I think it is only in this area they were so ahead of their time. Having realized the phantoms they worshiped were without body or form and were said to dwell in space, wireless comm was required and it was urgent so the brains got working and that was the solution, it has just been improved over time
We at Heavenly Communication™ ISP are aware of your wireless connection failure. This problem was reported at 12:00 April 24: 31 CE. A new router will be dispatched within three working millennia. Until then, please use the LAN cable supplied with your Paradise™ router.
He starts off all erudite and straight down the line, then as soon as one offers the thinnest of lines he is like a pensioner’s Yorkie: dives for your ankles yapping all his religious bullshit. One is tempted to kick him in the balls but his argument is so bloody hairy and he moves so much you can’t get a decent boot in.
To tell you the truth i can’t even figure out what the hell he’s saying about worldview and how i MUST accept his Christian theistic view. It’s off the scales on my BULLSHITO’DOMETER.
It might be a difficult call but people of his ilk contribute nothing to rational discussion.
They are mini-Prayson’s.
If a point cannot be got across in a few paragraphs using ordinary common sense lauguar then something is fundamentally wrong with their argument.
Atheist bloggers are used to this type of bullshit, but how can these people relate to ordinary christians for the gods sake?
Could you imagine a Theo, Unklee or Prayson in the pulpit? How about them talking to their kids!
Shudders…
Well, apparently i’ve had to submit to his worldview just so he can answer a rather simple question: how do you explain jesus not knowing Moses didn’t exist? You’d think that was a fairly straightforward question, right? SEVEN comments later he still hasn’t answered…. It’s not normal behaviour.
I believe he, like PeW, demeans the websites he visits.
I am in two minds as to ban such idiots or immediately delete their comment if they are not straight – as I began to do with Mark and PeW.
It prevents them monopolizing a post with crap.
Step up to the plate and answer the damned question or get deleted.
Not everyone’s cup of tea, of course.
Well, the post was about him so i’d be being an asshole if i edited him out. Still, i actually think these people do their religions such a disservice that we should only encourage them to talk.
I am probably angry fr this reason…they do not answer questions put to them, hence my desire to zap them into Spam Heaven.
The only hope is that some regain a measure of sanity like bloggers Marcus and Nate.
I only delete the unnecessarily foul and offensive (haven’t done it yet, but—)
In the meantime if some raving lunatic publicly declares himself, who are we to gainsay him? Her? It? Let ’em rave, I say: “by the fruits of their labours shall thee know them” (or however it goes, I’m a bit rusty).
Have to jump in here and give a big ‘tut tut’ to Ark for deleting comments! I think this proves that PeW and Mark have trumped you and you’re afraid for anyone to see it …. otherwise, clearly, you would have left them.
Er….no. It was because after repeated requests to a) stick to the topic and b) answer the specific question they continued to meander around the countryside and refused to offer any sane reasonable answer. Therefore I chucked them in the bin,…..where rubbish should go.
Maybe you are right…perhaps you ought to take over and use your undeniable theological debating skills and in depth awareness of Mosaic Law and encyclopaedic knowledge of Abrahamic religions to demonstrate to all these reborn evangelical plonkers why they need to read
a science book.
Ha! True. I was reading through your exchange with Theo this morning. You don’t need to hear it from me, but your patience in the face of such absurdity was impressive.
It’s more than lightning rods that betray a believers faith. Every time they fasten a seatbelt they make the statement that they do not have faith that God will protect them. Each time they take a medication prescribed by their doctor the Bible goes out the window. Of course, every time they go to work they reveal their lack of faith that the Lord will provide for them.
True. I always liked this extract from Scott Adams’, God’s Debris:
“Very few people believe in God,” he replied.
I didn’t see how he could deny the obvious. “Of course
they do. Billions of people believe in God.”
The old man leaned toward me, resting a blanketed
elbow on the arm of his rocker.
“Four billion people say they believe in God, but few
genuinely believe. If people believed in God, they would
live every minute of their lives in support of that belief. Rich
people would give their wealth to the needy. Everyone
would be frantic to determine which religion was the true
one. No one could be comfortable in the thought that they
might have picked the wrong religion and blundered into
eternal damnation, or bad reincarnation, or some other
unthinkable consequence. People would dedicate their lives
to converting others to their religions.
“A belief in God would demand one hundred percent
obsessive devotion, influencing every waking moment of
this brief life on earth. But your four billion so-called believers
do not live their lives in that fashion, except for a few.
