tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5099635.post5195918531307107843..comments2023-12-21T04:41:43.537-05:00Comments on Jesus' General: The Opinuary ColumnUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5099635.post-5765124569513790922009-12-13T06:01:14.588-05:002009-12-13T06:01:14.588-05:00This is a great piece of footage. Pity you spelle...This is a great piece of footage. Pity you spelled his name wrong thoughMakemakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16547583592596692365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5099635.post-67115716411794797832009-12-12T17:44:18.724-05:002009-12-12T17:44:18.724-05:00I believe the name of this opinion was mis-quoted....I believe the name of this opinion was mis-quoted. The opinion's full name is "To be a a <i>monotheist</i> necessarily means...", though in some situations the word "monotheist" can be interchanged with the phrase "child of Abraham."Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15126750605069711353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5099635.post-60293035460106760832009-12-12T08:39:00.375-05:002009-12-12T08:39:00.375-05:00It's Barbara Tuchman's "The March of ...It's Barbara Tuchman's "The March of Folly" theory. Like governments that eventually work against their own interests, so, too, do dying religions. <br /><br />Judaism has been basically a social club like the Rotarians for some time (although no one told Hitler and Israel); and Christianity has been riding a greased rail for centuries. It was inevitable that the 'True Believers' would start acting like that which Jesus condemned -- hypocrites, moneychangers, warmongers, priests to the powerful, et al. Islam, 600 years younger than Christianity, has started its suicidal path as well, no humor intended.<br /><br />We'll probably have to endure another few centuries of some kind of organized pious hogwash before the human race emerges from the other end of the religious alimentary canal to bask in the enlightened state of each person believing whatever the hell they want without benefit of a church, synagogue or mosque, and without paying dues to contemplate an invisible entity that may only exist in myth.<br /><br />That's if we survive that long, an issue which is still in doubt.Rick Janeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08782755645801906878noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5099635.post-74745818246078129032009-12-11T23:48:07.885-05:002009-12-11T23:48:07.885-05:00I used to think that being a Christian had a neutr...I used to think that being a Christian had a neutral moral value--true, I thought, there might be positive or negative Christians, but maybe it all ended in a zero sum game--it wasn't all that important to pay too close attention to true believers. That approach has changed for me: I can no longer abide nonsense, especially when the nonsense perpetuates bigotry and intellectual and moral vacuity. The commingling of church and state, of guns and god and oil, is an obscenity.<br /><br />Maybe the Opinion didn't die of natural causes. Maybe it was gunned down by a hunter riding shotgun in a helicopter--perhaps it was scoped and plugged by a Christian assassin sent by TBN. Maybe only 30% of the US is batshit stupid and crazy. Still, that's a whole lot of turds in the punch bowl. And I'm thirsty, damnit!<br /><br />++++mjshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13233294798002466875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5099635.post-55202389291286070262009-12-11T12:40:24.689-05:002009-12-11T12:40:24.689-05:00....the scientific theory of evolution (as opposed.......the scientific theory of evolution (as opposed to the non-scientific assertions of Genesis) to name but a few.<br /><br /><br />Richard Dawkins has changed this to the "Evolution Theorum" recently.<br /><br />Great post, mjs.Blind Faithinesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02190552500445170096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5099635.post-27379571359367676072009-12-11T10:52:56.093-05:002009-12-11T10:52:56.093-05:00I hear the Opinion's headstone reads: " H...I hear the Opinion's headstone reads: " Holier than thou, but will put in a good word for you, you pagan dirtbag of a soul".jcrickethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04557218312416195064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5099635.post-15439071687609521932009-12-11T09:42:01.630-05:002009-12-11T09:42:01.630-05:00Mr. mjs, Sir:
No word on the opinion's siames...Mr. mjs, Sir:<br /><br />No word on the opinion's siamese twin brother, KKKristianity (separated sometime after the reformation)? He seems to be thriving, the little bugger.democommiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08714733977927594559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5099635.post-57580750961975169662009-12-11T09:39:05.237-05:002009-12-11T09:39:05.237-05:00mjs
I hope you don't mind that I'm consid...mjs<br /><br />I hope you don't mind that I'm considering plagiaizing big honkin' chunks of this for my first annual Holiday(tm) newsletter. I have quite a few fundi-xian relatives and this would be a great way to share the spirit of the season.Big Boppahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01584970803398988829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5099635.post-74081855459883785292009-12-11T09:20:48.464-05:002009-12-11T09:20:48.464-05:00One of my favorite quotes from David Foster Wallac...One of my favorite quotes from David Foster Wallace:<br /><br /><i>“… I have administrative bones to pick with God …. I’ll say God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I’m not crazy about. I’m pretty much anti-death. God looks by all accounts to be pro-death. I’m not seeing how we can get together on this issue ….”</i><br /><br />(From <i>Infinite Jest</i>.)<br /><br />Or, if you prefer Monty Python’s take on the whole Jehovah business, there’s <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNeq2Utm0nU" rel="nofollow">this</a>.Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08981424431669076836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5099635.post-41385425213757933322009-12-11T08:33:46.020-05:002009-12-11T08:33:46.020-05:00The problem with this particular death is that it ...The problem with this particular death is that it had served as the balancing vindication to a young nation's eager and impetuous decree.<br /><br />While lately it served more as lip service insofar as its primary subject had taught, nonetheless the self-serving advocates couldn't press the older biblical texts hard enough, preferring 'an eye for an eye' over Christ's love for His fellow man.<br /><br /><i>Abject reality</i> is a bitch.Joe Visionaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03036185687122768326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5099635.post-81831862215483426422009-12-11T07:54:30.491-05:002009-12-11T07:54:30.491-05:00Great post, mjs, with possibly one typo, you can&#...Great post, mjs, with possibly one typo, you can't really do anything "for" the poor because they will always be with you, that's scripture. You can just do "to" them. They should, of course, be eternaloly gratefull for whatever it is.knowdoubthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11647184346948896676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5099635.post-43314260433438316672009-12-11T04:18:12.548-05:002009-12-11T04:18:12.548-05:00By God, mjs, you left out so much of the good bad ...By God, mjs, you left out so much of the good bad stuff that Christians have done. And I'm not just talking about the Crusades and the Inquisition. <a href="http://www.nothingnewpress.com/guerber/renaissance-massacre.html" rel="nofollow"> I'm talking about things like the massacre of the Huguenots.</a> That was back when the French really knew how to kill people. Even though the ones being kilt were other French people...Bukko Boomerangerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02424677168216647964noreply@blogger.com