argument. In a real sense, Hooters is gone because the argument was so decisively lost.

Cultural engagement built on winking, aren’t-we-naughty transgression always requires escalation. If you live by carnality, you will die by carnality.

The Hooters parking lot down the road might be emptier than it used to be. But will your church’s lot be fuller? What if we offered a new picture to young women who’ve been told that their worth is measured in their sexual attractiveness and sexual availability?

https://www.christianitytoday.com/2025/0...ell-moore/

"What if we offered a new picture to young women who’ve been told that their worth is measured in their sexual attractiveness and sexual availability?" - women have already been offered a picture where their worth is not just measured in their sexual attractiveness but it was not in the church. Church is incapable of showing a picture of a woman who is not a human incubator and thus a sex slave.

[Sheldon]

"Hooters was built on the willingness of an abundance of men to ignore the fact that the women working there are human beings made in the image of God, not meat for inspection and consumption."

Hard to imagine a more obvious false dichotomy. One can object to the objectifying of women, without any recourse to creation myths in archaic superstitions.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

^Two things:

1.Yes, Hooters has filed for bankruptcy, but it’s the one where you keep operating while restructuring your debt. The chain is not going away, but even if it was,

2. Do these nimrods not get that there are plenty of other places where men can go to look at women, not to mention plenty of places where women are treated far, FAR worse than at Hooters.

Wanna take a stand against women being valued for their ‘sexual attractiveness and sexual availability’? Maybe devote your energies to doing something about the worldwide trade in sexual slavery. FFS.

Boru

[Fireball]

Pshaww, slavery is in the bible. Next complaint.