The majority believe in the usefulness of their beliefs—an
earthly and practical utility—but they do not believe in the
underlying reality.”
For some reason this reminds me of those Jews who wrap themselves in giant plastic bags when flying in commercial aircraft—apparently doing so makes flying over the graveyards six miles below somehow ‘kosher’ (if that’s the right word?).
Plays merry hell with the sensitivities of the aircrew and fellow passengers though.
Jupiter and Yhwh, don’t they have the same generic root anyway? These people and their details ay?
Franklin strikes me as an intelligent fellow, but perhaps not so much the bloke who made up the story about him flying a kite in an electrical storm. That and umbrellas, bad idea. I remember being in such a severe storm once, not long after it was reported on the news several incidents of people having been struck by lightning (shocking!) because they’d been obtuse enough to put up their umbrellas to protect them from what was absolutely torrential rain. Stupid fuckers!
And there was me thinking that religion slowly committed suicide, one of whose limbs fell off and reincarnated first into a bunch of fat hairy toffs and then into the science that we all know and love…
Are you sure about that? You mean alternate to your proposed one, which of course is just as likely in the great scheme of things. I’m sure Veles is proud 🙂
Veles inhabits an odd landscape. I like to visit from time to time but its way up there on the Bizarro scale. Up is down, left is right, rabbits are unicorns, and T’s are K’s. Still, he has a kickass home theater system and we like to watch the alternate universes play out… and mess with them sometimes. He’s good like that.
Ha… that must be what happened then, I must have turned to the wrong page in my Multiversal Encyclopaedia Brittanica… your version is of course the correct one! They really should make it into an e-book, instead of the almost infinite volumes that take up…actually I’m not really sure what room or reality their in…. maybe past the sign marked “Not this Way”
In 1984 York minster was ablaze. It was thought it had been struck by lightning or had had an electrical fault, but the idea which came to the front was it was god’s revenge. Not long before the fire David Jenkins was consecrated as bishop of Durham and he held some so-called radical views.
A Quote from wiki
David Jenkins’ selection as Bishop of Durham in 1984 was controversial due to allegations that he held heterodox beliefs. His “conjuring trick with bones” comment, about the resurrection of Christ, was criticised in particular, though some have argued that he was misquoted. The original line appears to have been “[the Resurrection] is real. That’s the point. All I said was ‘literally physical’. I was very careful in the use of language. After all, a conjuring trick with bones proves only that somebody’s very clever at a conjuring trick with bones.” [11] He had stated on other occasions his view that the resurrected Christ lacked a physical body.
Three days after his consecration as bishop on 6 July 1984, York Minster was struck by lightning, resulting in a disastrous fire which some interpreted as a sign of divine wrath at Jenkins’s appointment.[12]
Is it not possible that Big G was aiming at a nearby mosque but didn’t allow enough deflection for a moving target? Don’t forget that they may be static to us but He sees the bigger picture. (And poor ol’ Fella is getting on a bit now … new glasses?)
Dear John,
I wonder if you’ve heard of Katharine Jefferts Schori, brilliant biologist and oceanographer (also a pilot, so I assume she knows about lightening), Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church. A smart, very fine lady who like me finds science and religion compatible. I met her and can verify she exists. But ignore me—she’s a public figure: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/page/biography-katharine-jefferts-schori
Religion is compatible with science with the same way that water is compatible with a leaky roof. It can squeeze nicely through the cracks, but every hole that gets fixed leaves less room for gods.
Just had to look her up. Sounds like a fine human being, more power to her… but that doesn’t make her a friend of science. The reason science and religion conflict is because they use entirely different methods of deciding what information correctly describes reality, and what is incorrect. It’s perfectly valid to use any method to come up with an idea about how reality works, including revelation. Scientists have revelations all the time, although probably not from a supernatural source. The difference is in how you decide whether it is nonsense. Religion relies on authority. If the information is from someone important (god, pope, priest, parent, bible) it is true. Science relies on falsification. If the information can be falsified, but isn’t, it isn’t “true” but rather it is temporarily and conditionally correct and useful, at least until it will later be shown to be somewhat or completely false. When that happens, it will be corrected, making it more accurate, not less.
Science, therefore, progresses by being wrong, and religion can’t possibly be wrong. Scientists attempt to correct older ideas including their own, by pointing out what is wrong with them. Religion attempts at all cost to show that it isn’t wrong, because once it is conclusively demonstrated that any detail is wrong, the whole authority house of cards collapses.
