August 18, 2006

The True Christian Church of Christ, like other Xian domatists, takes care in quoting the scripture . Less than serious is the treatment. Is this site an attempt at humor against the hatred of fundamentalism only or does it seem to implicate all Xians? References to Reginald Finley and Matthew Shepard (don't forget the shadow of Fred Phelps). Of course, Creationism gets a treatment.

"If people need their god belief to get through their pain, so be it. The biggest difficulty I have is when people in the political arena who have fundamentalist beliefs try to change laws to suit their fundamentalist belief systems." - Reginald Finley Hateful or retaliatory?

posted by InsolentChimp 18 years ago
  • ...dogmatists... d'ohgma...
  • This might be slightly off topic, but I just wanted to pop in and say that it was indeed I that killed Jon Benet Ramsey.
  • We knew that.
  • But you didn't know that it was accidental and occured while we were playing a game of "Let's Frame Mommy and Daddy".
  • I had a psychic vision of the killer.
  • The time has come when God is pouring out His spirit on all flesh and the Saints are readying the way for His Millenium. Then we'll see who's laughing, sunshine.
  • Nunia, your revelation has been sabotaged! It's a conspiracy, I tellya!
  • 'God' or 'gods' are primarily a creation of humankind's (from earliest history) desire to survive; as an explanation for suffering, and a search for a reason for natural phenomena that these days, is understood via the 'Scientific Model'. 'Organised religion' has also been a most effective and efficient means of controlling the largest number of people with the minimum amount of effort, and for a maximum return. That humankind continues to 'worship' gods created thousands of years in the past is more a matter for wonder than that any person might have little or no 'god consciousness'. Also worth a comment is that characteristics of past gods that appear to be most advertised and/or valued in the now (of the gods who have largish and vociferous numbers of 'followers' in the now) might be considered to be those of vengefulness, cruelty, murder as a form of sacrifice to said god, and the acquisition of material goods. Humankind seeks a 'god' because our brains are structured to do so. Evolution and natural selection has enhanced this particular section of brain development due, for the most part, to the fact that the worshippers of a particular god tended to stick together; thus ensuring the survival of the group/family and thus of the species: Domain - Eukarya Kingdom - Animalia Phylum - Chordata Subphylum - Vertebrata Class - Mammalia Subclass - Eutheria Order - Primates Suborder - Haplorhini Family - Hominidae Genus - Homo Species - H. sapiens (Or is that - H. erectus ? ;-) ) Survival of the species is, without doubt, 'hard-wired' into the brain. Those who behave in ways and/or commit acts that are contrary to this survival are either viewed as a threat, or are a threat to the continuation of the family/genus/species. And we all understand the word "heinous." USA TV police/crime investigation series' use that word with tedious regularity. Perhaps it is more that a measure of one's humanity lies within a desire that one pursue development as a spiritual being (with all the positive qualities that implies) rather than seek for some ancient and smelly goat herder's small concept of a 'god overseer.' That we are able to love (agape) nurture, feel and practice compassion, that we desire to heal and give of ourselves to others is human, not god-like. Add that, if one perceives in one's self a measure of conceit and hypocrisy, this presupposes that one also has the humility to do so; a quality which, while espoused by many organised religious bodies, is most glaringly absent in the majority of their followers.
  • Dude. I totally agape you.
  • Agrope? That sounds erosic.
  • You know, the sad thing is how similar this website IS to "legitimate" fundamentalist Christian websites. They have better pictures. The bullshit however, is identical.
  • Also, my ability to spot the subtle differences is obviously broken. Is Abiezer kidding? I can't tell. I really wish there was an afterlife though, so I could go up to people like Phelps who would be forced to do community service to make up for their temporal sins and say Ha Ha!
  • Nunia, your revelation has been sabotaged! It's a conspiracy, I tellya! Yeah. It's like none of us psychics can get a good schtick with the fuzz anymore. They're relying more on these "confession" things and something called "evidence." Sounds like a load of crap to me. I think Jim Henson is behind it.
  • Is Abiezer kidding? Mostly Mord. I'm not a Christian, but I'm a sucker for the visceral appeal of the language of the redemptionist tradition. That comment was a semi-quote on the power of the chiliastic vision threaded through Western European history, lifted from Norman Cohn's 'The Pursuit of the Millenium', which I'd just finished re-reading.
  • Shechem's Shortening is one of my favorite bible stories.
  • That story makes the baby Jeezus galumph.
  • Peel me agape.