Whether or not Colonel Ingersoll (my favourite quotable nonbeliever) was right in this assessment, some of the faithful do seem determined to exhibit their total lack of even the most basic of human empathy as something of which to be proud. Exhibit A - "JOKES AND HUMOR AT THE EXPENSE OF THE BIBLE AND THE GODHEAD" by Pastor Steve Van Nattan:
Apparently, the word "amuse" is derived from the Latin "A Muse" and means "against thinking". Silly etymologists, spreading the lie that the word is actually "late 15c., "to divert the attention, beguile, delude," from Middle French amuser "divert, cause to muse," from a "at, to" (but here probably a causal prefix) + muser "ponder, stare fixedly" (see muse (v.)). Sense of "divert from serious business, tickle the fancy of" is recorded from 1630s, but through 18c. the primary meaning was "deceive, cheat" by first occupying the attention." Have they never heard of the Fundy Word Redefinition Project?
So, if you're a xtian and you have ever told a joke, even a one-liner, about anything to do with your magic book, you are a blessing to Satan and can expect to be part of your god's vomit. Doesn't that make you feel good about yourself!
I'll leave the last word to Pastor Joke:
No, because that was shit.
Quote:I don't understand it, but I have been receiving piles of trashy jokes about Jesus, Peter, heaven, and all sorts of perversions of the Bible and its teachings. I am also convinced this is the result of the lightweight approach to holiness we now find in the Charismatic movement and some Fundamentalists. Holy laughter and other manifestations have bred followers who think joking about the Godhead and the Word of God is OK. Their pastors lead them in this. One noted evangelist from South Africa, Rodney Howard Brown, makes cheap jokes about all things Christian in his performances. Thus the saints feel free to make foolishness of the things of God and His Church.
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Some folks think that a big loud jesting mouth is the mark of a great person. This kind of fool is a big pain in the posterior to the Lord's Church. They are always hanging around waiting for the spiritual and God honoring conversation to lull so that they can tell their latest Peter-at-the-pearly-gates joke. Bah! Get out of my life you sleazy creep.
Apparently, the word "amuse" is derived from the Latin "A Muse" and means "against thinking". Silly etymologists, spreading the lie that the word is actually "late 15c., "to divert the attention, beguile, delude," from Middle French amuser "divert, cause to muse," from a "at, to" (but here probably a causal prefix) + muser "ponder, stare fixedly" (see muse (v.)). Sense of "divert from serious business, tickle the fancy of" is recorded from 1630s, but through 18c. the primary meaning was "deceive, cheat" by first occupying the attention." Have they never heard of the Fundy Word Redefinition Project?
So, if you're a xtian and you have ever told a joke, even a one-liner, about anything to do with your magic book, you are a blessing to Satan and can expect to be part of your god's vomit. Doesn't that make you feel good about yourself!
I'll leave the last word to Pastor Joke:
Quote:Did you hear the one about the preacher who made jokes about the Bible and God's holiness?
He went to hell and burned forever.
What's wrong? No one is laughing.
Hmmmmmmmmmmm.
No, because that was shit.
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.'