” If the information is from someone important (god, pope, priest, parent, bible) it is true.” This is not how it’s done in the Episcopal Church, in fact Bart Erdman books are sometimes taught. I’ve heard priests say the Bible is myth, and that’s ok because myth can run deeper than true story.
Further, in my theology studies I had to bone up on simplified logic and certain math and science principles to even begin to read some texts. It’s impossible to approach Phil. of Religion w/o scientific principles in one’s context.
I’m impressed, but you are a rare gem in the theistic world, Keene. Episcopals, though, still believe in the Abrahamic god, so their hands (although well meaning) are tied to all that nonsense.
Found this article this morning. As i was reading you came to mind. Never say never…
ok, scanned the article. I don’t know if the discovery proves anything to me I don’t already believe or that isn’t obvious: something is keeping me from falling of the edge of the earth. My body works, it heals itself, etc etc on this we all agree. I call this “God” others call it science (for me, same as God) others intelligent design. Whatever “it” is I’m glad it’s working and I’m joyful for the new discoveries out there in the Universe. I’ve always believed there’s more than one. Thanks. (BTW “Proof of Heaven” by the unbelieving neuroscientist who died and experienced otherwise an interesting case.)
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Religion has not been killed. It is still alive. Revealed religion covers ethical, moral and spiritual aspects of life; science covers the physical and material. They both complement one another; they are not contradictory.
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Or they might just want to tap the “free electricity” from god…
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Ha! I forgot the Christian church was the leading research organisation in advanced battery technology 😉
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Brilliantly simple – I love it! 🙂
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Sometimes the messages have to be razor-bladed back 🙂
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If you’ve got a copy of Asimov’s The Stars In Their Course, there’s a great essay in it—The Fateful Lightning—in which he makes the same point.
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Curses! “Courses.“
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Never read it, but i’m not surprised to hear the observation caught his magnificently studious eye.
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Maybe next time, rather than Jesus saving us, science can save Jesus:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/16/touchdown-jesus-statue-burns-down
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Ahahahaha! Classic! Touchdown Jesus seems to have become dancing Jesus!
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Or went from Touchdown Jesus to Up in Flames Jesus.
But I think they resurrected the statue already.
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I do wish they’d stop doing that! 🙂
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No those are not lightening rods, they are communication masts to heaven! How can you be so blind?
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D’oh! So the heavens are wireless?
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I thought you knew that already my brother?
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Stupid me… I thought it was all copper wires, what, being devised in the Bronze Age and all 😉
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I think it is only in this area they were so ahead of their time. Having realized the phantoms they worshiped were without body or form and were said to dwell in space, wireless comm was required and it was urgent so the brains got working and that was the solution, it has just been improved over time
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We at Heavenly Communication™ ISP are aware of your wireless connection failure. This problem was reported at
12:00 April 24: 31 CE. A new router will be dispatched within three working millennia. Until then, please use the LAN cable supplied with your Paradise™ router.Thank you for your patience
St Peter (Manager, customer services division)
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Awesome, John. And as MBT said. Beautifully simple!
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Demonstrates a certain lack of confidence, wouldn’t you say?
Was just reading your exchange with Theo. Was out yesterday so i had to catch up. You have to question if these people are actually sane, don’t you?
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He starts off all erudite and straight down the line, then as soon as one offers the thinnest of lines he is like a pensioner’s Yorkie: dives for your ankles yapping all his religious bullshit. One is tempted to kick him in the balls but his argument is so bloody hairy and he moves so much you can’t get a decent boot in.
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To tell you the truth i can’t even figure out what the hell he’s saying about worldview and how i MUST accept his Christian theistic view. It’s off the scales on my BULLSHITO’DOMETER.
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It might be a difficult call but people of his ilk contribute nothing to rational discussion.
They are mini-Prayson’s.
If a point cannot be got across in a few paragraphs using ordinary common sense lauguar then something is fundamentally wrong with their argument.
Atheist bloggers are used to this type of bullshit, but how can these people relate to ordinary christians for the gods sake?
Could you imagine a Theo, Unklee or Prayson in the pulpit? How about them talking to their kids!
Shudders…
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Well, apparently i’ve had to submit to his worldview just so he can answer a rather simple question: how do you explain jesus not knowing Moses didn’t exist? You’d think that was a fairly straightforward question, right? SEVEN comments later he still hasn’t answered…. It’s not normal behaviour.
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I believe he, like PeW, demeans the websites he visits.
