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19 Feb 2009, 11:16 am

Why hasn't anybody mentioned Mormon underwear?



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19 Feb 2009, 11:59 am

carturo222 wrote:
Why hasn't anybody mentioned Mormon underwear?


They are unmentionables.



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19 Feb 2009, 12:14 pm

carturo222 wrote:
Why hasn't anybody mentioned Mormon underwear?


Too easy.



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19 Feb 2009, 3:53 pm

slowmutant wrote:
carturo222 wrote:
Why hasn't anybody mentioned Mormon underwear?


Too easy.


I'll put my hand up to being ignorant of this issue. I could google it but that would negate the purpose of this thread


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19 Feb 2009, 4:05 pm

Strange/ridiculous religious beliefs...

- Belief in an immaterial realm that is populated by immaterial beings ("Spirits"), complete with heirarchy, bureaucracy, and geography.

- Belief in a being so powereful that he/she/it could speak the universe into existance, but yet be powerless to affect the life of those who don't believe.

- A book is considered the complete and inerrant word of an infallible god, yet it can't get even the most elementary principles of geometry correct.

And this last one is not a religious belief, per se, but it seems to address religion in general:

- Any parody of religion is indistinguishable from religion itself.


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19 Feb 2009, 4:30 pm

Fnord wrote:
- A book is considered the complete and inerrant word of an infallible god, yet it can't get even the most elementary principles of geometry correct.

And this last one is not a religious belief, per se, but it seems to address religion in general:

- Any parody of religion is indistinguishable from religion itself.


pi = 3. oops! flat earth oops!

Scientology was a stunt by L. Ron Hubbard that actually caught on. Suppose Christianity was the same kind of thing. Who knows?

Abraham made up a unitary diety 3000 years ago and the world is still talking about it.

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19 Feb 2009, 10:01 pm

ruveyn wrote:
Fnord wrote:
- A book is considered the complete and inerrant word of an infallible god, yet it can't get even the most elementary principles of geometry correct.

And this last one is not a religious belief, per se, but it seems to address religion in general:

- Any parody of religion is indistinguishable from religion itself.


pi = 3. oops! flat earth oops!

Scientology was a stunt by L. Ron Hubbard that actually caught on. Suppose Christianity was the same kind of thing. Who knows?

Abraham made up a unitary diety 3000 years ago and the world is still talking about it.

ruveynb


As much as I find religion idiotic and malevolent (I seem to have acquired a prime reputation of being outstandingly atheist) I would venture that Abraham most likely acted out of ignorance and a genuine but totally misdirected attempt to confront the huge unknowns of his era to form a recognizable pattern. L.Ron Hubbard was a scam artist with a rather nasty sense of humor and a total contempt for humanity which was, to a good degree, justified by the success of his organization. Gullibility, fear and ignorance are the basic components of religion and Hubbard was right on the mark in manipulating them to produce his gigantic fraud.



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21 Feb 2009, 4:22 am

Sand wrote:
carturo222 wrote:
Why hasn't anybody mentioned Mormon underwear?


They are unmentionables.


:lmao:

I guess we won't go into the Undie World. . .

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21 Feb 2009, 7:20 am

Of course then there is Noahs Ark


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21 Feb 2009, 11:24 am

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Of course then there is Noahs Ark


This tale is lifted bodily from the Babylonian Gilgamesh mythology. I have often wondered what would have happened if Noah met up with Galgamesh on the high seas. The flood theme has popped up in several and sundry cultures. Could it be a Jungian Archetype for the birth trauma and amniotic fluid?

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22 Feb 2009, 3:11 am

No one's gone after Islam yet, so allow me.

According to Islam...

-Jesus was a Muslim.

-Moses was a Muslim.

-Jesus was never crucified (despite historical records to the contrary, in fact Allah was just playing tricks)

-It is absolutely, entirely forbidden to pray to idols... but five times a day (at least) you must pray while facing in the direction of a black stone that was worshiped as an idol by pre-Islamic Bedouin tribes.

-Islam is the most peaceful religion on Earth.

-Islam promotes women's rights more effectively than does any other faith.

-A book for which there is almost no paper trail whatsoever is infallible because Mohammed's followers memorized what he said and repeated it to the next generation, but manuscripts from almost the time of their authors with extensive textual background to support them have obviously been corrupted, most likely by some massive conspiracy involving Paul.

-Polygamy is good.

-Giving a loan to someone to buy a house is immoral. Instead, you should let them pay in "installments" and insist that they pay the entire cost of the house before they own it, and in the meantime they will pay you rent.

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I could go on, but I think I've said enough for now.


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22 Feb 2009, 3:25 am

Orwell wrote:

I could go on, but I think I've said enough for now.


Enough said : A fatwa on you infidel 8O :lol:

With regard to womens rights some forms of Christianity are equally as bad (I am talking general Islam here not the beheading nutjobs)


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22 Feb 2009, 6:28 am

Orwell wrote:
No one's gone after Islam yet, so allow me.

According to Islam...

-Jesus was a Muslim.

-Moses was a Muslim.


8O but there was no such thing as Islam back then...

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-Polygamy is good.


it is for some :p

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-Giving a loan to someone to buy a house is immoral. Instead, you should let them pay in "installments" and insist that they pay the entire cost of the house before they own it, and in the meantime they will pay you rent.


I'm pretty sure that the Catholic church had the same view on loans at least till XVIIIth century. that's why the Jews were so hated in Europe- they were seen as sinners because they gave loans, while Christians would face being excommunicated if they did.


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22 Feb 2009, 9:51 am

This is a bit late but..

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In Genesis, it is said that 'God created man in his image; male and female created he them'

This is not true. It says: VOmer (God) naseh Adam btzelmanu.
Translation And god said, let us make man in our image.
There is no mention of making man and woman at the same time, at least not in the Jewish bible (aka the Torah). This makes the rest of your statement utter baloney as well. I have never heard our supposed midrash about Lilith before. In fact the only time she is referenced is in Isiah 34:14, and the Ibin Ezra says that that might refer to a nocturnal bird.


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22 Feb 2009, 10:02 am

One of the fine examples when religion and money meet is the story of St. Ursula in Cologne.

In early mediaeval time was a legend that an English princess, St. Ursula, and 11 of her female follows died as Christian martyrs and virgins in Cologne and a church was erected in her honour. Later, in the 13rd century they build some extensions to the existing church. This church was build on top of a antique Roman and early mediaeval graveyard. By digging for the new fundaments they found consequently a lot of human bones. So the story changed a bit and the number of the follows raised suddenly from 11 to 11'000. Enough bone to start a lucrative trade and to decorade one of the most morbid rooms I ever saw: The "Golden Chamber" of St. Ursula in Cologne:

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22 Feb 2009, 1:04 pm

All this trouble over a foreskin. Did they also worry about all the skin he shed naturally as part of his life, his nail clippings, scabs, baby teeth (surely those last must be relics at least) and cells discarded as part of excreted waste? Jesus ascending up to heaven accompanied by a detritus of bodily leftovers is rather an unpleasant picture!