The Funny Side of Religion

Delirium · 25-01-2012 11:33pm

so the guy gets married to suppress his lust for the bear?

:P

Sarky · 26-01-2012 12:04am

bluewolf wrote: »

is that an actual ad or something
omg :eek:

Some student did it to promote absinth abstinence.

Galvasean · 26-01-2012 2:09am

Sarky wrote: »

Don't even try to deny that Pedobear crossed your mind while watching this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtBTafgam7M

Not sure if serious

UDP · 26-01-2012 3:01pm

Ricky Gervais via Twitter wrote:

Ask yourself why you don't believe in all the other gods. Your answer, is why I don't believe in yours. This endeth the religious tweets.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjI6D84ExvU

robindch · 26-01-2012 5:52pm

Archbishop to Become Born-again Scientist

http://newsthump.com/2009/03/27/archbishop-to-become-born-again-scientist/

NewsThump wrote:

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has stunned the Church of England by claiming to be a born-again scientist.

The Archbishop had warned that God will not intervene to prevent humanity from wreaking devastation on the environment, and that only science can save us now. “It appears that God doesn’t want to help us, his children. He’s happy to see them suffer a global environmental collapse. It’s almost as if He’s been reading the ‘Art of Good Parenting’ by Josef Fritzl. Or maybe He’s modelling his child care practices on Haringey Council? Let us be clear, this is no Thai massage parlour, there will be no ‘happy ending’.”

Dr Williams has been working within the church for over thirty years, but last week had a moment of blinding clarity. “I was reading this science book, and suddenly everything around me made sense,” he said. “Why should I spend a couple of hours a day talking to an invisible guy in the sky, when I know full well he’s not interesting in helping me? I could be using that time more effectively in trying to cure cancer or something. It feels like I’ve been wasting my life until this point, but finally, science has found me and welcomed me into it’s loving embrace. I’ve accepted science into my heart, and each day now has new purpose.”

Many scientific organisations have welcomed the Archbishop’s stance, but have been quick to point out that he will have to start out at the bottom of the scientific career ladder by making the tea and putting lipstick on Beagles.

Delirium · 27-01-2012 4:10pm

Turtwig · 27-01-2012 5:21pm

Sarky wrote: »

Don't even try to deny that Pedobear crossed your mind while watching this.
http://youtu.be/mtBTafgam7M

You gotta hand them credit where it is due. They haven't yet disabled the comments on the video. THAT is impressive.

BlitzKrieg · 27-01-2012 11:50pm

http://gawker.com/5879888/yes-the-romneys-converted-mitts-dead-atheist-father+in+law-to-mormonism

Gawker's substantial Mormon readership has come through for us: Two readers have sent us confirmation that Edward Davies, Mitt Romney's militantly atheist father-in-law, was indeed posthumously converted to Mormonism by his family, despite the fact that when he was alive he regarded all religions as "hogwash."
As we mentioned yesterday, Ann Romney's Welsh-born father (who Mitt mentioned in last night's debate to shore up his pro-immigrant bona fides) was an engineer, inventor, and resolute atheist who disdained all organized religion and raised his children accordingly. Davies, his son Roderick told the Boston Globe in 2007, regarded the faithful as "weak in the knees." But when Mitt began seeing Davies' daughter Ann, the Romney family launched a concerted effort to convert not only Ann but her entire family to Mormonism. And they were wildly successful: Within a year of meeting Ann, Mitt and his father had converted all three of Edward Davies' children. Days before she died in 1993, Ann Romney's mother asked to be converted as well. Edward Davies was the only member of his clan whose soul the Romneys never claimed for their church.

Until he died. According to this entry in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints' genealogical database, Davies was baptized as a Mormon at a "special family meeting" 14 months after his death: "All ordinances except sealing to spouse performed in Salt Lake Temple on 19 Nov 1993 in special family meeting," the entry says. (When we previously asked the church whether Davies had been baptized, a spokesperson told us that the information was available only to his family and church members. But it's apparently right there on the internet for those who know what to look for.)

According to our tipster, the "ordinances" performed on Davies' spectral remnants included the following:

[A] canonical series of rituals that Mormons undergo (in life or death) in order to qualify for admission to heaven, including baptism, confirmation, "washings and anointings," endowment, and, in the case of men, ordination to two levels of priesthood. The description seems to indicate that certain family members were present for all these rituals, in which a living male would have stood in "for and in behalf of" the late Mr. Davies.

A little under a year after the posthumous baptism, according to this entry at Ancestry.com, a Utah-based genealogical registry linked to the Mormon church, Edward Davies was "sealed" to his spouse for eternity in a ceremony that appears to have been performed in Atlanta, Ga.

Of course this is all empty superstition, as Davies realized. Being dead, he wasn't particularly in a place to care about whatever voodoo was performed in his name. But it's an exceedingly odd way for the Romney family to honor the memory of a man who was committed, for his entire life, to the notion that organized religion is a fraud.

The Mormon church has repeatedly been criticized for its practice of trawling for dead souls to convert to the faith. Catholic and Jewish organizations have expressed outrage when the names of dead popes and Holocaust victims have turned up on Mormon lists of the baptized. In 1995, the church pledged to "discontinue any future baptisms of deceased Jews" except for direct descendents of living Mormons, tacitly acknowledging that its creepy and weird to claim the souls of people who had no interest in Mormonism for their own. It's strange that the Romney and Davies families didn't accord Edward Davies' memory the same respect.

On one hand its really funny how petty things can get.

On the other hand, if relations of mine tried this with me I'd be pissed...wait I'd be dead. hmm