The Funny Side of Religion

robindch

A friend emailed this original ditty to me. No comments about gay lava

All things harsh and hideous,
All scourges slight and fell,
All things mean and murderous,
The Lord made them as well.

Each little germ that plagues us,
Each little bug that stings,
He made their garish symptoms,
He made their droning wings:
All things harsh and hideous,…

Each bodily enormity,
Each cerebral murrain,
He made every deformity,
He made each cankered brain:
All things harsh and hideous,…

The rich man on the fiddle,
The poor man on the dole,
He sends them ills appropriate
To gentleman and prole:
All things harsh and hideous,…

The ague and the palsy,
The strangulating wheeze,
The ulcer and the cancer
That kill by slow degrees:
All things harsh and hideous,…

The hurricane and whirlwind,
The river flooding out,
The famine and starvation
That follow upon drought:
All things harsh and hideous,…

The earthquake and eruption,
The lava running gay,
The tidal wave and mudslide
That sweep all life away:
All things harsh and hideous,…

He gave us nerves to feel them
And minds that we might know
How pitiless His Power
That ordered all things so:

All things harsh and hideous,
All scourges slight and fell,
All things mean and murderous,
The Lord made them as well.

CiaranMT

robindch wrote: »

Cairo newspaper launches campaign against Muhammad cartoons. Millions of westerners remained unmoved, though some grabbed popcorn.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-19721654

This one's actually quite good:

Sarky

If all the rioters did that instead, the world would be a much better place.

muppeteer

Not sure if funny, interesting or hazard. Oh well, can we have a dawww.






Via Reddit/imgur

kylith

Sarky wrote: »

If all the rioters did that instead, the world would be a much better place.

Absolutely. Fight cartoons with cartoons, and when we're not bothered maybe they'll realise that ink on paper is just ink on paper.

muppeteer wrote: »

Not sure if funny, interesting or hazard. Oh well, can we have a dawww.






Via Reddit/imgur

How terribly sad.

Mr. CooL ICE

kylith wrote: »

Absolutely. Fight cartoons with cartoons, and when we're not bothered maybe they'll realise that ink on paper is just ink on paper.

The pen is mightier than the sword of islam.





Hmm, that sounded funnier in my head

FouxDaFaFa

muppeteer wrote: »

Not sure if funny, interesting or hazard.

That is so deeply sad. (And ingenious).

kylith

PopePalpatine

Gbear

Delirium

Turtwig

koth wrote: »

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mb1modBnzG1r8w5ioo1_400.jpg

Nah, Satan is too much of a pacifist.

Cienciano

From irvine welsh on twitter:

The only reason Christianity is less dangerous than Islam is because a lot more "christians" know that their religion is utter nonsense

robindch

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Sulla Felix

Holy fsck, is the whole Kolob thing actually a Mormon thing? Admittedly my entire knowledge of the religion encompasses that South Park episode and this forum, so it makes it kind of hard to distinguish the "real" from the fake.

The Mad Hatter

Anyone else notice what you get if you spell Kolob backwards?

Bannasidhe

The Mad Hatter wrote: »

Anyone else notice what you get if you spell Kolob backwards?

Have now

5uspect

Sure isn't BSG heavily influenced by Mormonism? Might explain the rubbish third and fourth season. (Excluding the awesome third season intro ofc)

kylith

Sulla Felix wrote: »

Holy fsck, is the whole Kolob thing actually a Mormon thing? Admittedly my entire knowledge of the religion encompasses that South Park episode and this forum, so it makes it kind of hard to distinguish the "real" from the fake.

ISTR that all the stuff in South Park is what they really believe. I do know that it's not all they believe, not by a long shot. I must admit that it took me some time to fully believe the holy underpants thing.

Turtwig

Wait, hang on! You mean the holy underpants thing is actually serious!?:eek:
(I'd always thought it was one of those jokes like baby eating atheists, kind of things.)
It's almost like someone just smacked me on the face with a cold towel.

Bannasidhe

Jernal wrote: »

Wait, hang on! You mean the holy underpants thing is actually serious!?:eek:
(I'd always thought it was one of those jokes like baby eating atheists, kind of things.)
It's almost like someone just smacked me on the face with a cold towel.

What is the Holy Underpants thing?

PopePalpatine

IIRC, Mormons have to wear special underwear.

Undergod

It's called a temple garment.

Bannasidhe

PopePalpatine wrote: »

IIRC, Mormons have to wear special underwear.

Hang on- vague memories of this coming to light over some case where a woman kidnapped a Mormon...


Edit - found it! 1977 in England.

A young Mormon missionary named Kirk Anderson went missing in 1977, in Ewell, Surrey, after he was abducted from the steps of a meetinghouse of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. A few days later a freed Anderson made a report to the police that he had been abducted, driven to Devon, and imprisoned against his will, chained to a bed in a cottage, where Joyce Bernann McKinney (b. August 1949) — a former Miss Wyoming World — had abducted, attempted to seduce, and then raped him. The case became known by many sobriquets, including "The Mormon sex in chains case" and "The Case of the Manacled Mormon."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon_sex_in_chains_case

If memory serves there was much amusement at the time over the special underwear...

magicbastarder

cos it's funny when men are raped...

ShooterSF

magicbastarder wrote: »

cos it's funny when men are raped...

Niiiiiccccceeee.


(sorry but south park was in my head)

Bannasidhe

magicbastarder wrote: »

cos it's funny when men are raped...

No it's not and I never said it was.

I said at the time there was amusement when the story of the holy underwear emerged. At no point did I say I (who was all of 13 at the time) shared that amusement. But yes, in the era of the likes of the Sweeney, Bernard Manning and Benny Hill on TV people did find the idea that men are victims of rape hard to accept and it was much easier to laugh at the notion of knickers of protection.

magicbastarder

don't mind me. i'm drunk and watching metal documentaries.

Undergod

magicbastarder wrote: »

don't mind me. i'm drunk and watching metal documentaries.

"Vanadium is chiefly used in the production of high-tension bass guitar strings, for downtuning to C...", that sorta thing?