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It's all about power and the abuse there if. I agree with clock on religion. And the money plate.They all have some kind of nastiness,abuse of power and fear of telling on the leader because god. Will punish them. FearPost edited by lastexitlondon on
this song is meant to be called i got shit,itshould be called i got shit tickets-hartford 06 -0 -
mrussel1 said:tempo_n_groove said:mrussel1 said:tempo_n_groove said:brianlux said:tempo_n_groove said:mrussel1 said:brianlux said:The notion (as stated by some of you above) that working as pastor, youth group leader, etc. creates access makes sense. What doesn't make sense is that supposedly Christianity is a faith based at least in part on a sense of morality and yet here you have people committing heinous and highly immoral acts. It reminds me of Christians who love and support Trump, another example of a confounding disconnect. All I can say is, Jesus would be mightily pissed off. If you think he lost his cool with the money changers in the temple, imagine how he would feel about these creeps.
Agreed, for sure. I don't have anything against people who are religious or church going. My father was very involved in the Presbyterian Church. He was a deacon for several year and at one time he became the Moderator of the General Assembly of the U.S. Presbyterian Church. He did good work and was a faithful and decent man. So I know there are good people doing good things in various churches. What I don't understand is why more people of faith have not spoken out against those who would distort and pervert the foundations of their faith.0 -
cblock4life said:tempo_n_groove said:mrussel1 said:brianlux said:The notion (as stated by some of you above) that working as pastor, youth group leader, etc. creates access makes sense. What doesn't make sense is that supposedly Christianity is a faith based at least in part on a sense of morality and yet here you have people committing heinous and highly immoral acts. It reminds me of Christians who love and support Trump, another example of a confounding disconnect. All I can say is, Jesus would be mightily pissed off. If you think he lost his cool with the money changers in the temple, imagine how he would feel about these creeps.
Jesus did not but Tithes are very much mentioned throughout the bible. It goes with the whole Give unto the Lord thing.
Can we add synagogues and Mosques to the corruption list too?0 -
tempo_n_groove said:cblock4life said:tempo_n_groove said:mrussel1 said:brianlux said:The notion (as stated by some of you above) that working as pastor, youth group leader, etc. creates access makes sense. What doesn't make sense is that supposedly Christianity is a faith based at least in part on a sense of morality and yet here you have people committing heinous and highly immoral acts. It reminds me of Christians who love and support Trump, another example of a confounding disconnect. All I can say is, Jesus would be mightily pissed off. If you think he lost his cool with the money changers in the temple, imagine how he would feel about these creeps.
Jesus did not but Tithes are very much mentioned throughout the bible. It goes with the whole Give unto the Lord thing.
Can we add synagogues and Mosques to the corruption list too?0 -
I'm sure Islam does it's bit too
this song is meant to be called i got shit,itshould be called i got shit tickets-hartford 06 -0 -
nicknyr15 said:tempo_n_groove said:cblock4life said:tempo_n_groove said:mrussel1 said:brianlux said:The notion (as stated by some of you above) that working as pastor, youth group leader, etc. creates access makes sense. What doesn't make sense is that supposedly Christianity is a faith based at least in part on a sense of morality and yet here you have people committing heinous and highly immoral acts. It reminds me of Christians who love and support Trump, another example of a confounding disconnect. All I can say is, Jesus would be mightily pissed off. If you think he lost his cool with the money changers in the temple, imagine how he would feel about these creeps.
Jesus did not but Tithes are very much mentioned throughout the bible. It goes with the whole Give unto the Lord thing.
Can we add synagogues and Mosques to the corruption list too?0 -
mrussel1 said:nicknyr15 said:tempo_n_groove said:cblock4life said:tempo_n_groove said:mrussel1 said:brianlux said:The notion (as stated by some of you above) that working as pastor, youth group leader, etc. creates access makes sense. What doesn't make sense is that supposedly Christianity is a faith based at least in part on a sense of morality and yet here you have people committing heinous and highly immoral acts. It reminds me of Christians who love and support Trump, another example of a confounding disconnect. All I can say is, Jesus would be mightily pissed off. If you think he lost his cool with the money changers in the temple, imagine how he would feel about these creeps.
Jesus did not but Tithes are very much mentioned throughout the bible. It goes with the whole Give unto the Lord thing.
