The Funny Side of Religion

Galvasean · 18-06-2011 8:21pm

5 people who started religions just to get laid:
http://www.cracked.com/article_18885_5-people-who-started-religions-just-to-get-laid.html?wa_user1=5&wa_user2=Sex&wa_user3=article&wa_user4=recommended

Not a bad idea...

Pygmalion · 19-06-2011 2:34pm

Coriolanus · 19-06-2011 3:37pm

Galvasean · 19-06-2011 6:12pm

ForeskinMan accused of being anti-Semitic
http://thedailyedge.thejournal.ie/comic-book-hero-foreskin-man-criticised-as-anti-semitic-158714-Jun2011/

Can't imagine why...

MagicMarker · 21-06-2011 12:49pm

robindch · 21-06-2011 12:57pm

^^^ Weird -- where did that come from?

Turtwig · 21-06-2011 1:02pm

robindch wrote: »

^^^ Weird -- where did that come from?

YLYL

recedite · 21-06-2011 1:09pm

God's a big fan of the Beatles....but unbaptised babies; not so much

fontanalis · 21-06-2011 1:37pm

robindch wrote: »

^^^ Weird -- where did that come from?

I saw it on pz myers blog and he reckons it came from an old irish catholic school book.

coffee_cake · 21-06-2011 1:40pm

no way :eek::eek::eek::eek:

The Mad Hatter · 21-06-2011 1:53pm

Yes, except in the original, the top step rather creepily says "Baptized baby". Link to details here.

robindch · 21-06-2011 3:52pm

Are there any other examples of this kind of stuff around?

I a few years back, finding a few 'lives of the saints' type of books back home, and jeez, they were morbid and sad. One I vaguely recall described two kids whose mum died or was sent to a home for the sinful, the soldier dad went on the booze, leaving the authorities to send the slightly older boy to one orphanage and the girl, perhaps four years old, to a convent orphanage in Cork somewhere. The nuns did the religious thing, so she was made pray, go to mass etc, etc. At some point, the girl started acting up and was initially suspected of satanic possession and was beaten for it, but subsequently, the religious authorities realized that she was actually receiving visions and they began to treat her as a saint. She died a few months after this happened, perhaps a year after entering the orphanage.

In my minds eye, I like to think that the girl was smart enough to figure out the nature of the fools she was with, and use that to her advantage. It's better than the alternative, that an unloved child was split from her family who didn't care, shoved into a dank convent filled with obsessed, sexless women, abused, then turned into a propaganda image, before she died at around the same age as my kid is now.

Certainly, this appalling book paints her as nothing but a saint, but reading in between the lines, the story is hopelessly heartbreaking.

fontanalis · 21-06-2011 5:09pm

http://famousdeadmormons.com/index.php

liamw · 21-06-2011 11:38pm

The Mad Hatter wrote: »

Yes, except in the original, the top step rather creepily says "Baptized baby". Link to details here.

The steps give it away really

mikhail · 22-06-2011 11:33am

liamw wrote: »

The steps give it away really

The purpose of a religious 'test' is not to discover what you know but to reinforce unquestioning belief. In that sense, the steps serve their purpose by prompting the 'correct' answer.

liamw · 22-06-2011 2:30pm

mikhail wrote: »

The purpose of a religious 'test' is not to discover what you know but to reinforce unquestioning belief. In that sense, the steps serve their purpose by prompting the 'correct' answer.

I know. I was trying to be funny :pac: