(May 7, 2015 at 3:42 pm)emjay Wrote:(May 7, 2015 at 3:05 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: Yep, there was a lot of speaking in tongues and I don't know what to call it but 'touching and fainting' at some of the churches we went to but the Baptist one they go to now is not like that, but still relatively happy-clappy. I tried speaking in tongues once and it's pretty easy to just talk gobbledegook and make it sound like a language, so that never convinced me at all as being divinely inspired, even when I was a Christian i.e. mine didn't sound any different to theirs and I knew mine was bullshit
Don't get me started on televangelists. Everyone knows Billy Grayam was a fake - that there were stooges in his audience - but unfortunately my dad sees all that sort of stuff as, well, the Gospel Truth.
Too bad we can't pray for our parents.They're so intelligent in other areas of life. I hate what the church has done to my mother.
How many televangelists does it take to change a light bulb?
Just one. And if you would like for the message of light to continue, send in your check today.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
