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RE: Help Me Answer My Evangelical Aunt's Most Recent Email!
December 30, 2011 at 9:19 pm
This seems like a good time to post the text from my bio, adapted from something I once found on my travels around the net and presented here in a QFT sense:
Quote:I already found "God." But "God" isn't what you think it is.
"God" is a screaming child in Ethiopia whose kidneys have shut down and is about to die from starvation.
"God" is a dumpster in Vatican City where urchins, just as in every city in the world, feed on refuse; while the wealthiest and most powerful social organisation in the world decadently spends its money just a few blocks away on big hats, gold crosses and silver chalices and continuing to exploit the poorest people in the world in "God's" name.
"God" is hate, "God" is stupidity, "God" is the scum on the bottom of your shoe. "God" is not pretty and "God" does not care.
I found my "God"; then I killed it.
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.'
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RE: Help Me Answer My Evangelical Aunt's Most Recent Email!
December 30, 2011 at 10:23 pm
(December 29, 2011 at 2:58 pm)aleialoura Wrote: The drama is over this picture that she shared on bookface:
![[Image: tebow.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=i1081.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fj360%2Fchristianathecute%2Ftebow.jpg)
I usually am very good about holding my tongue on facebook, but this irked the shit out of me, so I posted a comment that said:
I Wrote:I don't see a problem with either, but I would hope that if there is a god, he has more important things to do than help someone win a football game. I, personally, think that public prayer is not a big deal. Pray on if you want. I'm more concerned with people doing harmful things in public. Prayer is benign.
A few minutes later I received this:
Crazy Evangelical Aunt Wrote:Leigh, you know I like to answer these things privately because I dont ever want to appear to be ridiculing you in any way because I am not but others might think so and I don't want to even take the chance on that. So hear goes...
Since you are an atheist and that is your right and I am certainly not going to use this platform to try and convince you otherwise. I do however think that I should explain to you a little bit about God and prayer and the gifts and talents that God gives us. All good gifts, in this case Tim Tebow's gift is a great football player, should all be used to further the Kingdom of God. The 'platform' that God has given to Tebow, is the football field. Tebow has a desire in his heart to give God thanks and glory because he knows that God is the one that has given him his talents, he also has a responsibility as a Christian to show the world that he recognizes God as his Lord and King. All of us are given platforms to spread the good news of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ some are just more public than others. Unfortunately many Christians fail and are not bold in their worship of the one true God. Tebow isn't and that's why everybody is talking about him. It should be such the norm that the talk would be about the Christian that doesn't give glory to God. There are other 'professed' Christians standing on that field with Tebow... my question is why aren't they bold enough to kneel in praise and glory of the mighty God they claim to believe in.
The media and the most americans readily accept muslims worshiping in their workplace and schools when Christians are not even allowed to speak the name of Jesus in many of these places... even you can surely see the injustice in that.
I don't want to come off as arrogant, antagonistic, or rude... so basically, I don't know what to say.
What would you say?
Tell her the truth. Christians can pray in schools, as can Muslims. But neither Christians nor Muslims can be lead in prayer by a teacher or other member of the faculty.
What falls away is always, and is near.
Also, I am not pretending to be female, this profile picture is my wonderful girlfriend. XD
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RE: Help Me Answer My Evangelical Aunt's Most Recent Email!
December 30, 2011 at 10:26 pm
Shove this picture up her ass.
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RE: Help Me Answer My Evangelical Aunt's Most Recent Email!
December 30, 2011 at 10:34 pm
(December 29, 2011 at 8:18 pm)kılıç_mehmet Wrote: I don't even know what the second picture is about...A handegg player that prays or something?
I'm not sure if you're being serious, so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.
The second player is Tim Tebow, holding a football. He is in his special "prayer stance", which he always does when he does something stressful.
American football is very different from European football. I'm not sure why they have the same name. Anyway, American football is as popular in America as European football is in many European places.
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RE: Help Me Answer My Evangelical Aunt's Most Recent Email!
December 30, 2011 at 11:50 pm
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(December 30, 2011 at 10:34 pm)Aegrus Wrote: American football is very different from European football. I'm not sure why they have the same name. Anyway, American football is as popular in America as European football is in many European places.
There is football, which is a game where a ball is propelled by feet and legs for 95%, and which is a major sport all over the world except in north America.
And there is American 'football', which is a game where an egg is propelled by hands for 95%, and which is a major sport in north America only. Calling that game 'football' shows how confused Americans are. Handegg would be more appropriate of course.
The proportion is about 20 to 1.
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RE: Help Me Answer My Evangelical Aunt's Most Recent Email!
December 31, 2011 at 12:22 am
I suspect they have the same name because both are boring.
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RE: Help Me Answer My Evangelical Aunt's Most Recent Email!
December 31, 2011 at 12:40 am
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(December 30, 2011 at 10:34 pm)Aegrus Wrote: American football is very different from European football. I'm not sure why they have the same name. Anyway, American football is as popular in America as European football is in many European places.
Well, to my understanding, American Football is derived from the game of Rugby, originally Rugby Football as it was supposedly invented at Rugby School. What you refer to as European Football is probably soccer, a name derived from the public school diminutive form of Association Football, as opposed to Rugby's diminutive Rugger.
"Handegg" is definitely a much better name though.
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.'
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RE: Help Me Answer My Evangelical Aunt's Most Recent Email!
December 31, 2011 at 1:34 am
(December 30, 2011 at 11:50 pm)Rokcet Scientist Wrote: (December 30, 2011 at 10:34 pm)Aegrus Wrote: American football is very different from European football. I'm not sure why they have the same name. Anyway, American football is as popular in America as European football is in many European places.
There is football, which is a game where a ball is propelled by feet and legs for 95%, and which is a major sport all over the world except in north America.
And there is American 'football', which is a game where an egg is propelled by hands for 95%, and which is a major sport in north America only. Calling that game 'football' shows how confused Americans are. Handegg would be more appropriate of course.
The proportion is about 20 to 1.
 Okay, I'll give you that one. Actual football has a lot more fans than hand egg.
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RE: Help Me Answer My Evangelical Aunt's Most Recent Email!
December 31, 2011 at 1:57 am
You two goofballs stop it...LOL!
Wait...no...keep going...Im loving it!
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RE: Help Me Answer My Evangelical Aunt's Most Recent Email!
December 31, 2011 at 2:23 pm
(December 30, 2011 at 9:19 pm)Stimbo Wrote: This seems like a good time to post the text from my bio, adapted from something I once found on my travels around the net and presented here in a QFT sense:
Quote:I already found "God." But "God" isn't what you think it is.
"God" is a screaming child in Ethiopia whose kidneys have shut down and is about to die from starvation.
"God" is a dumpster in Vatican City where urchins, just as in every city in the world, feed on refuse; while the wealthiest and most powerful social organisation in the world decadently spends its money just a few blocks away on big hats, gold crosses and silver chalices and continuing to exploit the poorest people in the world in "God's" name.
"God" is hate, "God" is stupidity, "God" is the scum on the bottom of your shoe. "God" is not pretty and "God" does not care.
I found my "God"; then I killed it.
That is superb.
You are currently experiencing a lucky and very brief window of awareness, sandwiched in between two periods of timeless and utter nothingness. So why not make the most of it, and stop wasting your life away trying to convince other people that there is something else? The reality is obvious.
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