Paul TigerB6
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| posted on 8/6/08 at 08:39 AM |
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Originally posted by andybod. from my personal experiance as a witness you find some people can be a bit fanatical trying to preach at
every oppotunity my grandmother was like that and it used to p*ss me off a bit
Nah you wont be stoned here for being so open and honest about it. Anyway, here..............catch this rock!!! 
My grandmother is just the same as above - constantly preaching to everyone and unfortunately its so bad its totally split the family to such an
extent that i never see her now. I havent spoken to my mother for reasons i wont go into, but to then get preached to every single time i saw my nan
about it and what will happen come Armageddon if i dont just really got to me and made sure i now just keep away for the sake of a peaceful life.
Now to me, religion should be about becoming a better person - but it just seems to divide people more and more and has caused more wars through
history than any other subject!! Only have to look at the world today to see how much happens in the name of religion (by the fanatical, not the vast
majority!!) - makes you question if religion is a good thing doesnt it!!!
Sunday preaching over
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britishtrident
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| posted on 8/6/08 at 09:17 AM |
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Most ammusing thing I ever heard about the is that the Church of England is worried by the rising threat of "evangelical atheism" -
surely an oxymoron ?
Just keep a few pages copied from Richard Dawkin's "The God Delusion" handy ready to hand out to such callers and watch them
"make their excuses and leave".
Using pretty girls to tout religion is an old trick the Salvation Army know's the power of a pretty girl in uniform !
In the Glasgow area about 15 years ago the was a religious sect operating that used young women to flirt with guys and them try and seduce them into
the sect.
[I] “ What use our work, Bennet, if we cannot care for those we love? .”
― From BBC TV/Amazon's Ripper Street.
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Peteff
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| posted on 8/6/08 at 09:36 AM |
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Right, nobody stones anyones till I blow this whistle!
(Life of Brian)
The ones down the road from us still try the door knocking but I just tell them I'm not interested. The funny thing is they won't even say
Hello if you pass them in the street which is something I do with all my neighbours. One of my friends Les is a Jovie and when he was doing the rounds
with them he came and talked to me outside but it was about computers
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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johnston
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| posted on 8/6/08 at 07:55 PM |
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My mrs won't let me play with any of the callers or preachers in the street
Used to go to church, played bass in church band and in another that mostly played church youth events and the such. Some of my good friends are
still churchy folk they know my feelings I know theirs and nothing gets said BUT!!!! some of the other ones in the "click" would hardly
look twice at me in the street because I dont go every sunday(well any sunday).
One of the reasons I didnt stick with it was because i found a lot to be very hypocritical, once we had a debate about working sundays 1 of the
strongest veiwed and most religous girls said should only be ministers and emergancy services... Until she had to pay her way through university
seems mcdonalds drive thru and selling paintings became emergancy services very quickly!!! Also they have a very biased approach only deal with
evidence for their own religion and against others ..
But some of the best lines i've used have been
"wasnt jesus born a jew live as a jew and die as a jew????"
and to start them down the path of everything needs to be created as in no big bang theory someone has to make it. then ask who made god, usual
reply is no one he is all powerfull etc etc, to which you hit them with their own line " but everything needs to be created it cant just
BE"
Theres a lot more things you can fire at them which usually see's them turning on their heels if you like the supposed fact behind the da vinci
code or the whole conspircy theories thers some good books out there.
AND before anyone gets offended by my comments DON'T I think anyone should be allowed to follow any belief as long as it doesnt harm or include
brainwashing anyone else. I only go into anti-religon mode when someone does the whole your a sinner or repent now malarky to me first.
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 8/6/08 at 09:09 PM |
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Originally posted by johnston
But some of the best lines i've used have been
"wasnt jesus born a jew live as a jew and die as a jew????"
And, basically, he wanted everyone to be a better jew.
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Syd Bridge
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| posted on 8/6/08 at 09:26 PM |
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Anyone heard the Kevin Bloody Wilson song about JW's?
'How would they like it if we knocked on their door on a Saturday night, stick book(porn in UK english) in one hand and a six pack in the other.
Wife in low cut dress, and both dressed in best shorts and thongs, (english-flip flops).
Hello, we've come to introduce youse people to a whole new way of life. Here, you, have a beer while I have a maul of your wife'....
Yair, just imagine if we did this to them?????
Classic KBW.
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Simon
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| posted on 9/6/08 at 01:06 AM |
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Originally posted by graememk
IPersonally I think the Christian Bible is a English interpretation of the Karan.
Unlikely, as the Bible was written somewhat before the Koran. Islam began with Mohammed's flight from Mecca in 622 AD.
The Romans (after they cottoned on) started writing the Bible about a hundred years after Christ's cruxification.
I prefer the big bang (expansion actually) theory meself, though I'm somewhat bemused as to what caused it to expand and what was in the space
that it filled before it expanded.
Of course, it, like everything could all just be a figment of my imagination
ATB
Simon
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 9/6/08 at 07:53 AM |
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"In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded" (Terry Pratchett)
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02GF74
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| posted on 9/6/08 at 07:57 AM |
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big bang in an interesting theory. what worries and keeps me awake some nights is what caused the big bang and why isn't there another big
bang, I mean, it would wreck my garden for a start.
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scootz
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| posted on 9/6/08 at 08:26 AM |
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But was it a big bang, or just a little pfft?
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martyn_16v
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| posted on 9/6/08 at 10:39 PM |
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There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear
and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
Douglas Adams RIP
Clearly the truth is that on the first day the universe was created as a mountain, some trees and a midgit. The rest was done over the next three
days, and then He (the Flying Spaghetti Monster, obviously) took a bit of a break for three days.
Any religion who's heaven has beer volcanos as far as the eye can see, and a stripper factory, gets my vote 
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