The religion thread.

[ice grillin you]

if you want to know why i hate religion....especially ultra orthodox jews....read this

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/10/outcast-3

this has been a huge story around me for the past couple weeks

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/15/d-c-rabbi-charged-with-voyeurism-took-cross-country-trip-with-a-woman-other-than-his-wife.html



http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/police-arrest-georgetown-rabbi-on-voyeurism-charge/2014/10/14/15a73206-53cc-11e4-809b-8cc0a295c773_story.html

[rjs246]

Just go online and watch some porn dude. wtf.

[MDS]

actually that dude is cool

at least hes putting those cult rituals to some kind of tangible use

[ice grillin you]

Pastor busted for fondling mentally challenged niece, 15, in church

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20141103_Pastor_busted_for_fondling_mentally_challenged_niece__15__in_church.html#KTDwBjQ6XCJ0yzpw.99

[SD]

haha this is incredible


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bntfUA6TmLs

[General_Failure]

Jesus, that's awful. Who's buying ten packs of zesty energy drinks?

[MDS]

anyone catholic here?

i was at my first mass today....and holy shtein is this religion a trainwreck. i thought judiasm was farged up but jesus christ this was torture.

-everyone was bowing before going up the stage...or alter...or whatever its called. are they japanese?
-the thing in the back that holds the jesus cookies looks like r2d2 from star wars. i swear. it was cool.
-there was this weird kneeling part that i refused to participate in. even so, thats pretty farged up. nobody should have to kneel for anyone, this isnt 16th century europe.
-it took like an hour, but evidently this was a "fast" mass. a jewish wedding takes like 20 minutes, in and out. maybe the rabbi has a longer spiel...otherwise its a few prayers and OUT. also the glass smashing thing is not a part of the ceremony, which is awful because its the only good part of any religion. everyone should adopt it.
-the priest, who i assume either molested kids or looked the other way when someone else did, essentially said jesus believed in catholicism. he was a farging jew who other people made out to be god. right? am i wrong? what the hell.
-he also said jesus will be resurrected. didnt that already happen? so now its going to happen again? the farg.

all in all an enjoyable experience. 

[hbionic]

 

My favorite part is shaking hands with the hotties so it is important you sit in the right place. Choose your seat wisely.

You should go to a mass in a predominate Mexican neighborhood, and just sit back. It's a thing to see.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Damn right bionic! Choose your seats wisely. The chick to whom I lost my virginity - that's how I met her. Catholic Church and Sunday school .

The wedding I attended tonight in Lima was catholic but this priest was more game show host and carnie barker. He was singing and yelling and conversing. Total different atmosphere than what I'm used to. Even the Peruvians thought he was a bit off the wall.

[Diomedes]

This is all you need to know about Catholicism:  It is an article of faith--meaning if you don't believe it, Rome says you're not Catholic-that the wine and host actually become the body and blood of Christ, and then you eat and drink it.  For Catholics, this is explicitely NOT a symbolic thing, they believe (or are supposed to) that they are EATING the body of Christ and DRINKING his blood every Sunday. 

That is no more ludicrous than Scientology, Mormonism, or any other wacked out cult crap you can dig up.

[Diomedes]

http://www.salon.com/2014/11/14/why_the_internet_is_slowly_strangling_religion_partner/

[BigEd76]

Pope Frank is coming to Philly next September

[General_Failure]

Early copy of the Qur'an discovered

Researchers in Germany have discovered that a manuscript of Qur'an written between 20 and 40 years after the Prophet Muhammad's death, making it one of the earliest copies of the Islamic holy book known to be in existence.

Scholars at the Coranica Project, part of the University of Tübingen, examined a manuscript written in Kufic script, one of the oldest forms of Arabic writing. Using carbon-14 dating on three samples of the manuscript parchment, the researchers concluded that it was more than 95 percent likely to have originated in the period 649-675 AD.

The manuscript is one of more than 20 fragments of Kufic script held by the Tübingen University Library. This particular item was donated to the university in the 19th century.

The entire manuscript has already been digitized and can be viewed here.

[phattymatty]

i thought that link was going to go to a cartoony muhammad comic strip or something. disappointed.

[Eagaholic]

They had nice hand writing back then but their spelling was atroscious.

How cool would it be if they realized the stuff like stoning women who got raped was mistranslated from women who got raped should be allowed to get stoned.