Can we add synagogues and Mosques to the corruption list too?0 -
mrussel1 said:nicknyr15 said:tempo_n_groove said:cblock4life said:tempo_n_groove said:mrussel1 said:brianlux said:The notion (as stated by some of you above) that working as pastor, youth group leader, etc. creates access makes sense. What doesn't make sense is that supposedly Christianity is a faith based at least in part on a sense of morality and yet here you have people committing heinous and highly immoral acts. It reminds me of Christians who love and support Trump, another example of a confounding disconnect. All I can say is, Jesus would be mightily pissed off. If you think he lost his cool with the money changers in the temple, imagine how he would feel about these creeps.
Jesus did not but Tithes are very much mentioned throughout the bible. It goes with the whole Give unto the Lord thing.
Can we add synagogues and Mosques to the corruption list too?nicknyr15 said:mrussel1 said:nicknyr15 said:tempo_n_groove said:cblock4life said:tempo_n_groove said:mrussel1 said:brianlux said:The notion (as stated by some of you above) that working as pastor, youth group leader, etc. creates access makes sense. What doesn't make sense is that supposedly Christianity is a faith based at least in part on a sense of morality and yet here you have people committing heinous and highly immoral acts. It reminds me of Christians who love and support Trump, another example of a confounding disconnect. All I can say is, Jesus would be mightily pissed off. If you think he lost his cool with the money changers in the temple, imagine how he would feel about these creeps.
Jesus did not but Tithes are very much mentioned throughout the bible. It goes with the whole Give unto the Lord thing.
Can we add synagogues and Mosques to the corruption list too?
I had also gone to a pentacostal church and do I have stories... I enjoyed it but man, coming from a boring catholic upbringing these people were nuts!
They weren't the ones with snakes they just spoke in tongues and ran up and down the aisles like it was gym class.
I should write a short story on that experience.0 -
tempo_n_groove said:mrussel1 said:nicknyr15 said:tempo_n_groove said:cblock4life said:tempo_n_groove said:mrussel1 said:brianlux said:The notion (as stated by some of you above) that working as pastor, youth group leader, etc. creates access makes sense. What doesn't make sense is that supposedly Christianity is a faith based at least in part on a sense of morality and yet here you have people committing heinous and highly immoral acts. It reminds me of Christians who love and support Trump, another example of a confounding disconnect. All I can say is, Jesus would be mightily pissed off. If you think he lost his cool with the money changers in the temple, imagine how he would feel about these creeps.
Jesus did not but Tithes are very much mentioned throughout the bible. It goes with the whole Give unto the Lord thing.
Can we add synagogues and Mosques to the corruption list too?nicknyr15 said:mrussel1 said:nicknyr15 said:tempo_n_groove said:cblock4life said:tempo_n_groove said:mrussel1 said:brianlux said:The notion (as stated by some of you above) that working as pastor, youth group leader, etc. creates access makes sense. What doesn't make sense is that supposedly Christianity is a faith based at least in part on a sense of morality and yet here you have people committing heinous and highly immoral acts. It reminds me of Christians who love and support Trump, another example of a confounding disconnect. All I can say is, Jesus would be mightily pissed off. If you think he lost his cool with the money changers in the temple, imagine how he would feel about these creeps.
Jesus did not but Tithes are very much mentioned throughout the bible. It goes with the whole Give unto the Lord thing.
Can we add synagogues and Mosques to the corruption list too?
I had also gone to a pentacostal church and do I have stories... I enjoyed it but man, coming from a boring catholic upbringing these people were nuts!
They weren't the ones with snakes they just spoke in tongues and ran up and down the aisles like it was gym class.
I should write a short story on that experience.
Pentecostal stories would be hilarious. People are nuts.0 -
tempo_n_groove said:cblock4life said:tempo_n_groove said:mrussel1 said:brianlux said:The notion (as stated by some of you above) that working as pastor, youth group leader, etc. creates access makes sense. What doesn't make sense is that supposedly Christianity is a faith based at least in part on a sense of morality and yet here you have people committing heinous and highly immoral acts. It reminds me of Christians who love and support Trump, another example of a confounding disconnect. All I can say is, Jesus would be mightily pissed off. If you think he lost his cool with the money changers in the temple, imagine how he would feel about these creeps.
