Comments on: Huh?

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 18:21:14 +0000

After spending my 20s reading Soviet socialist realism, I’ll stay with fantasy.

By: whig

whig — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 17:55:36 +0000

Principia Discordia is quite an enjoyable read, I think.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 21:14:26 +0000

You really need to be a divinity student to do justice to that sort of thing.

Philosophy major become the best satirists. I think it’s Kant that bends them that way.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:40:40 +0000

“I say we throw fundamentalist of all stripes on an island and let them persecute each other.” – andante

I was about to say that that’s been tried, and it’s known as “the American experiment,” but I see Bryan has beaten me to it upstream.

Speaking of religion, I just read part of The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, thanks to Stella, who checked it out of the public library. Honestly, don’t bother: the idea is clever, but the execution is pretty weak. And I say that as one who is pretty tolerant of mediocre books. I did not finish reading it.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 03:31:01 +0000

Actually, anywhere that Dobson goes would be Hell for me, no matter what it said on the entrance. It’s a problem ensuring that you have done enough bad things in your life so you don’t get stuck with evangelicals for eternity.

By: Alice

Alice — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 03:05:08 +0000

LOL, Bryan, I never thought of it that way. But since Hell does accept anyone who shows up, one could interpret that to mean that Hell isn’t judgmental. (damn, maybe I should have gone after that marketing degree after all)

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:14:12 +0000

Given that every church feels that it is the sole possessor of the truth, this is a battle that will never end.

Actually, Andante, that was the condition in some of the early colonies that led to the First Amendment. The absurd thing today is that some of the groups in this country who are arguing for the return of that system were among the victims of that practice.

You know, Alice, it has always bothered me that Heaven gets a choice, but Hell doesn’t. Heaven get to select people, but Hell has to accept anyone who shows up on the threshold.

By: Alice

Alice — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:27:50 +0000

Well it’s about time someone told Dobson he’s going to hell.

By: andante

andante — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:45:26 +0000

My latest and favorite bumper sticker siting – “The last time religion and politics mixed, people were burned at the stake”.

I say we throw fundamentalist of all stripes on an island and let them persecute each other.