http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=dujour&div=214

QuoteThe authors of the statement remind that PACE at its April session plans to discuss rights of various minorities, especially sexual, and that "major part of European deputies propose that all states of the Council of Europe should introduce a subject on peculiarities of homosexual behavior in the school curriculum."

"Is it possible that once Christian Europe has forgotten the Holy Scripture and the destiny of Sodom and Gomorrah?" the experts wonder urging deputies of Russia, Ukraine and other Orthodox states to oppose such attempts.

(I'm doubly insulted, not only as a man married to another man, but also as a heathen, and Heathenry is not inherently racist as they suggest!)

Why do all of these religious people label anything and everything as "god's wrath"? It's called nature, you morons.

Give me a freaking break.  Haiti because they made a pact with the devil.  And now Iceland.

They are such losers.

I keep thinking "you know.. if god's so pissed he wants to really show off his wrath... wouldn't he you know... Kill people?... instead of just making them dusty?"

I mean, it just seems similar to writing "hate mail" where the worst thing you say is "I'm not too fond of you, don't take it personally".

"Oh Noes! My flight's delayed! I must repent my sins!" just seems silly.

Ash that delays international travel just seems.... well.... Less than a powerful display of divine rage!

Also you would figure that an omnipotent being such as God would not have to speak in signs such as volcanoes.  That is so first century!

I mean he could simply write a billboard twelve miles high and twenty miles long that says:
I"M FCKING PISSED AND I'M COMING DOWN THERE TO KICK SOME ASS!!!

Though, I think that even with that subtle a message, we'd still have some clown not be able to figure it out...


-Sandy

Sandy, you know that most folk will point fingers at "the other guy" as reason why god's incoming even with that message.

If Ye Almighty God Je-F-ckin'-Hovah Up There In The Sky were really and truly feeling murderous, wouldn't They make it completely invisible and undetectable, and sprinkle the airplane-sinking dust from the heavens instead of spouting it in massive, extremely visible plumes from the Earth? I mean, really. Fer realz, people!

Give 'em a break!  This is just another opportunity to get all those people on the fence, who are sneaking out the doors at church, and corral them back into the pews with a little fear of the fire and brimstone.  It's a time honored tradition that's been proven very effective over the millennium.

At least our "angry face" is natural!



(Mind you, that photo is over a week old, it doesn't have a face anymore, now it's just one big crater, not three.)

Allthough... a face out of the ground that spews fire seems more like "the enemy" than yhvh.

I understand that there was this bloke in Galilee who got into strife with the religious establishment a while back.....
Anyway, I wouldn't complain if I had to spend an extra week in Paris or London, and I bet the sunsets are gorgeous as well.

You have got to remember, these are the same religious elements that it took quite nearly 1500 years for them to accept that the Earth was round and that the Earth also was not the center of the universe!


Dawn

More importantly, even though these people use religion, they are politically motivated.

We have seen this repeatedly. People claiming they are killing to deliver democracy, never forget the 'Freedom Loving people of Kuwait', there are politically motivated thugs claiming to be Muslims yet behaving against all of the basic tennats of Islam.

What we can learn here is that some people will use anything to get power and attention.

Best ignored.

Quote from: spacial on April 23, 2010, 01:29:36 PM
Best ignored.

Uuuuuhm no... best called on their idiocy methinks.
Ignoring them leaves 'em unquestioned when naive people come around.

Quote from: Miniar on April 23, 2010, 06:49:07 AM
Sandy, you know that most folk will point fingers at "the other guy" as reason why god's incoming even with that message.

Yeah the same way that kids will blame each other when their parent yells the same thing at them...

"It wasn't me it was him!!!!"

-Sandy

I always kinda wanted to catch those kids. Nobody, not me, IDK, and somebody. I grew to really get annoyed at those kids.

Sadly we cannot ignore these cretins, we have to respond in letters to the newspapers to remind people of scientific proof. Otherwise they gain power, some can even reach high office GWB for example.

As a case in point, we have had a series of letters in the local press concerning a young boy who 'drowned' and was clinically dead (which BTW is a poor term), his dead Grand mother sent him back, according to the child. It has become a debate between atheists and religious people over the proof of heaven. No one has discussed modern medical retrieval technology. Even though the ER units advertise to people that if they think their friend is dead from a drug overdose, don't abandon them, let an ER unit (by ambulance etc) know, because we can raise some of the 'dead'. No spiritual  miracles involved.

JMO
Cindy


Cindy

I wil accept that they are experts on the Orthodox Church,  but I don't believe they are likely to be experts in the field of Vulcanology.

I like Miniar's point , it's like God giving the Egyptians a plague of dandruff! or cursing the Pharoah with a bald spot!

Quote from: justmeinoz on April 24, 2010, 03:46:19 AM
I wil accept that they are experts on the Orthodox Church,  but I don't believe they are likely to be experts in the field of Vulcanology.

I like Miniar's point , it's like God giving the Egyptians a plague of dandruff! or cursing the Pharoah with a bald spot!

We do need Monty Python to be reborn

So, first "immodest" women cause earthquakes in Iran, and now homosexuals are causing volcanoes to erupt in Iceland?   

Makes you wonder, if God is that pissed, why have there been no earthquakes on the French Riviera, or volcanic eruptions in San Fransisco? He's not been very good at hitting his targets, has he?

She's probably laughing too much to hit Tehran or Rome!