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The Hazards of Belief

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    #902
    magicbastarder
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    http://breakingnews.ie/world/faithful-banned-from-holy-site-for-activating-automatic-cameras-485828.html


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    #903
    Dades
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    magicbastarder wrote: »
    http://breakingnews.ie/world/faithful-banned-from-holy-site-for-activating-automatic-cameras-485828.html
    Holy Pork, Batman, the next time you get to thinking that the Christian or Muslim beliefs are bonkers, spare a thought for those nutty Orthodox Jews...

    "Rabbinical authorities. Making a use for themselves since the Bronze Age".


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    #904
    Dave!
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    GRAPHIC VIDEO FOLLOWS, don't watch if easily offended

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xef384fWFs


    Silly b*tch, what was she thinking wearing trousers? :rolleyes: Can't be having that


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    #905
    robindch
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    Dades wrote: »
    spare a thought for those nutty Orthodox Jews.
    The religious response to the Swine Flu, er, Mexican Flu says all that needs to be said:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0gvbw1S4Ks


    (clickthrough, btw)


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    #906
    Nailz
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    Dave! wrote: »
    GRAPHIC VIDEO FOLLOWS, don't watch if easily offended

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xef384fWFs


    Silly b*tch, what was she thinking wearing trousers? :rolleyes: Can't be having that
    That's disgusting.


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    #907
    liamw
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D8AeiAamjY


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    #908
    cavedave
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH13DY9HT1c


    Do what they say. Especially that Jesus guy!


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    #909
    Galvasean
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    A teacher in Spain is in trouble for talking abou ham in geography class. Apparently it 'offended' a Muslim pupil :confused:
    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/12/spain-muslim-family-denounces-teacher-for-talking-about-ham-in-class.html


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    #910
    magicbastarder
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    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-12073029


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    #911
    robindch
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    The latest Gallup poll carried out earlier this month shows that in the last 30 years, belief in creationism has declined to around 40% of the adult population, while belief in unguided evolution has almost doubled, to 16%.

    http://www.gallup.com/poll/145286/Four-Americans-Believe-Strict-Creationism.aspx

    The poll also showed that belief in creationism is correlated with higher levels of church attendance, membership of the Republican Party and, unsurprisingly, low levels of education.

    .


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    #912
    Galvasean
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    robindch wrote: »
    The latest Gallup poll carried out earlier this month shows that in the last 30 years, belief in creationism has declined to around 40% of the adult population, while belief in unguided evolution has almost doubled, to 16%.

    http://www.gallup.com/poll/145286/Four-Americans-Believe-Strict-Creationism.aspx

    The poll also showed that belief in creationism is correlated with higher levels of church attendance, membership of the Republican Party and, unsurprisingly, low levels of education.

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    Don't forget that 38% believe in 'theistic evolution'. Quickly, what's 38 + 16....


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    #913
    Pygmalion
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    Galvasean wrote: »
    Don't forget that 38% believe in 'theistic evolution'. Quickly, what's 38 + 16....

    I was going to ask what's 38 + 40 tbh.
    It's still 78% thinking that some kind of supernatural being had some part in creating us, whether by guiding evolution or just magicking us up out of thin air.


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    #914
    Liamario
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    I saw my mother tell my sister that she should start teaching her two year old daughter how to bless herself. This for some reason, completely freaked me out. It just felt like I was watching some cult documentary.
    The point I'm getting at is if anyone feels the same about organised religion, in that there nothing more than cults.


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    #915
    Galvasean
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    Liamario wrote: »
    The point I'm getting at is if anyone feels the same about organised religion, in that there nothing more than cults.

    Religion = Big cult IMO


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    #916
    sink
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    Hepatitis A warning issued after Christmas communion on Long Island


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    #917
    Dades
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    sink wrote: »
    Hepatitis A warning issued after Christmas communion on Long Island
    CNN wrote:
    The Nassau County Department of Health is offering vaccines to those who attended two services at Our Lady of Lourdes Church
    LOL - FAIL.


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    #918
    Canis Lupus
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    Damn beat me to it.

    Now I'm curious about this story. Does it mean that transubstantiation (what a big word) doesn't remove diseases from the bread OR was Jesus infected with hepatitis. Which is it...


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    #919
    coffee_cake
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    Long Island officials said Monday.
    How profound of them :pac:

    lol at the story though.


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    #920
    GO_Bear
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    Somewhat Relevant I think, Posted in the Mythology forum.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=67144962&postcount=1

    Even in conditions that go away naturally, and especially in serious conditions like whooping cough in infants, these kinds of beliefs which arise from hearsay and old wives tales can be dangerous.


