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 Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2010 10:20 pm
Okay, so I live in Souther California where it "never rains" (according to people who don't live in California). Anyway, its has been raining for the past five days now and this evening while my lover and I were driving we saw a guy by the road side holding a rather large sign that read:
"The flood is at hand. Accept Jesus as God and repent!"
Honestly, some people... *head-shake* First of all, to anyone who's ever read the Tanakh (the Old Testament), God promised that he would never flood the world again. So, this person obviously doesn't know his own religion, but aside from that...
...Five days of drizzle is NOT the end of the world!
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Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2010 10:25 pm
I generally feel pretty sorry for folks like that, on the basis that I assume they're actually crazy.
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Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 8:57 pm
Haha! I was just about to make a thread when I logged on about something similar to this. The majority of my family are all some denomination of Christianity and so it confuses and irritates me at the same time as to how little they understand their own religion.
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Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 8:59 pm
There's this awesome, disturbing doco with Tony Robinson about "teh end-tahmers". I forget what it's called. But it's on google video.
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Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 9:19 pm
violet_crane Haha! I was just about to make a thread when I logged on about something similar to this. The majority of my family are all some denomination of Christianity and so it confuses and irritates me at the same time as to how little they understand their own religion.
I really don't want to turn this into a "lets hate of Christianity" thread (although, looking back that's what my OP does sound like. sweatdrop Sorry.) I feel this article from Cracked.com is relevant:
5 Things You Won't Find in the Bible
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Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 10:19 pm
I got what you mean. I didn't think you were bashing Christians in this thread if it's any consultation.
Yeah the person you describe really doesn't understand his scripture.
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Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 10:29 pm
rmcdra I got what you mean. I didn't think you were bashing Christians in this thread if it's any consultation. Yeah the person you describe really doesn't understand his scripture.
Thank you, that is a comfort to hear.
I actually started this thread to kvetch about the ridiculous conclusions people reach whenever something even slightly out of the ordinary. Like back when gay-marriage was made legal (for like that week) here in California we had a little tornado of sorts. Well, just a few days later some woman was posting on a message board that the tornado was God's punishment for making gay-marriage legal.
(Another Christian example, damn, I'm really making myself out to be an a**.)
Anyway, ridiculous conclusions!
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Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 12:22 am
lol again no worries. Seriously why do they expect s**t like this? Book of Revelations? If they understood history then they would realize it was a satire against Nero. Personally I think it's a text describing allegorically the process of becoming a saint or receiving gnosis but that's just mho on that matter. Besides, God in Christian doesn't create natural disasters to punish people. There's even a passage explicitly saying that. Luke 9 51When the days were approaching for His ascension, He was determined to go to Jerusalem; 52and He sent messengers on ahead of Him, and they went and entered a village of the Samaritans to make arrangements for Him. 53But they did not receive Him, because He was traveling toward Jerusalem. 54When His disciples James and John saw this, they said, "Lord, do You want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them [, just as Elijah did]?"
55But He turned and rebuked them, [and said, "You do not know what kind of spirit you are of;
56for the Son of Man did not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them."] And they went on to another village. Boom right there mother ********. You know what that means? All of those a** tards going on about how "God is punishing you for blah, blah, blah..." don't know what the ******** they are talking about. The Old Testament is called "Old" in Christianity for a reason.
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Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 2:14 pm
Sometimes there's really nothing you can do but shake your head and walk away.
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Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 10:31 pm
Renkon Root I really don't want to turn this into a "lets hate of Christianity" thread Haha! Sorry, I didn't for it seem that way. I have nothing against them at all. It's just that ever since I was younger, I would hear preachers and other Christians say things that completely contradicted the bible and/or spout complete nonsense that had no basis in the bible at all.
But yeah, didn't mean to help start it down that road. sweatdrop
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Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2010 8:43 am
Sanguina Cruenta There's this awesome, disturbing doco with Tony Robinson about "teh end-tahmers". I forget what it's called. But it's on google video. It's called "The Doomsday Code" and this guy id full of the crazy. On topic a couple months ago I went to the post office and out front were two guys with a big poster of Obama with a Hitler mustache. I made the mistake of looking and they called me over to talk. I said "No thanks I'm a democrat, I voted for Obama so I don't think we have anything to discuss." The man replied "We're democrats too we just know that Obama is evil." I didn't even know what to say to this guy so I shook my head and kept walking. I'm still totally dumbfounded by the exchange. Another time someone on gaia friended me and then tried to convert me to the "light". It was pretty funny especially since he/she wouldn't address any of my concerns regarding his stances on abortion, women in the priesthood, gay rights, and ***** within the Catholic church which I'm still waiting for an action plan on. They just kept saying that God loved me and I needed to let Him in to guide my life.
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Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2010 12:35 pm
I hear Cali has been getting some bad mudslides. But that happens a good bit from the earth quakes already.
My brother lives in Vegas and they have been plagued by bad drivers... I hear that not many people in Cali or Nevada know how to drive in rain. Like people in the south don't know how to drive in snow......
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Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2010 12:37 pm
Renkon Root rmcdra I got what you mean. I didn't think you were bashing Christians in this thread if it's any consultation. Yeah the person you describe really doesn't understand his scripture.
Thank you, that is a comfort to hear.
I actually started this thread to kvetch about the ridiculous conclusions people reach whenever something even slightly out of the ordinary. Like back when gay-marriage was made legal (for like that week) here in California we had a little tornado of sorts. Well, just a few days later some woman was posting on a message board that the tornado was God's punishment for making gay-marriage legal.
(Another Christian example, damn, I'm really making myself out to be an a**.)
Anyway, ridiculous conclusions!
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Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2010 4:13 pm
As if the picket sign wasn't bad, but his grammar was too. =3= "Accept Jesus as God" - Jesus isn't God, he's the son of, which doesn't technically make him one. Kinda like Heracles or Perseus were the sons of Zeus, but that didn't make them Gods...
I say send him up hear to Canada, all the snow will make him think the Ice Age is coming back again.
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Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2010 5:00 pm
broken_bleeding_angel As if the picket sign wasn't bad, but his grammar was too. =3= "Accept Jesus as God" - Jesus isn't God, he's the son of, which doesn't technically make him one. Kinda like Heracles or Perseus were the sons of Zeus, but that didn't make them Gods... I say send him up hear to Canada, all the snow will make him think the Ice Age is coming back again. Actually Jesus is considered to be God. Or one part of the whole that is God anyway.
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