"Laughing At Religion" Meme Thread

[The Valkyrie]

Thank a god my ass...it was the cath lab staff, the doctor, and the ICU nurses and staff that pulled me through.  Not to mention the ambulance attendant who was with me when the heart attack actually happened.

Let's give credit where credit is due.

Yes, human excellence is always praiseworthy. Were it me though, I would hope to also be grateful to the God who gave wisdom to the lab staff and doctor, strength & perseverance to the nurses, and who inspired a culture of inquiry that gave birth to the scientific method and Western medicine...but that's just me.

Yet we all had to pay our own way through med-school...

[arewethereyet]

Thank a god my ass...it was the cath lab staff, the doctor, and the ICU nurses and staff that pulled me through.  Not to mention the ambulance attendant who was with me when the heart attack actually happened.

Let's give credit where credit is due.

Yes, human excellence is always praiseworthy. Were it me though, I would hope to also be grateful to the God who gave wisdom to the lab staff and doctor, strength & perseverance to the nurses, and who inspired a culture of inquiry that gave birth to the scientific method and Western medicine...but that's just me.

pffft

[Fireball]

It's so charming how the pompous in their religion people can be so condescending...and wrong, and accusatory about non-existent hate.

[arewethereyet]

Let's see...my cardiologist is Hindu, my PCP is Jewish, and the plastic surgeon I had when I had breast cancer is Christian. Being in a pretty diverse area, I assume that the staff that has taken care of me has run the gamut of beliefs and non-beliefs.

Which God is in charge? All of them, one of them, some of them?

[Fireball]

Let's see...my cardiologist is Hindu, my PCP is Jewish, and the plastic surgeon I had when I had breast cancer is Christian.  Being in a pretty diverse area, I assume that the staff that has taken care of me has run the gamut of beliefs and non-beliefs.

Which God is in charge?  All of them, one of them, some of them?

Clearly, it's that vindictive, jealous being of uncertain sexuality in the Judeo-Xtian religion, and you'd better believe in it, or else!

[arewethereyet]

Let's see...my cardiologist is Hindu, my PCP is Jewish, and the plastic surgeon I had when I had breast cancer is Christian.  Being in a pretty diverse area, I assume that the staff that has taken care of me has run the gamut of beliefs and non-beliefs.

Which God is in charge?  All of them, one of them, some of them?

Clearly, it's that vindictive, jealous being of uncertain sexuality in the Judeo-Xtian religion, and you'd better believe in it, or else!

Clearly is Neo talking out his ass.  Surely, there's a Holy Bibly verse to back it up.

We'll wait to find out.   It'll most likely be something we don't understand because we don't have the magic decoder ring that helps decode primitive goat herder to modern times.  Those are only given to the REAL Christians.

[Belacqua]

It is a book which any reasonable, intellectually honest, and intelligent person should heartily dismiss as bad fiction.  

But the books which you prefer -- the ones you refer to ad nauseam -- were written by a conservative Catholic who said that the purpose of life is "to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all the means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks." He took the Bible seriously. 

So it appears that the books you talk about all the time were written by a man you judge to be unreasonable, intellectually dishonest, and unintelligent.

[brewer]

Let's see...my cardiologist is Hindu, my PCP is Jewish, and the plastic surgeon I had when I had breast cancer is Christian.  Being in a pretty diverse area, I assume that the staff that has taken care of me has run the gamut of beliefs and non-beliefs.

Which God is in charge?  All of them, one of them, some of them?

Please tell me that your OB/GYN is a druid.

[Fake Messiah]

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Let's see...my cardiologist is Hindu, my PCP is Jewish, and the plastic surgeon I had when I had breast cancer is Christian.  Being in a pretty diverse area, I assume that the staff that has taken care of me has run the gamut of beliefs and non-beliefs.

Which God is in charge?  All of them, one of them, some of them?

It's funny, though - I see four doctors on the regular, and I have no idea about the religious leanings of any of them. And I don't particularly care.

As for Neo thanking God for (essentially) inventing medicine, that seems rather pointless. If God hadn't allowed for illness, disease, and accidents, there would have been no need for medical science.

Boru