Christ was short and swarthy

Bumblebee, a friend in need is indeed a damned nuisance.

I spent months taking my mate back and forth 60 miles to chemo and radiotherapy and he still died.

Real human sympathy for anyone in a distressing situation.

5 weeks!
That is an agony. I pain for them.

Friends on here can be typecast, (Pun intended) but can be a fantastic release.

The Bible is a fairy tale full of contradictions. Is it not unreasonable to think that it all started as a work of fiction? After all Jediism is now a Religion accepted by law and that was fiction wasn’t it? In 2,000 years could Luke Skywalker be the next Jesus?

Regards,

kev35

Your point about the bible being peppered with contradictions is well made. I cannot remember what the two stories were but in recent years Archeological discovery has found that two of the stories in the bible are reversed chronologically. How? Because the evidence of the later story is overlain by evidence of the earlier one.

I’m not bothered about personal remarks guys,just mighty stressed at present with two aged parents in nursing care in separate locations plus the prospect of the funeral of my friend’s young daughter.It’s five weeks since she died and the coroner still hasn’t released her body,my friend’s distraught.
And we all know that a friend in need is a damn nuisance.

Bumblebee, you sound like a nice lady. Please don’t take any comments from me as personal. Be assured they’re not meant as such. I, and I think the rest of us, am/are taking the mickey(without trying to be personally offensive) out of all religions and people of faith, not individuals (unless they something really stupid!)

It’s the phrase itself,I don’t have any problem with anyone who has different beliefs or none at all as I’ve already said.
If you consider that the crucifixion was a reality and think about the physical fact of it for a minute,you might see what I mean.
Anyway,apology accepted.

Thinking of it brings out the Black humour in me. And, I’ve been off for a week to go to a funeral, yet another good person taken too early – that if there was a higher authority then he/she/it would have left them here to do more good stuff.
What with nails, horse-pulling and impaling (That must be the worst!) we have treated our felow man with a bit of sickness.

It’s the phrase itself,I don’t have any problem with anyone who has different beliefs or none at all as I’ve already said.
If you consider that the crucifixion was a reality and think about the physical fact of it for a minute,you might see what I mean.
Anyway,apology accepted.

Care to apologise for that phrase ?

To you, I will.
But why pick on my non-believing stance when there is 5 pages above me?

Strange to find this thread still alive 1 week after the nail-up celebrations have finished.

Care to apologise for that phrase ?

I have never seen any drawing or image of Allah. Maybe he was Jesus on Saturdays.
Jesus is the John Lennon look-alike from the Turin shroud (Yawn) and the Hollywood version of the story. He probably looked like Borat’s assistant for all we know.

Maybe you’d like to illustrate the story of Mohammed with a few sketches?

It was quiet for 3 days…

Strange to find this thread still alive 1 week after the nail-up celebrations have finished.

Inevitable if you believe in the resurrection.

Sure Allah’s more or less person-shaped? Guess you’re thinking of the, er, slightly less than conventional-looking Hindu Gods PeeDee?

I have never seen any drawing or image of Allah. Maybe he was Jesus on Saturdays.
Jesus is the John Lennon look-alike from the Turin shroud (Yawn) and the Hollywood version of the story. He probably looked like Borat’s assistant for all we know.

Strange to find this thread still alive 1 week after the nail-up celebrations have finished.

I was brought up with good manners – ‘Always hold the door for someone and say, ‘After you’…

As I said else where in this thread, my work takes me into Church on a regular basis I also have contracts with various religious groups.

My favourite out of all of them is our local Rector, I would also class him as a friend. He knows my views and doesn’t try to preach to or convert me to his way of thinking.

Two things I have heard him say, one made me think and the other laugh.

The first goes in line with GA’s comment.

Our rector said that god is not the person with a beard who sits on a cloud looking down on us, that’s Father Christmas, and that talking to god is praying, god talking to you is schizophrenia. This made me chuckle.

He also said that there is a misconception that god is physical in the same sense as a human being is. God, he said, is love ! All things come from love and when we leave, love stays behind with those we leave but also goes with us to the next destination. If you look at it this way then the presence of God is possible, but as love and I whole heartedly agreed with his analogy. I would like to think that death is not final and just a door to be opened and stepped through.

However his analogy hasn’t made me believe in a God, the writings contained within the bible or made me want to frequent church more than I have too. But I do believe in Barry White and the God Father of Love 🙂

In my experience, it’s not the people who talk to God that you need to worry about.

Worry about the ones who claim that he talks back to them.

In a nutshell, Stuart H, this.

Silly huh? So George Bush and his cronies weren’t neocons, and their christian beliefs had nothing to do with thier adventures abroad?

Try http://www.grist.org/article/scherer-christian/

or http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=310293&sectioncode=26

I don’t believe in conspiracy theories. George Bush said he talked to god, so did Blair.

As I said ‘It’s not a big step from there.’

That’s just silly… First, there are few truly “conservative” politicians here these days – lots of neo-cons who talk the talk but can’t walk. Also, most of those who would fit your “label” would likely be working against it coming to pass in their lifetime (not that any one person can stop something that is God’s Will from happening), rather than trying to bring it about.

Ryan

I’m not slagging americans in general, but when some of their ultra conservative christian politicians profess to believe in the apocolypse, it’s not a big step from there to thinking they’re doing gods work in trying to bring it about.