Stupid things religious people say

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

So that's why churches smell like stale farts.

Older Christians ‘hold it in’ during church services as new poll exposes surprising toilet habits

On World Toilet Day a new poll by the Christian Charity Tearfund has exposed church goer’s toilet habits when in a service.

More than half of older Christians chose to “hold it in” during church services rather than leave for the loo, which has revealed a surprising generational divide in the pews.

Survey showed that 56 per cent of older Christians preferred to endure discomfort, while younger worshippers were far more likely to slip out mid-sermon, with 29 per cent saying they would happily miss part of the service.

https://premierchristian.news/en/news/ar...h-services

We went to a church wedding not long ago and the missus and I slipped out for a tinkle at different times. We both got the stink eye on the way to and from the bog.

I don't know if any of you guys have ever been to a traditional Catholic wedding Mass, but they run about three hours long. By the second hour of sit-stand-kneel, you're not only bursting for a pee, but you're also looking at the guy on the Cross and thinking HE'S the lucky one.

Boru

[Fake Messiah]

So God is using doctors hands to heal sick people. One really wonders why God is wasting his time on the 3rd party and not going directly to the sick person. Or why send diseases or accidents in the first place.

I’m a doctor, and I believe in medical miracles

When they do occur, medical miracles may tend to be gradual, an accumulation of positive events or coincidences over time. They frequently involve great doctoring (doctors and other healers have the “hands of God”) and the most advanced technology possible. Above all, they are not predictable.

Praying doesn’t always deliver the desired result, but that doesn’t disqualify it as a tool for healing. Sometimes, it is the combination of prayer with great doctoring that leads to an unexpected, miraculous recovery.

Back in 2018, Rep. Steve Scalise was famously shot on a ball field. The miracle here, as I describe in my new book, “The Miracles Among Us,” involved the talented director of interventional radiologist at MedStar, Arshad Khan, working together with the head of trauma, Jack Sava, to embolize and then repair the arteries piece by piece as Scalise received more than 50 units of transfused blood. Scalise’s fortitude and daily prayers afterward helped provide the fuel for his recovery.

Similarly, when Shane Dennehy dove off the back of a boat and was then chewed up by the propeller blade when he swam back to the side, a miracle occurred: The propeller exposed both the sciatic nerve and the femoral artery but stopped just short of severing them both, which would have rendered the leg unusable. The orthopedist, David Wellman, and the chief of plastic surgery told me that they were simply adding to the original miracle, that the art of great surgery augmented it. They were the hands of God. They performed months of revisions, repairs, implants, and wound healing, overcoming infectious setbacks, until Shane was able to walk out of the hospital and eventually return to water sports.

I believe in the existence of “a miracle lane,” where a compilation of seeming coincidences and positive medical turns saves a life unexpectedly. How else do you explain my patient Dick, who has overcome four cancers, severe heart disease requiring bypass, an occult bleed, and a neuromuscular disorder, living into his mid-80s despite continuing to smoke with his sense of humor intact?

A doctor who believes in miracles is one who doesn’t shut the door on the seemingly impossible too soon, but continues to fight with all their tools and skills for the expected as well as the unexpected cure.

https://www.statnews.com/2025/11/18/medi...ors-faith/

So he wrote a book. That explains it. You have to work your way to the Amazon best selling list.

But on a serious note, that last part is rather disturbing. I'm talking about a doctor not giving up on miracles till the end even in the impossible situations. Doctors shouldn't peddle lottery to patients. If someone has an incurable disease, it's better not to give him false hope, so that he can make peace with death and to say goodbye to the family.

[Fake Messiah]

Watch God as he is speaking directly through prophetess Kat Kerr: "No one will be able to impeach Trump. I have appointed him, anointed him. He is my president for America and will be so until I am finished with his assignment!"

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Looks like Kat Kerr doesn't really know what an 'impeachment' is. Guy's been impeached twice already.

Boru

[Fake Messiah]

riiight.

They also forgot to put the quotes around the word archeologists.