Jesus did not but Tithes are very much mentioned throughout the bible. It goes with the whole Give unto the Lord thing.
Can we add synagogues and Mosques to the corruption list too?
Christians don't really have a leg to stand on when it comes to the latter.0 -
Merkin Baller said:tempo_n_groove said:cblock4life said:tempo_n_groove said:mrussel1 said:brianlux said:The notion (as stated by some of you above) that working as pastor, youth group leader, etc. creates access makes sense. What doesn't make sense is that supposedly Christianity is a faith based at least in part on a sense of morality and yet here you have people committing heinous and highly immoral acts. It reminds me of Christians who love and support Trump, another example of a confounding disconnect. All I can say is, Jesus would be mightily pissed off. If you think he lost his cool with the money changers in the temple, imagine how he would feel about these creeps.
Jesus did not but Tithes are very much mentioned throughout the bible. It goes with the whole Give unto the Lord thing.
Can we add synagogues and Mosques to the corruption list too?
Christians don't really have a leg to stand on when it comes to the latter.0 -
mrussel1 said:tempo_n_groove said:mrussel1 said:nicknyr15 said:tempo_n_groove said:cblock4life said:tempo_n_groove said:mrussel1 said:brianlux said:The notion (as stated by some of you above) that working as pastor, youth group leader, etc. creates access makes sense. What doesn't make sense is that supposedly Christianity is a faith based at least in part on a sense of morality and yet here you have people committing heinous and highly immoral acts. It reminds me of Christians who love and support Trump, another example of a confounding disconnect. All I can say is, Jesus would be mightily pissed off. If you think he lost his cool with the money changers in the temple, imagine how he would feel about these creeps.
Jesus did not but Tithes are very much mentioned throughout the bible. It goes with the whole Give unto the Lord thing.
Can we add synagogues and Mosques to the corruption list too?nicknyr15 said:mrussel1 said:nicknyr15 said:tempo_n_groove said:cblock4life said:tempo_n_groove said:mrussel1 said:brianlux said:The notion (as stated by some of you above) that working as pastor, youth group leader, etc. creates access makes sense. What doesn't make sense is that supposedly Christianity is a faith based at least in part on a sense of morality and yet here you have people committing heinous and highly immoral acts. It reminds me of Christians who love and support Trump, another example of a confounding disconnect. All I can say is, Jesus would be mightily pissed off. If you think he lost his cool with the money changers in the temple, imagine how he would feel about these creeps.
Jesus did not but Tithes are very much mentioned throughout the bible. It goes with the whole Give unto the Lord thing.
Can we add synagogues and Mosques to the corruption list too?
I had also gone to a pentacostal church and do I have stories... I enjoyed it but man, coming from a boring catholic upbringing these people were nuts!
They weren't the ones with snakes they just spoke in tongues and ran up and down the aisles like it was gym class.
I should write a short story on that experience.
Pentecostal stories would be hilarious. People are nuts.
I need to write the story about Boogs. He was also with my first time there. It's better with visuals but I know I can portray it to words pretty good.0 -
a buddy of mine promised his mom he'd go to mass on a saturday afternoon. we were hanging out that day, so he begged me to go with him. having never been in a catholic church before (I was about 17), I started fiddling around with that kneeling thing with my foot, wondering what it was. well, I let it fall and it cranked an old man down the aisle on his shin, and he let out a massive "AAAHHH!", spending the rest of mass massaging his leg and giving me the stink eye.
that was my last catholic mass until I got married.Hugh Freaking Dillon is currently out of the office, returning sometime in the fall0 -
tempo_n_groove said:Merkin Baller said:tempo_n_groove said:cblock4life said:tempo_n_groove said:mrussel1 said:brianlux said:The notion (as stated by some of you above) that working as pastor, youth group leader, etc. creates access makes sense. What doesn't make sense is that supposedly Christianity is a faith based at least in part on a sense of morality and yet here you have people committing heinous and highly immoral acts. It reminds me of Christians who love and support Trump, another example of a confounding disconnect. All I can say is, Jesus would be mightily pissed off. If you think he lost his cool with the money changers in the temple, imagine how he would feel about these creeps.
Jesus did not but Tithes are very much mentioned throughout the bible. It goes with the whole Give unto the Lord thing.
Can we add synagogues and Mosques to the corruption list too?
