God Told Me To Ring The Bells Every Day at 7am!
Aug 21, 2007 News
He must have heard god’s voice, it must have told him that annoying the shit out of his neighbors was going to make more people want to go to church.. makes sense!
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSL1692459620070817
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A Dutch priest has been fined 5,000 euros ($6,800) for ringing his church bells too loudly in the morning.
The Catholic priest began ringing the bells at just after seven in the morning soon after arriving in Tilburg about six months ago, a spokesman for the town council said.
This prompted dozens of complaints from residents and the council in the southern town agreed the priest was breaking the rules.
“The priest can ring his bells whenever he likes but he has to keep within noise regulations. People don’t appreciate it,” the spokesman said.
The priest risks further fines if he continues.
“We are still trying to find ways to make him stop,” the spokesman said
Iraq War Must Go On! God Says So!
Aug 18, 2007 News
God must have spoken to him.
Defense contractor openly using God to sell war in Iraq
A major defense contractor for the military and Homeland Security claimed that the United States is morally obliged to maintain a permanent presence in Iraq for the sake of God.
“If we stay and rebuild Iraq, we will demonstrate to the world that we remain the best force for good in the world,” Charles Patricoff, Sr. Contract Manager for Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp, said. “More importantly, we as Christians can better influence that region for the Kingdom of God.”
Patricoff pointed out that the American Civil War was more unpopular than the current war in Iraq and 630,000 men died during the fight to end slavery and gain liberty for African-Americans.
“Look at how we helped rebuild Germany and Japan after World War II,” he added. “Because of the good we did there and are doing in Iraq, I don’t believe we should ever leave Iraq.”
Ball Aerospace, based in Boulder, Colorado, manufactures spacecraft, lasers, tactical instruments & sensors, and other components is part of the team that supports the missile defense system initiated by President George W. Bush.
The defense contractor reported 2006 sales of $6.6 billion and employs 15,500 people.
I can’t heaaaaaar you! Nah nah nah nah
Aug 17, 2007 Funny Stuff
Haha, saw a delightful ad for creationist products at AtheistNation.net. Good Stuff. :D
When People Die, It’s Never God’s Fault
Aug 17, 2007 News
I always love it how god is always attributed and thanked for all the good things that happen in the world, but never blamed for anything bad that happens (because he works in myyyysterious waaaaays).. especially not a massive earthquake that brings down the roof of your church on top of your head killing dozens. I mean, why blame him, it’s clearly not his fault, I personally blame the gays and other degenerates, they’re clearly the ones at fault here.
Faith unshaken after mourners killed in Peru church collapse
PISCO, Peru (CNN) — Five elderly nuns huddled early Friday outside the ruins of a church that had stood for centuries, their dark shawls tightly wrapped around their shoulders.
The nuns were standing at the edge of the ruins of the San Clemente church in downtown Pisco, waiting for word on two of their sisters who were buried in the rubble.
The parish priest, a robust Spaniard in his 60s, accompanied the nuns. The group quietly observed rescue workers dig through mounds of stones and upturned tiles.
The priest said the church was more than 300 years old. He still couldn’t understand how the entire roof collapsed on hundreds of worshippers who were attending a funeral Mass when Wednesday’s 8.0-magnitude quake struck.
I couldn’t understand how this man and these women of the cloth could remain so calm, their faith so apparently unshaken while they contemplated the ruins of the church and the loss of people so dear to them. I asked them about that faith.
“It’s difficult times like this that it exists,” the priest said.
The group spent hours waiting in the dark, cold night and into the morning never questioning — simply accepting what was and never doubting that their church would some day be rebuilt.
The parish church says there could be 60 people buried under the rubble, including the entire church choir and 15 members of the immediate family of the person whose life was being celebrated during the funeral mass.
To Arms! It’s A War Against Religion!
Aug 17, 2007 News
Alright all you atheists and secularists, we’re apparently at war against xmas, everyone gets a grenade.
Republican Presidential Candidate Ron Paul’s Take on the WAR ON RELIGION ™.
As we celebrate another Yuletide season, it’s hard not to notice that Christmas in America simply doesn’t feel the same anymore. Although an overwhelming majority of Americans celebrate Christmas, and those who don’t celebrate it overwhelmingly accept and respect our nation’s Christmas traditions, a certain shared public sentiment slowly has disappeared. The Christmas spirit, marked by a wonderful feeling of goodwill among men, is in danger of being lost in the ongoing war against religion.
Through perverse court decisions and years of cultural indoctrination, the elitist, secular Left has managed to convince many in our nation that religion must be driven from public view. The justification is always that someone, somewhere, might possibly be offended or feel uncomfortable living in the midst of a largely Christian society, so all must yield to the fragile sensibilities of the few. The ultimate goal of the anti-religious elites is to transform America into a completely secular nation, a nation that is legally and culturally biased against Christianity.
