Re: Biblical matters
Posted: Mon May 16, 2016 2:45 pm
Aye, not to worry, I've just cleaned my glasses.Russ wrote:This one Baggy?
Bless you my son.
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Aye, not to worry, I've just cleaned my glasses.Russ wrote:This one Baggy?
Whippings and stonings from earthlings are only chicken feed Baggy. The ever loving God has an eternity of pain and suffering planned for yourself and your wife. Repent now and reach out to Jesus who will intervene to save you from this hell. I think he is an Ulsterman so you should have little difficulty tracking him down.BaggyTrousers wrote: Can anybody help? What's a man to do?
I'll tell you what Shan, I may be a bit of a gobshite from time to time but Mrs Trousers is a saintly woman just lacking a belief system. If God wants to punish her for being an outstandingly good person he must be a worse gobshite than me.Shan wrote:Whippings and stonings from earthlings are only chicken feed Baggy. The ever loving God has an eternity of pain and suffering planned for yourself and your wife. Repent now and reach out to Jesus who will intervene to save you from this hell. I think he is an Ulsterman so you should have little difficulty tracking him down.BaggyTrousers wrote: Can anybody help? What's a man to do?
We had that conversation when my daughter decided to opt out of RE in the 6th form. (She would have done it much earlier but thought she might as well get the GCSE) Had the feckin chaplain on the phone ffs. They backed down in the endnamron wrote:Aye there's the rub...A lot of people believe to avoid everlasting suffering. Most religions have a double lock choke hold of guilt and consequence which is highly unsavoury, especially when meted out to the young and impressionable.My Wife and I were discussing this subject tonight with regard to our two children and sending them to school where they will no doubt encounter some form of RE / brainwashing. I am gearing myself self up for some frank conversations with the head of school in September and hope for his sake I can keep my cool .
In most of the RE I remember at school there was a 'We are right and all the others are wrong' attitude. World religions we not studied. I remember going to a BaHAi meeting which is supposed to be all encompassing but when the speaker decried the Hindus for worshipping "Monkey ,Donkey Elephant Gods" I made a swift rebuttal followed by a rather blaise exit .big mervyn wrote:We had that conversation when my daughter decided to opt out of RE in the 6th form. (She would have done it much earlier but thought she might as well get the GCSE) Had the feckin chaplain on the phone ffs. They backed down in the endnamron wrote:Aye there's the rub...A lot of people believe to avoid everlasting suffering. Most religions have a double lock choke hold of guilt and consequence which is highly unsavoury, especially when meted out to the young and impressionable.My Wife and I were discussing this subject tonight with regard to our two children and sending them to school where they will no doubt encounter some form of RE / brainwashing. I am gearing myself self up for some frank conversations with the head of school in September and hope for his sake I can keep my cool .
Even if they do not actually teach it, the God Mafia have an insidious influence on schools in the area of teaching appointments. OK it's a long time ago but I recall my sister going to an interview, Comber I believe but could be wrong only to be told by a girl she had been to college with, that the other lassie had already been promised the job by her minister.mikerob wrote:Same as the US, religious education isn't permitted in state schools.
However the US has one of the highest rates of church attendance in the western world so clearly you don't need schools to be indoctrinated into a particular belief.
That really only matters if one believes in an entity with the capability to punish somebody in an afterlife........or perhaps if one believes such a supreme entity would also punish somebody during their earthly life.BaggyTrousers wrote:
I'll tell you what Shan, I may be a bit of a gobshite from time to time but Mrs Trousers is a saintly woman just lacking a belief system. If God wants to punish her for being an outstandingly good person he must be a worse gobshite than me.
BaggyTrousers wrote:
Anyway given that my "insidious" thread will fade into oblivion, I am reposting this nugget here for some kindly mentalist to explain away:
Why are we repeatedly lied to with "madeupshit".
If you are a Christian you already believe some crazy brad pitt. It's easy then to use it to believe some other deluded nonsense.big mervyn wrote:Briiliantly entertaining mad woman on Crawley arguing for Brexit from (her) Christian Conservative Biblical perspective. Reminded me of Paisley in his pomp qouting Revelations, beasts with 7 heads and 12 horns (or was it t'other way around ) and relating it all to the EEC and papish antichrists. Great stuff
Some thoroughly reasonable sounding chap from the Church of Scotland was putting the other point of view.
Where else would you get it? (apart from the Dumbfuckistan states in America obviously).