Atheists/Non-Religious What was your Craziest Belief while in your Religion?
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Atheists/Non-Religious What was your Craziest Belief while in your Religion?
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August 15, 2014 at 5:07 pm
It's very easy to make statues drip blood. You just make small cuts in the glaze and fill it up with red water, and wait while the liquid seeps out. Been done since 564AD.
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August 15, 2014 at 5:34 pm
I was told by my family that there would be a new world order led by the antichrist.
Everyone would receive the mark of the beast in the form of a barcode on their forehead or wrist. All the x-tians around about this time would be pulled up in the rapture. If you were left behind and did not get the mark of the beast you would be decapitated. I think if I'd been born into a more moderate x-tian family (not completely bat shit crazy), I would have become atheist much earlier. Fear can really shape a kid.  RE: Atheists/Non-Religious What was your Craziest Belief while in your Religion?
August 16, 2014 at 2:33 am
Little Lunch, sorry you had to endure that. For sure that sounds bat shit crazy. When I was 10 or 11 I tried to use the "I have a headache" excuse to get out of going to the revival. This ended in complete fail. I can still remember them all having their hands on me and speaking in tongues. At my grandmothers request they were trying to heal me with the Holy Spirit. It was Horrifying, you can see some crazy shit at a Pentecostal Revival. People in trances and The Lord speaking through them. It's all expectations that they are trying to live up to that's set on them by the ring leader (the preacher). You're not a good Pentecost if you don't feel The Lord and let him speak through you. Except for a few of them that Im pretty sure are mentally ill. Still just the power of persuasion.
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August 16, 2014 at 2:40 am
(August 15, 2014 at 5:34 pm)Little lunch Wrote: I think if I'd been born into a more moderate x-tian family (not completely bat shit crazy), I would have become atheist much earlier. I know exactly what you mean! Thinking back, I probably would have been at least non-religious in my early teens.
"That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence." -Christopher Hitchens- My Hero
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August 17, 2014 at 3:19 am
When I was a Catholic I played Jesus a couple times in a medieval Italian play about the crucifixion we used to do in our parish in the time before easter. I think I got crucified some 12 times...
"Every luxury has a deep price. Every indulgence, a cosmic cost. Each fiber of pleasure you experience causes equivalent pain somewhere else. This is the first law of emodynamics [sic]. Joy can be neither created nor destroyed. The balance of happiness is constant.
Fact: Every time you eat a bite of cake, someone gets horsewhipped. Facter: Every time two people kiss, an orphanage collapses. Factest: Every time a baby is born, an innocent animal is severely mocked for its physical appearance. Don't be a pleasure hog. Your every smile is a dagger. Happiness is murder. Vote "yes" on Proposition 1321. Think of some kids. Some kids."  RE: Atheists/Non-Religious What was your Craziest Belief while in your Religion?
August 17, 2014 at 8:43 am
I have heard that there are groups of people that really do get themselvs crucified. They stop at the nails, though.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."
10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason... http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/ Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50 A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh. http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html RE: Atheists/Non-Religious What was your Craziest Belief while in your Religion?
August 17, 2014 at 12:06 pm
There's never enough crazy in the world!
"Every luxury has a deep price. Every indulgence, a cosmic cost. Each fiber of pleasure you experience causes equivalent pain somewhere else. This is the first law of emodynamics [sic]. Joy can be neither created nor destroyed. The balance of happiness is constant.
Fact: Every time you eat a bite of cake, someone gets horsewhipped. Facter: Every time two people kiss, an orphanage collapses. Factest: Every time a baby is born, an innocent animal is severely mocked for its physical appearance. Don't be a pleasure hog. Your every smile is a dagger. Happiness is murder. Vote "yes" on Proposition 1321. Think of some kids. Some kids." RE: Atheists/Non-Religious What was your Craziest Belief while in your Religion?
August 17, 2014 at 12:24 pm
(This post was last modified: August 17, 2014 at 12:25 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 15, 2014 at 5:34 pm)Little lunch Wrote: If you were left behind and did not get the mark of the beast you would be decapitated.This is a story that parents tell children? I mean, hell, I tell my son that a variety of infractions will make his pecker fall off (and that subsequently, the "pecker-bird" will swoop down and eat it - not to be confused with the "Ronan-bird" which will carry him off whole cloth for a variety of even more severe infractions)....but decapitation...fuck!
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