I am in two minds as to ban such idiots or immediately delete their comment if they are not straight – as I began to do with Mark and PeW.
It prevents them monopolizing a post with crap.
Step up to the plate and answer the damned question or get deleted.
Not everyone’s cup of tea, of course.
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Well, the post was about him so i’d be being an asshole if i edited him out. Still, i actually think these people do their religions such a disservice that we should only encourage them to talk.
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I am probably angry fr this reason…they do not answer questions put to them, hence my desire to zap them into Spam Heaven.
The only hope is that some regain a measure of sanity like bloggers Marcus and Nate.
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I only delete the unnecessarily foul and offensive (haven’t done it yet, but—)
In the meantime if some raving lunatic publicly declares himself, who are we to gainsay him? Her? It? Let ’em rave, I say: “by the fruits of their labours shall thee know them” (or however it goes, I’m a bit rusty).
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My sentiments exactly!
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Have to jump in here and give a big ‘tut tut’ to Ark for deleting comments! I think this proves that PeW and Mark have trumped you and you’re afraid for anyone to see it …. otherwise, clearly, you would have left them.
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Er….no. It was because after repeated requests to a) stick to the topic and b) answer the specific question they continued to meander around the countryside and refused to offer any sane reasonable answer. Therefore I chucked them in the bin,…..where rubbish should go.
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Yeah yeah. *Your* interpretation of sticking to the question. You’re just like all the fundies!! 🙂
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Maybe you are right…perhaps you ought to take over and use your undeniable theological debating skills and in depth awareness of Mosaic Law and encyclopaedic knowledge of Abrahamic religions to demonstrate to all these reborn evangelical plonkers why they need to read
a science book.
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Start with Roy… He quotes directly from Ken Ham’s Answers in Genesis.
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You cut like a surgeon. It will be a while before they feel the pain.
Sweet!
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Daz tells me Asimov picked up on this in The Fateful Lightning… so its not new, but it is cutting 🙂
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Lightening rods must have pissed Thor off quite a bit. 🙂 He likely got some satisfaction however with his pin point strike on touchdown Jesus.
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Ha! True. I was reading through your exchange with Theo this morning. You don’t need to hear it from me, but your patience in the face of such absurdity was impressive.
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It’s more than lightning rods that betray a believers faith. Every time they fasten a seatbelt they make the statement that they do not have faith that God will protect them. Each time they take a medication prescribed by their doctor the Bible goes out the window. Of course, every time they go to work they reveal their lack of faith that the Lord will provide for them.
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True. I always liked this extract from Scott Adams’, God’s Debris:
“Very few people believe in God,” he replied.
I didn’t see how he could deny the obvious. “Of course
they do. Billions of people believe in God.”
The old man leaned toward me, resting a blanketed
elbow on the arm of his rocker.
“Four billion people say they believe in God, but few
genuinely believe. If people believed in God, they would
live every minute of their lives in support of that belief. Rich
people would give their wealth to the needy. Everyone
would be frantic to determine which religion was the true
one. No one could be comfortable in the thought that they
might have picked the wrong religion and blundered into
eternal damnation, or bad reincarnation, or some other
unthinkable consequence. People would dedicate their lives
to converting others to their religions.
“A belief in God would demand one hundred percent
obsessive devotion, influencing every waking moment of
this brief life on earth. But your four billion so-called believers
do not live their lives in that fashion, except for a few.
The majority believe in the usefulness of their beliefs—an
earthly and practical utility—but they do not believe in the
underlying reality.”
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That’s very nice. In other words: Christians give God lip service.
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Yup!
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For some reason this reminds me of those Jews who wrap themselves in giant plastic bags when flying in commercial aircraft—apparently doing so makes flying over the graveyards six miles below somehow ‘kosher’ (if that’s the right word?).
Plays merry hell with the sensitivities of the aircrew and fellow passengers though.
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I did a post on those giant condoms!
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Me too … I wondered how they breathe within, but God obviously keeps ’em well supplied with air …
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Never thought of it that way…
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I’m still laughing 🙂
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🙂
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Ah, at last decent conversation! Great post, had me in fits!
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Thanks!
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No thank you!
How many lightning strikes does it take to kill a Lutheran?
Apparently not enough!
http://www.hometownfocus.us/news/2012-09-07/Features/Messiah_Lutheran_A_church_where_lightning_never_st.html
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Here’s another link that made me chuckle too in relation to your post…
http://www.brittonlutheranparish.com/Pastors.htm
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Great link! At least the pastor is honest, although i think he might be getting his Jupiter and Yhwh confused 🙂
Also, perhaps someone should tell him Franklin (“Lighthouses are more helpful than churches”) never actually flew a kite into a storm.