This growing bias explains why many of our wonderful Christmas traditions have been lost. Christmas pageants and plays, including Handel’s Messiah, have been banned from schools and community halls. Nativity scenes have been ordered removed from town squares, and even criticized as offensive when placed on private church lawns. Office Christmas parties have become taboo, replaced by colorless seasonal parties to ensure no employees feel threatened by a “hostile environment.” Even wholly non-religious decorations featuring Santa Claus, snowmen, and the like have been called into question as Christmas symbols that might cause discomfort. Earlier this month, firemen near Chicago reluctantly removed Christmas decorations from their firehouse after a complaint by some embittered busybody. Most noticeably, however, the once commonplace refrain of “Merry Christmas” has been replaced by the vague, ubiquitous “Happy Holidays.” But what holiday? Is Christmas some kind of secret, a word that cannot be uttered in public? Why have we allowed the secularists to intimidate us into downplaying our most cherished and meaningful Christian celebration?
The notion of a rigid separation between church and state has no basis in either the text of the Constitution or the writings of our Founding Fathers. On the contrary, our Founders’ political views were strongly informed by their religious beliefs. Certainly the drafters of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, both replete with references to God, would be aghast at the federal government’s hostility to religion. The establishment clause of the First Amendment was simply intended to forbid the creation of an official state church like the Church of England, not to drive religion out of public life.
The Founding Fathers envisioned a robustly Christian yet religiously tolerant America, with churches serving as vital institutions that would eclipse the state in importance. Throughout our nation’s history, churches have done what no government can ever do, namely teach morality and civility. Moral and civil individuals are largely governed by their own sense of right and wrong, and hence have little need for external government. This is the real reason the collectivist Left hates religion: Churches as institutions compete with the state for the people’s allegiance, and many devout people put their faith in God before their faith in the state. Knowing this, the secularists wage an ongoing war against religion, chipping away bit by bit at our nation’s Christian heritage. Christmas itself may soon be a casualty of that war.
Storage Space Shrinking Faster Than Her Right To Choose!
Aug 16, 2007 Funny Stuff, News
I dunno, I kinda laughed at that billboard. If I was their advertising team however, I’d have picked a less touchy subject for fear of pissing off half my potential customers. They should take note, mixing religion, politics and business never works out.
http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_227221809.html
NEW YORK They’re ads you may have seen around the New York City. They’re supposed to be promoting storage, but they have a political and comical edge to them.
But their latest ad doesn’t have too many people laughing.
Its billboards have always been edgy, but has Manhattan Mini Storage gone over the edge?
The ad causing controversy depicts a coat hanger and takes a stance on abortion, along with the slogan: “Your closet space is shrinking as fast as her right to choose.”
Needless to say, it didn’t take long for the backlash to come.
“These billboards, we think they’re absolutely disgusting,” said Kiera McCaffrey of the Catholic League.
“Or one thing, it’s strange enough that this company feels the need to advertise their pro-abortion stance on their billboards for mini-storage units, but the fact that they have to do it in so vile a way.”
Message Board
Aug 15, 2007 News
Yeah, I was noticing a lot of back and forth going on on the site’s commenting system.. so why not have a forum to do that?
Feel free to start flame wars, I’m a very liberal moderator. The only thing I don’t tolerate is spamming and posting disgusting pictures.
irReligion Message Board have fun. :)
Love Thy Neighbor
Aug 14, 2007 Funny Stuff
I would highlight everything that’s wrong with this letter.. but I figure it’s just funnier to post it and let you laugh/be outraged.
Proof Evolution Didn’t Happen
Aug 12, 2007 News
If it did, the guy at the end would have gotten pissed off.
I want to join this damn church!
Aug 11, 2007 News
Here’s a good laugh.. :D
A grumpy old man walks into a local First Baptist Church and says to the secretary, “I wanna join this damn church.”
The astonished woman replies, “I beg your pardon, sir. I must have misunderstood you. What did you say?”
“Listen up, dammit. I said I want to join this damn church!”
“I’m very sorry sir, but that kind of language is not tolerated in this church.” The secretary leaves her desk and goes into the pastor’s study to inform him of her situation. The pastor agrees that the secretary does not have to listen to that foul language. They both return to her office and the pastor asks, “Sir, what seems to be the problem here?”
“There IS no damn problem!,” the man says. “Looky here, I just won $200 million bucks in the damn lottery and I want to join this damn church to get rid of some of this damn money.”
“I see,” said the pastor. “And is this bitch giving you a hard time?”