(June 10, 2012 at 2:27 am)Minimalist Wrote: The problem with Mark 16 9-20 is that it was tacked on centuries later because the church was embarrassed that "Mark" did not have a proper orthodox ending to his fairy tale. So they wrote him one. All but the stupidest fundies admit this and the stupidest fundies are the ones who play with fucking snakes.
Serves them right.
Ah, that would explain why this sort of thing isn't more widely practised. It does have that 'ten to five on a Friday afternoon' feel about it, or perhaps something that seemed like a good idea at the christmas piss-up:
"Oh no, mate, you can't put that down, thass - thass jus' a lawsuit waitin' to 'appen, that is!"
"Nah, they'll know iss jus' a joke, they won't be that stupid!"
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.'