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Jupiter and Yhwh, don’t they have the same generic root anyway? These people and their details ay?
Franklin strikes me as an intelligent fellow, but perhaps not so much the bloke who made up the story about him flying a kite in an electrical storm. That and umbrellas, bad idea. I remember being in such a severe storm once, not long after it was reported on the news several incidents of people having been struck by lightning (shocking!) because they’d been obtuse enough to put up their umbrellas to protect them from what was absolutely torrential rain. Stupid fuckers!
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Ha! The audacity of some people. Surprising that we ever made it down from the trees 🙂
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Don’t know about you but I like my lofty perch! 😉
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Views certanly good
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Exactly, killer view, all the bananas you can eat, free grooming service, and all the sky can watch! What’s not to like?
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Lovely illustration!
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We do try 🙂
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And there was me thinking that religion slowly committed suicide, one of whose limbs fell off and reincarnated first into a bunch of fat hairy toffs and then into the science that we all know and love…
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Sure, that did happen, but it was an alternate universe.
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Are you sure about that? You mean alternate to your proposed one, which of course is just as likely in the great scheme of things. I’m sure Veles is proud 🙂
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Veles inhabits an odd landscape. I like to visit from time to time but its way up there on the Bizarro scale. Up is down, left is right, rabbits are unicorns, and T’s are K’s. Still, he has a kickass home theater system and we like to watch the alternate universes play out… and mess with them sometimes. He’s good like that.
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Ha… that must be what happened then, I must have turned to the wrong page in my Multiversal Encyclopaedia Brittanica… your version is of course the correct one! They really should make it into an e-book, instead of the almost infinite volumes that take up…actually I’m not really sure what room or reality their in…. maybe past the sign marked “Not this Way”
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Oh gawd no! There’d be no fun if people actually knew where they were going! What do you think the gods are, caring?
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…caring and sharing are they not? Surely?
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Erm, I keep using the wrong thread on your blog John. Sorry.
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That’s cool. Re-post it where you want it and i’ll delete that one. It deserves a good home.
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Done. We hatses nested commentses! 🙂
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🙂
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A hit! A palpable hit!
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That’s Jupiter speaking
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Looking again at the image … all churches—don’t the gods smite mosques and sinnergogues too?
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Mosquitos Argus…?
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Ouch …
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here…I’ll lend you my Genesis 3000 Fly Swatter, happy smiting!
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Have you read my post ‘Elephantasy’ by the way Argus? I think you might like it, you get a mention:
😉
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Do you suppose their insurance policy covers ‘Acts of God’?
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Oh, well played, sir! 🙂
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I agree that that was well played! Hahaha.
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The church must have been so pissed once it became apparent there were more men of science than could possibly be burned at the stake 🙂
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Christian barbecues were doomed from the beginning… the music is atrocious!
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They had lousy event planners
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The worst. Can’t dance to Gregorian Chants.
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that’s awesome!
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Cheers Morgan
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In 1984 York minster was ablaze. It was thought it had been struck by lightning or had had an electrical fault, but the idea which came to the front was it was god’s revenge. Not long before the fire David Jenkins was consecrated as bishop of Durham and he held some so-called radical views.
A Quote from wiki
David Jenkins’ selection as Bishop of Durham in 1984 was controversial due to allegations that he held heterodox beliefs. His “conjuring trick with bones” comment, about the resurrection of Christ, was criticised in particular, though some have argued that he was misquoted. The original line appears to have been “[the Resurrection] is real. That’s the point. All I said was ‘literally physical’. I was very careful in the use of language. After all, a conjuring trick with bones proves only that somebody’s very clever at a conjuring trick with bones.” [11] He had stated on other occasions his view that the resurrected Christ lacked a physical body.
Three days after his consecration as bishop on 6 July 1984, York Minster was struck by lightning, resulting in a disastrous fire which some interpreted as a sign of divine wrath at Jenkins’s appointment.[12]
Aren’t they all daft !
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I had to read that twice. My brain was telling me 1684, but 1984 kept showing up 🙂
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Is it not possible that Big G was aiming at a nearby mosque but didn’t allow enough deflection for a moving target? Don’t forget that they may be static to us but He sees the bigger picture. (And poor ol’ Fella is getting on a bit now … new glasses?)
