(May 5, 2015 at 7:01 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: It occurs to me instead of specific pieces of the Jesus, in communion you get slurry instead.
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Christians say the creepiest shit
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 Saviourlent Green?  RE: Christians say the creepiest shit
May 5, 2015 at 8:17 pm
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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.'
  (May 4, 2015 at 11:52 am)Neimenovic Wrote:(May 4, 2015 at 11:41 am)Chad32 Wrote: The bible has plenty of sexual tidbits to enjoy, if you can find them. It isn't all about genocide and such. Nothing like saying every Jew (almost; Prophets notwithstanding) was a collective whore in God's eye.
But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, His Son, purifies us from all sin.
 (May 4, 2015 at 11:52 am)Neimenovic Wrote:(May 4, 2015 at 11:41 am)Chad32 Wrote: The bible has plenty of sexual tidbits to enjoy, if you can find them. It isn't all about genocide and such. And thus began institutionalized Jewish penis envy.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
PM me your email address to join the Slack chat! I'll give you a taco(or five) if you join! --->There's an app and everything!<---  (May 5, 2015 at 6:47 pm)Jericho Wrote:(May 5, 2015 at 6:46 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: It really is creepy. The eucharist ceremony is also creepy, where one eats the body and drinks the blood of Jesus. It is a very strange practice. Strange, that is, to modern ways of thinking. Cannibalism has been practiced by a wide range of peoples, with evidence of it having been practiced going back 600,000 years: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibalism For the modern eucharist ceremony, if you are accustomed to the mainstream protestant view, that it is symbolic cannibalism, you might be in for a surprise for the official doctrine of the Catholic church to this day, which is described as "transubstantiation," in which the wine and bread are said to LITERALLY change into the body and blood of Jesus. Devout Catholics, who believe official church doctrine, believe that they are actual cannibals (as opposed to protestants believing they are only symbolic cannibals). If you think this cannot be, read for yourself: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transubstantiation "A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence." — David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
RE: Christians say the creepiest shit
May 5, 2015 at 10:18 pm
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(May 5, 2015 at 6:47 pm)Jericho Wrote:(May 5, 2015 at 6:46 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: It really is creepy. The eucharist ceremony is also creepy, where one eats the body and drinks the blood of Jesus. It's never scared me, but just turned me off because I am not as much into physical symbolism for religious observance. The Church I attend from time to time has Communion once a month, so I tend to skip attending that day. Their version is that it was never meant to be the actual blood and body of Christ (even reading the Bible, it very much appears Jesus was speaking in symbolism as He often did), but instead representative of the sacrifice Jesus made so that we could be Saved. Where I used to be scared was going into a Catholic Church. Still don't like doing it.
But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, His Son, purifies us from all sin.
That echoes something I posted before on this subject, where I said that stripping the story down to a purely human level, the last supper comes over as rather a touching narrative moment. The group's leader knows he is about to die and so is basically trying to console them by saying "remember me".
Of course, that's not enough for some literalists. No, it has to be real magic, literally transforming into flesh and blood in your mouth and no you can't test it, blasphemer.
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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