Comments on: Peace On Earth, Good Will To Men

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 05:58:53 +0000

Now BadTux, what’s wrong with my Church of the Cannabis Sacrament? 🙂

But a little beer now and again is fine too.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 05:04:49 +0000

Come on, Badtux, most churches hand out wine and a cracker occasionally, and then argue about what it mean, but I personally always preferred beer and peanuts, truth be told, so I’ll have to investigate the Holy Brewery.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 04:42:39 +0000

This happens every year, they just dust off the headlines and file off the names.

As for cargo cults, yes, I have previously pointed out that the most successful religions around are basically glorified cargo cults. They’re based all on promising people riches in the afterlife — i.e., Heaven. The only difference between being a member of the Assemblies of God and a member of a South Pacific cargo cult is that the South Pacific islanders have actually seen the riches that their God provides, while the members of the Assemblies of God gullibly simply believe (“faith”) that there’s riches waiting for them once they kick this mortal coil. Thus my tongue-in-cheek proposal for the Church of the Holy Brewery, where you get the goodies on *this* plane of existence, not in some “afterlife” that may or may not exist… simply give your donation to the priest behind the bar, and he gives you the goodies. Simple :-).

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 15:06:23 +0000

Give them new robes with sleeves that buckle in the back.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 07:23:23 +0000

good lord. maybe we could outfit them with super-soakers full of windex.

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 06:32:48 +0000

And what I will say then is that it is no longer a cargo cult.

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 06:29:34 +0000

It’s a cargo cult. They’ve lost their sacrament, as the Jews lost their tabernacle, but they go through the motions. They should make bread and leaven it with some cannabis.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 06:26:28 +0000

One of the Israeli newspapers had a picture a while back of a ladder leaning against a church [in Jerusalem, I think] that had been put up to clean a window. Apparently for several years there has been an argument as to whether or not the ladder can be used as the bottom is resting on an area of one group, while the window belongs to another.

These people are insane.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 05:55:23 +0000

nah, a little dustup with brooms and ladders fits right in with the “no room at the inn” spirit of the season.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 04:37:46 +0000

The keys to most Christian religious sites in the Holy Land are controlled by Muslim families because the various Christian groups can’t get along. These people are really pathetic.