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yes…ignore your brain. It’s true! I remember it well…the papers and tv news were full of it at the time.
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Dear John,
I wonder if you’ve heard of Katharine Jefferts Schori, brilliant biologist and oceanographer (also a pilot, so I assume she knows about lightening), Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church. A smart, very fine lady who like me finds science and religion compatible. I met her and can verify she exists. But ignore me—she’s a public figure: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/page/biography-katharine-jefferts-schori
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Religion is compatible with science with the same way that water is compatible with a leaky roof. It can squeeze nicely through the cracks, but every hole that gets fixed leaves less room for gods.
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Oh, i like that!
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I tries me best.
The god of the leaks, perhaps?
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Invokes suitable imagery of damp, dark, mildew and mold…. Yes, I think that works a charm!
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Just had to look her up. Sounds like a fine human being, more power to her… but that doesn’t make her a friend of science. The reason science and religion conflict is because they use entirely different methods of deciding what information correctly describes reality, and what is incorrect. It’s perfectly valid to use any method to come up with an idea about how reality works, including revelation. Scientists have revelations all the time, although probably not from a supernatural source. The difference is in how you decide whether it is nonsense. Religion relies on authority. If the information is from someone important (god, pope, priest, parent, bible) it is true. Science relies on falsification. If the information can be falsified, but isn’t, it isn’t “true” but rather it is temporarily and conditionally correct and useful, at least until it will later be shown to be somewhat or completely false. When that happens, it will be corrected, making it more accurate, not less.
Science, therefore, progresses by being wrong, and religion can’t possibly be wrong. Scientists attempt to correct older ideas including their own, by pointing out what is wrong with them. Religion attempts at all cost to show that it isn’t wrong, because once it is conclusively demonstrated that any detail is wrong, the whole authority house of cards collapses.
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” If the information is from someone important (god, pope, priest, parent, bible) it is true.” This is not how it’s done in the Episcopal Church, in fact Bart Erdman books are sometimes taught. I’ve heard priests say the Bible is myth, and that’s ok because myth can run deeper than true story.
Further, in my theology studies I had to bone up on simplified logic and certain math and science principles to even begin to read some texts. It’s impossible to approach Phil. of Religion w/o scientific principles in one’s context.
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I’m impressed, but you are a rare gem in the theistic world, Keene. Episcopals, though, still believe in the Abrahamic god, so their hands (although well meaning) are tied to all that nonsense.
Found this article this morning. As i was reading you came to mind. Never say never…
http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2013/02/09/yet-more-evidence-emerges-that-our-universe-is-a-grand-simulation-created-by-an-intelligent-designer/
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Link asks for a login. ?
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ok, scanned the article. I don’t know if the discovery proves anything to me I don’t already believe or that isn’t obvious: something is keeping me from falling of the edge of the earth. My body works, it heals itself, etc etc on this we all agree. I call this “God” others call it science (for me, same as God) others intelligent design. Whatever “it” is I’m glad it’s working and I’m joyful for the new discoveries out there in the Universe. I’ve always believed there’s more than one. Thanks. (BTW “Proof of Heaven” by the unbelieving neuroscientist who died and experienced otherwise an interesting case.)
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Pleasure. Not saying i believe it, but we should never cut ourselves off from potentially new information.
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That is a good visual representation!
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Cheers
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Those ain’t lightnin’ rods, they be fire and brimstone protectors, and your ass gonna be burned up if you don’t get underneath one. 🙂
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Holy umbrellas! I like it!
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@JZ
Hey, the Religious Disservice is my shtick.. 😉 Don’t be giving them ideas. 🙂
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Forgive me 🙂
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It was a beautiful sunny day
Not a gray cloud was in sight
The preacher said let’s pray
Give thanks to the Lord for light
As on their knees they knelt
Loud thunder began to sound
Hard rain begin to pelt
All words of prayer were drowned
The preacher raised his voice
Give thanks now unto our God
Sing praises and rejoice
To him for the lightning rod
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Let me hear a Hallelujah!
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Oh, my favourite heathen! And he’s Australian! Speaking of which, here’s my second favourite Australian heathen, Mr. Jim Jeffries
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He has a pretty good vocabulary. lol But I will give him another chance or two.
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Religion has not been killed. It is still alive. Revealed religion covers ethical, moral and spiritual aspects of life; science covers the physical and material. They both complement one another; they are not contradictory.
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oh that is awesome
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An oldie but a goodie 🙂
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