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Coragyps
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Message 18 of 136 (631013)
08-29-2011 9:30 PM
Reply to: Message 17 by Taq
08-29-2011 5:48 PM


Re: imposing christianity at funerals
I read a nice little story by an evangelical Christian several years ago. He told of his conversion from "prayers on the PA" to not. The conversion was caused by some prayers on the PA before a high-school football game, but they were Buddhist prayers at a school in Hawaii. The author's reaction to that was a very gracious, "Oh, I get it now!"
I've wanted to argue with the locals here about what prayers they would most prefer at our football games. Somehow. I don't think that the most vocal proponents would really prefer the choice of the largest bloc of players/students: "Dios te salve, Mara, llena eres de gracia ....."

"The Christian church, in its attitude toward science, shows the mind of a more or less enlightened man of the Thirteenth Century. It no longer believes that the earth is flat, but it is still convinced that prayer can cure after medicine fails." H L Mencken

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Coragyps
Member (Idle past 734 days)
Posts: 5553
From: Snyder, Texas, USA
Joined: 11-12-2002


Message 120 of 136 (635339)
09-28-2011 6:33 PM
Reply to: Message 108 by Omnivorous
09-27-2011 8:23 PM


Re: I Shall Be Released
I used to make up different, seditious words to the hymns and wait to see how long it took for the folks next to me to notice and slide down the pew
"I was sinking deep in sin
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"

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Coragyps
Member (Idle past 734 days)
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From: Snyder, Texas, USA
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Message 122 of 136 (635356)
09-28-2011 8:26 PM
Reply to: Message 121 by Omnivorous
09-28-2011 7:22 PM


Re: I Shall Be Released
Apparently the Big Unforgivable is "blasphemy of the Holy Spirit," to which I say fuck a whole basket of holy spirits, and feed 'em fishheads.

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