(September 6, 2013 at 11:03 pm)popeyespappy Wrote: Aint got shit on hillbilly southern Baptists. Several years ago my great uncle had a difference of opinion with the new preacher at the little church he had been attending for most of his 80ish years over the quality of the sermons. Otis stopped attending Sunday service. his beliefs didn't change. He just stopped going to church. When he died a few years later the same preacher presided over the services at the funeral. He basically told the widow, children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and couple of dozen other people in attendance that Otis was burning in hell.
That's petty. At least the priest at my friend's funeral could say that his assholishness was backed up by Catholic doctrine.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