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    #921
    Mark Hamill
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    GO_Bear wrote: »
    Somewhat Relevant I think, Posted in the Mythology forum.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=67144962&postcount=1

    Even in conditions that go away naturally, and especially in serious conditions like whooping cough in infants, these kinds of beliefs which arise from hearsay and old wives tales can be dangerous.

    Stuff like that makes me really depressed actually, depressed at how crazy and gullible some people are.


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    #922
    eblistic
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    GO_Bear wrote: »
    Somewhat Relevant I think, Posted in the Mythology forum.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=67144962&postcount=1

    Even in conditions that go away naturally, and especially in serious conditions like whooping cough in infants, these kinds of beliefs which arise from hearsay and old wives tales can be dangerous.
    The Cure Of The Burn.
    My cousin years ago pulled a pot of boiling potatoes down of the cooker and it covered him. his grandfather lived down the road and had the cure of the burn which he got from licking a lizard backwards three times. and licked my cousin from head to toe. It worked! there was one Little spot which he had missed and that sport is still there today. Since them my cousin has grown up and he himself licked a lizard backwards 3 times and now has the cure.

    This can't be serious, surely?


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    #923
    smokingman
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    eblistic wrote: »
    This can't be serious, surely?

    It can....and don't call me Shirley...

    Genuinely frightening but more common than you think. Even as a 7 year old, I'd makes jokes at my dads belief and stories of people he knew with the cure of this and that. Never would've dared make fun of his belief of zombie jews but even back then I couln't fathom how anyone would believe that kinda thing.


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    #924
    vibe666
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    eblistic wrote: »
    This can't be serious, surely?
    licked all over by an old man? someone call child services! :rolleyes:

    i posted in the thread, i wonder if i get any takers? :D
    vibe666 wrote: »
    i have the cure for gullibility.

    please come and see me.
    wait till they find out that the cure involves getting beaten round the head with a big stick until they come to their senses. :pac:


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    #925
    mikhail
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    The pope is fast becoming one of my favourite comedians.
    http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gc6BUBo5SlKbdxj7re-n91sDF5ig?docId=CNG.8ce3a15f9d99ca997a190449c8ee77b2.b1


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    #926
    Mark Hamill
    Registered Users Posts: 7,771 ✭✭✭Mark Hamill


    mikhail wrote: »
    Pope wrote:
    "I cannot remain silent about another attack on the religious freedom of families in certain European countries which mandate obligatory participation in courses of sexual or civic education," the pope said.

    So, do you think he included these families when he said that christians were the most prosected religion in the world, or are they examples of persecution? :pac:


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    #927
    magicbastarder
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    vibe666 wrote: »
    i posted in the thread, i wonder if i get any takers? :D
    unfortunately not. i added my tuppence worth, too.
    you'd think someone who has been able to cure thrush for ten years would have happened across the correct spelling of it in that time.

    to be fair to the OP, they were collecting the stories; the interest may have been academic in a folk history sense.


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    #928
    mehfesto
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    ...How do you lick a lizard 'backwards'?


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    #929
    Stercus Accidit
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    mehfesto wrote: »
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    ...How do you lick a lizard 'backwards'?

    Well, you know when you are home, watching TV, licking a lizard and having a cup of tea? Just lick the lizard the same way, except, the other way to the way you normally would.


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    #930
    mikhail
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    http://www.nwfdailynews.com/news/communion-36658-navarre-priest.html
    Navarre resident Jackie Trebesh said she was flabbergasted and irritated when a Catholic priest denied her and her daughter Holy Communion, and then had a Santa Rosa County deputy pull her over.
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    Trebesh said she and her 19-year-old daughter Rachel attended a Friday morning service and were turned away when they approached the priest to take Holy Communion.
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    According to Trebesh, she learned the reason she was denied communion was because someone at the church had seen the daughter dispose of the host, as it is called, improperly in the church parking lot.
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    “The matter of disposing of the Eucharist in an inappropriate way is a serious matter to us,” Peggy Dekeyser, the communications officer for the diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee said in confirming Trebesh’s theory.

    Trebesh said the only thing she could think of that Kelly or anyone else might have seen her daughter do was “spit out a piece of gum in the parking lot.”
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    #931
    Penn
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    mikhail wrote: »
    http://www.nwfdailynews.com/news/communion-36658-navarre-priest.html

    How could the child keep it in her mouth long enough to ge outside? Those things melt in your mouth quicker than Skips


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