The Funny Side of Religion

ShooterSF

^^^ Matthew 18:19

"Again, truly I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything they ask for, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven."

Ok just in case you actually exist up there god. I'd like for you to not exist any more. Now I just need someone to second the motion...

Bannasidhe

ShooterSF wrote: »

^^^ Matthew 18:19

"Again, truly I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything they ask for, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven."

Ok just in case you actually exist up there god. I'd like for you to not exist any more. Now I just need someone to second the motion...

Seconded!

Dades

FouxDaFaFa wrote: »

The Christians think Obama might win. There's only one thing left to do.

Pray.

Mega-pray.

Poe's Law strikes again.

I do like the simplicity of the site. Just keep scrolling for more bollocks.

ShooterSF

Bannasidhe wrote: »

Seconded!

Biblical proof for the non-existence of god! What a marvellous day.

Sofaspud

ShooterSF wrote: »

Biblical proof for the non-existence of god! What a marvellous day.

Not just biblical, SCIENCE!

kylith

actuallylike wrote: »

Sure when has that ever mattered?

True, but I do love to find out the 'truth' behind bible stories. IIRC there are several stories about a rich merchant who realised the waters were rising and hopped on a boat loaded with merchandise to ride it out.

Just like all the plagues from Exodus really could have happened, but had more to do with an underwater volcano than with any gods. I think it wiped out Minoan culture too.

Bannasidhe

ShooterSF wrote: »

Biblical proof for the non-existence of god! What a marvellous day.

So. What are we gonna talk about now?:(

Turtwig

Bannasidhe wrote: »

So. What are we gonna talk about now?:(

Pineapple.

Penn

Aenaes

FouxDaFaFa wrote: »

The Christians think Obama might win. There's only one thing left to do.

Pray.

Mega-pray.

"hundreds of scientific studies" OH, so now it suits them? It just makes you shake your head..

"With no real hope of winning, they fought. The Christian armies defeated the Muslims at Battle of Lepanto. The victory was attributed to Europe's massive group prayers."

So they didn't really need the poor knights in their superior armour who fought to their death?

Turtwig

Aenaes wrote: »

"hundreds of scientific studies" OH, so now it suits them? It just makes you shake your head..

"With no real hope of winning, they fought. The Christian armies defeated the Muslims at Battle of Lepanto. The victory was attributed to Europe's massive group prayers."

So they didn't really need the poor knights in their superior armour who fought to their death?

Not sure if you're being a Poe to a Poe or you missed the Poe.

General Relativity

Bannasidhe

Aenaes wrote: »

"With no real hope of winning, they fought. The Christian armies defeated the Muslims at Battle of Lepanto. The victory was attributed to Europe's massive group prayers."

Battle of Lepanto is it? Would that be the 1571 Battle of Lepanto by any chance starring such luminaries as Richard Bingham, 'President' of Connacht 1584-1595- a noble and Christian man who, among his many glorious deeds, hanged 3 children aged under 5 in 1586 and reduced the province to utter ruin (and by the way was an ancestor of 'Lucky' Lucan)?

*cracks knuckles* now this really is my extra-extra-specialised subject and my considered response, as a historian who is published on this exact topic, to the question 'Did Prayer win the Battle of Lepanto?' is did it F**K!

Edit - ah - was that a Poe then? It's getting harder and harder to tell....


I like pineapple - but not on pizza.

Newaglish

I thought it was a Poe purely because the website isn't nearly gaudy enough for what I would expect from a Christian pray-a-thon. The content isn't that outrageous though, I could believe it's genuine.

Bannasidhe

Newaglish wrote: »

I thought it was a Poe purely because the website isn't nearly gaudy enough for what I would expect from a Christian pray-a-thon. The content isn't that outrageous though, I could believe it's genuine.

There ought to be a law...oh...wait....

Dammit - how can we tell anymore???

Worztron

Zillah

FouxDaFaFa wrote: »

Mega-pray.

That's a really nice interface. I can't wait for them to get thousands of people to pray and God is all "nope, Obama wins". Can anyone debunk the article they link for prayer efficacy? It just confuses me a little bit with the ambiguous language in the conclusion. "Of the 23 studies, 13 (57%) yielded statistically significant treatment effects"...what does that mean? Does this study even mean anything if the dataset was too heterogeneous for a proper metastudy?

EDIT:
A little wiki trip to the Battle of Lepanto tells me that the Christian ships (it was a naval battle) had twice as many cannons as their Turkish opponents. I also find the mechanism of this prayer to be fascinating/baffling. You beg for God's intervention, and apparently if you convince him to swing things in your favour he will, supposedly, swing things just a teeny tiny bit and make it look like you could have won on your own anyway, and you still take horrific casualties, despite having the omnipotent creator of the universe on your side. This is the guy who made black holes and O-class hypergiant stars fyi.

Penn

Zillah wrote: »

EDIT:
A little wiki trip to the Battle of Lepanto tells me that the Christian ships (it was a naval battle) had twice as many cannons as their Turkish opponents. I also find the mechanism of this prayer to be fascinating/baffling. You beg for God's intervention, and apparently if you convince him to swing things in your favour he will, supposedly, swing things just a teeny tiny bit and make it look like you could have won on your own anyway, and you still take horrific casualties, despite having the omnipotent creator of the universe on your side. This is the guy who made black holes and O-class hypergiant stars fyi.

If they prayed hard enough, why did they need to fight in the first place? Surely if they prayed hard enough, God could have just stopped the Turks from advancing. Instead, God chose to allow the fighting, causing huge deaths on both sides.

And once again, God's an asshole.

Delirium

joseph brand

joseph brand

Government 1-0 god

robindch

Worztron

fitz0

pauldla

Obliq

PopePalpatine

J C wrote: »

It's accurate ... as it describes somebody who is liberal about things they don't care about ... but ultra-conservative about issues they deem to be important!!!

Can someone translate this into English?

Bannasidhe

PopePalpatine wrote: »

Can someone translate this into English?

Um...ok...it means....he/she/they are saying that....right, let me put it this way, some people are, apparently, a bit...um... lassez faire... about things that do not affect them personally but get worked up about maintaining the status quo over things that do affect them personally. I think that's what it says - as for what it means - no idea.

Turtwig

PopePalpatine wrote: »

Can someone translate this into English?

:D:D:):):):pac::D:D:eek::eek::eek::D:)

R A I N B OW

Sarky

PopePalpatine wrote: »

Can someone translate this into English?

DINOSAURS ARE A TEST IF FAITH I USED TO BE A SCEINTICIEN LOL BE SAEV BY JEBUBS