Worlds Fastest Growing Religion?

[beso]

Finally, an openly Pastafarian public official.

Don't you just love this new universal religious tolerance?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/pastafarian-minister-christopher-schaeffer-is-sworn-into-new-york-town-council-9044607.html

[beso]

@goodlife

Secular laws provisioning the rights of the religious to practice their rituals does in no way endorse them as anything more than a stupid idea.

You have the right to continue to be fools.

[goodlife]

Well what I see is that he that is having dealings with the stupid ones will fare badly”—or, as the Contemporary English Version renders it, you hurt yourself by going around with fools. (Proverbs 13:20)

Don’t misunderstand, the “stupid ones” or “fools” referred to in that verse may not be literally ignorant. On the contrary, they could be straight-A students.
But if they have little regard for Bible standards, then in God’s eyes they’re fools. And you’ll only hurt yourself by being like a chameleon, changing your colors to blend in with them.—1 Corinthians 15:33.

[mikey4444]

zzzzzzzzzzzzz

[naomi24]

Morning Goodlife. You’re up early today.

//…..whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire.// Matthew 5:22

God’s standards appear to be somewhat confused.

[beso]

naomi24 ///
//…..whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire.// Matthew 5:22

God’s standards appear to be somewhat confused. ///

Hardly surprising that God is so confused when so many men attributed their own prejudices to divine inspiration

[jomifl]

GL, the words 'fool' and 'ignorant' have different meanings, you should be aware of that.

[jomifl]

/Morning Goodlife. You’re up early today./
I expect idiosyncracy booted him out of bed.

[whiskeryron]

Anyone with a colander for a hat needs his head examining.

WR.

[goodlife]

Jesus knew that of your thought of burning people alive is repugnant to Jehovah.

Notice how Jesus gets to the bottom of the problem that causes you lot great deal of heartache. You despicable fool!” he would be liable to the fiery Gehenna.

The word “Gehenna” comes from the Hebrew words geh hin•nom′, meaning “valley of Hinnom,” which lay to the west and south of ancient Jerusalem.
In Jesus’ day, the valley had become a place for burning refuse, including the bodies of vile criminals who were considered undeserving of a decent burial. So the word “Gehenna” was a fitting “symbol” of complete destruction.
So Jehovah God expressed repugnance for such practice, saying that it was “a thing that I had not commanded and that had not come up into my heart” (Jer 7:31)
You know to survive, you need to breathe, drink, and eat, just as animals do. But to be happy,you have a need that animals do not have.
He said: “Happy are those conscious of their spiritual need.” (Matthew 5:3) so simple for those who know their Bible.

[ludwig]

On the one hand it's quite amusing, but on the other, I don't think he should be using the position he's just been elected to, to make fun of religion.

[jomifl]

Agreed Ludwig, people should at least appear to respect religion even when they don't..

[mibn2cweus]

Seems to me such displays of religious devotion are bound to put a strain on ones interpersonal relationships.

[beso]

jomifl // people should at least appear to respect religion even when they don't..//

Why?

It has certainly been the prevailing social norm persisting from the time when failing to respect religion would have you killed. But I don't see why it should persist.

Do you respect all strongly held belief systems. Sexism? Fascism? Racism?

[ludwig]

// Agreed Ludwig, people should at least appear to respect religion even when they don't..//

You misunderstand jom. I'm quite happy for him to make fun of religion. I just think he should do it in his own time, rather than hi-jacking the swearing in ceremony to put a colander on his head.

[ludwig]

...to do so makes fun of the office itself, and to some extent the people who voted for him.

[seadogg]

Agreed Ludwig! Makes you wonder what the wazzocks who voted him in were thinking of.

[beso]

ludwig //..to do so makes fun of the office itself, and to some extent the people who voted for him. //

Would you think the same if he was from a traditional religion and wore their silly hat?

[jomifl]

beso, I'd have thought that by now you would have been aware of my view of religion. I was inulging in a little irony.

[ludwig]

// Would you think the same if he was from a traditional religion and wore their silly hat? //

No, because that person wouldn't be deliberately and self-consciously taking the p1s5. I'd just think he had a silly hat on.

[goodlife]

Yes If you weren’t wearing the right hat, you didn’t fit in. You weren’t part of the silly gang. Silly as that might seem, when everybody else is in it and you are out.



And went you face it, from the fog of wishful thinking to firm fact emerges that you do not have a shred of scientific evidence on which to base your fantastic, unscientific, senseless, silly theory of evolution.