Archaeologists Identify the Site Where Jesus Exorcised the Legion of Demons and the Herd of Pigs

(ZENIT News / Kursi, 11.17.2025).- Dr Scott Stripling, director of excavations for the Association for Biblical Research, reported on the combination of textual clues, geography and ruins in the city of Kursi, Israel, where the exorcism of the Legion of demons and the subsequent infestation of pigs in Gadara, described in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke, most likely took place.

The town of Kursi is located on the eastern shore of the Sea of ​​Galilee. Dr Stripling used information from a 1985 excavation that documented dozens of ancient ports along the Sea of ​​Galilee, including Kursi. This port had enormous stone breakwaters and a large fishpond. «From the port, every biblical detail fits within a 200-meter radius,» the archaeologist commented.

The research identified three geographical clues present in the three Gospels: a steep cliff near the water, a nearby cemetery, and Jesus’ arrival by boat from the western shore. These three elements converge at Kursi, which has a cliff less than 50 meters from the shore, a hill with ancient Jewish tombs, and the discovery of a Roman-era port partially submerged in the lake.

Beyond the archaeologist’s interpretation of the biblical passage, Christian tradition already identified Kursi as the site of the miracle, reflected in the ruins of a 5th-century Byzantine Basilica, known as the «Chapel of the Miracle,» on the hill overlooking the port. Some scholars see the representation of pigs in the remains of its mosaic.

https://zenit.org/2025/11/17/archaeologi...d-of-pigs/

So they didn't find bones from 2,000 pigs, but just followed the legend.

The other thing with this gospel story is that it was mostly inspired by a story from the Homer's Odyssey, like when the sorceress Circe turned Odysseus's soldiers into swine.

[Fake Messiah]

People are using AI to talk to God

In India and around the world, worshippers are turning to purpose-built AI for religious worship and spiritual guidance. What happens when the machines become our new spiritual middlemen?

Faced with the questions and challenges of modern life, Vijay Meel, a 25-year-old student who lives in Rajasthan, India, turns to God. In the past he's consulted spiritual leaders. More recently, he asked GitaGPT.

GitaGPT is an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot trained on the Bhagavad Gita, the holy book of 700 verses of dialogue with the Hindu god Krishna. GitaGPT looks like any text conversation you'd have with a friend – except the AI tells you you're texting with a god.

"When I couldn't clear my banking exams, I was dejected," Meel says. But after stumbling on GitaGPT, he typed in details about his inner crisis and asked for the AI's advice. "Focus on your actions and let go of the worry for its fruit," GitaGPT said. This, along with other guidance, left Meel feeling inspired.

As AI touches every aspect of the human experience, India may offer of a glimpse of what it will mean to interact with the divine through our newly talkative machines.

The past few years have seen many religious experiments with AI. In 2023, an AI app called Text With Jesus allows chat with AI manifestations of Jesus and other biblical figures.

The same year, a QuranGPT app designed to answer questions and provide guidance based on the Muslim holy text got so much traffic it reportedly crashed within a day of its launch. AI has even been the basis for entire religions, such as the Way of the Future church, a group started by former Google engineer Anthony Levandowski, which hopes to develop and promote the realisation of a god "based on artificial intelligence".

For centuries, religious communities have been anchored to priests, scholars and other spiritual leaders, says the reverend Lyndon Drake, a research fellow at the University of Oxford who studies theological ethics and artificial intelligence. But "AI chatbots might indeed challenge the status of religious leaders", Drake says.

Religious chatbots might be trained on scripture and dutifully quote verses, but they share the same bizarre hallucinations and shortcomings of other AIs. In one instance, GitaGPT claimed, in the voice of Krishna, that "killing in order to protect dharma is justified".

In 2024, an evangelist group called Catholic Answers rushed to take its chatbot priest Father Justin offline after the AI reportedly told users it was a real priest that could perform sacraments and said it would be fine to baptise a child in the soft drink Gatorade.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251...alk-to-god

[zebo-the-fat]

Is this a modern version of the prayer wheel?