Christians don't really have a leg to stand on when it comes to the latter.
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HughFreakingDillon said:a buddy of mine promised his mom he'd go to mass on a saturday afternoon. we were hanging out that day, so he begged me to go with him. having never been in a catholic church before (I was about 17), I started fiddling around with that kneeling thing with my foot, wondering what it was. well, I let it fall and it cranked an old man down the aisle on his shin, and he let out a massive "AAAHHH!", spending the rest of mass massaging his leg and giving me the stink eye.
that was my last catholic mass until I got married.0 -
Merkin Baller said:tempo_n_groove said:Merkin Baller said:tempo_n_groove said:cblock4life said:tempo_n_groove said:mrussel1 said:brianlux said:The notion (as stated by some of you above) that working as pastor, youth group leader, etc. creates access makes sense. What doesn't make sense is that supposedly Christianity is a faith based at least in part on a sense of morality and yet here you have people committing heinous and highly immoral acts. It reminds me of Christians who love and support Trump, another example of a confounding disconnect. All I can say is, Jesus would be mightily pissed off. If you think he lost his cool with the money changers in the temple, imagine how he would feel about these creeps.
Jesus did not but Tithes are very much mentioned throughout the bible. It goes with the whole Give unto the Lord thing.
Can we add synagogues and Mosques to the corruption list too?
Christians don't really have a leg to stand on when it comes to the latter.0 -
HughFreakingDillon said:a buddy of mine promised his mom he'd go to mass on a saturday afternoon. we were hanging out that day, so he begged me to go with him. having never been in a catholic church before (I was about 17), I started fiddling around with that kneeling thing with my foot, wondering what it was. well, I let it fall and it cranked an old man down the aisle on his shin, and he let out a massive "AAAHHH!", spending the rest of mass massaging his leg and giving me the stink eye.
that was my last catholic mass until I got married.
Our pews were old and had a crack in some from bigger people sitting on the edge rather than kneeling.
Well in the summer when you wear shorts and someone bigger than you sits on the edge those cracks open up. When they shift or move those cracks close. Sometimes on your exposed skin.
I too have let out an ouch. That hurts!0 -
I remember being surprised by the kneeling piece when I attended a Catholic funeral.
I grew up in the United Methodist Church. We only did communion twice a year I believe...Easter and Xmas.
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Gern Blansten said:I remember being surprised by the kneeling piece when I attended a Catholic funeral.
I grew up in the United Methodist Church. We only did communion twice a year I believe...Easter and Xmas.
I used to go to church with my Grandma in Ft Wayne whenever I stayed with them during the summers. She attended a church affiliated with the Church of God. They did communion every week which was an impressive snack for me.0 -
tempo_n_groove said:Merkin Baller said:tempo_n_groove said:Merkin Baller said:tempo_n_groove said:cblock4life said:tempo_n_groove said:mrussel1 said:brianlux said:The notion (as stated by some of you above) that working as pastor, youth group leader, etc. creates access makes sense. What doesn't make sense is that supposedly Christianity is a faith based at least in part on a sense of morality and yet here you have people committing heinous and highly immoral acts. It reminds me of Christians who love and support Trump, another example of a confounding disconnect. All I can say is, Jesus would be mightily pissed off. If you think he lost his cool with the money changers in the temple, imagine how he would feel about these creeps.
Jesus did not but Tithes are very much mentioned throughout the bible. It goes with the whole Give unto the Lord thing.
Can we add synagogues and Mosques to the corruption list too?
Christians don't really have a leg to stand on when it comes to the latter.
It sure does, and in the case of the Catholic church there's been coordinated cover up and enabling of grooming and abuse of children over the course of decades, if not centuries.
This piqued my curiosity as to whether or not grooming and abuse is more prevalent in some religions as opposed to others... . I don't have the answer to that question, nor do I have time to dive in today, but with that being said:
There's no small amount of hypocrisy coming from the overwhelmingly Christian conservatives in America vilifying LGBTQ groups for grooming of children. Like you said, it happens everywhere. Has it been happening among the drag or trans community to the extent that they should be demonized for it? Not that I'm aware of, (but I'm open to new information).
Vilifying an already marginalized group for something that happens everywhere suggests this line of attack has nothing to do with children at all, and more about attacking that group and stoking the culture wars.
I trust that's not lost on you.
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