A letter from Hell!

[Julia]

Follow this link to bask in the warm glow of Christian love.

http://www.godtube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=e10543891fd2e7277d15

Words fail me - this is the religious equivalent of S/M porn. >:-) >:-)

[Zaira]

Where do you find this stuff? That was awful!

[Lord Muck oGentry]

Follow this link to bask in the warm glow of Christian love.

http://www.godtube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=e10543891fd2e7277d15

Words fail me - this is the religious equivalent of S/M porn. >:-) >:-)

Right you are, Julia. The hellfire-and-brimstone sermon for the youtube generation!

When I think of the mischief that is done to young minds by this evil nonsense, I could cheerfully see the perpetrators thrown to the lions. Then I calm down a bit and reflect on what can be done. Perhaps the best idea is to get the point across that this is a form of child abuse, and those who perpetrate or condone it are doing something utterly shameful.

[Julia]

Where do you find this stuff? That was awful!

I saw it here
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/

and thought it deserved (for want of a better word) a wider audience. The comments are just as disturbing as the video itself.

[Zaira]

Julia,

Thanks for the link. Felt quite disturbed by the first one, I'm a bit hesitant to go to this one. But no doubt curiosity will get the better of me. :smiley:

[FarSideOfTheMoon]

See you all in hell I guess. >:D

[MischiefMonkey]

Hubby was laughing his bits off at that. I think we all know where he is going to end up when he dies. Until then I shall obviously try to save his immortal soul with loads of intense proseletising.



Anyone know a good divorce lawyer?

[bobdezon]

This isnt that stupid russian scientists drilled a hole into hell and recorded it is it? ::)

[filippo lippi]

Where do you find this stuff?


In the 'good book.'

[filippo lippi]

It really boils my piss that the credulous get a free pass when it comes to bullying, intimidation and bigotry just because they are under the delusion that they are doing god's work.

[Zaira]

"When I think of the mischief that is done to young minds by this evil nonsense, I could cheerfully see the perpetrators thrown to the lions. Then I calm down a bit and reflect on what can be done. Perhaps the best idea is to get the point across that this is a form of child abuse, and those who perpetrate or condone it are doing something utterly shameful." - Lord Muck oGentry

It really does border on child abuse, and I don't just mean that creepy movie, I mean religion in gerneral.


I know I have some weird and wonderful ideas but I never shared them with my kids. I have talked to them (2 sons and a daughter) on and off about when they were younger, like you do. And my sons (with cheeky smiles on their faces) said, "We just thought you were weird." Then my lovely daughter chimed in to save the day, "Well not weird... Eccentric." So I've gone from weird to eccentric. I can live with that.

[hierosulos]

When I think of the mischief that is done to young minds by this evil nonsense, I could cheerfully see the perpetrators thrown to the lions. Then I calm down a bit and reflect on what can be done. Perhaps the best idea is to get the point across that this is a form of child abuse, and those who perpetrate or condone it are doing something utterly shameful.

I second that. This is the kind of nonsense I had to endure for years. Guilt mongering. I've never seen it condensed quite like that, though. I also love the reinterpretation. To my understanding, hell is just 'absence from God', according to the Bible which people like this so pervert.

It's judgemental rubbish like this that drove me to becoming a non-practising Christian, and drives me ever closer to dispensing with my faith altogether (and only fear that stops me!)

[Fiona]

Oh I don't know. I adore the specificity of the medieval conception of hell. Down with the "absence of God". Hurray for the Lyke Wake Dirge :cheesy:

[Lord Muck oGentry]

Hmmm.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyke-Wake_Dirge

They got what-for all right, but it was for lacking charity, not credulity. If we absolutely must have morality tales, I suppose that's a tolerable moral. :smiley:

[Fiona]

Och see? Salvation through works? Heretic!!

[ZERO]

I second that. This is the kind of nonsense I had to endure for years. Guilt mongering.
It's judgemental rubbish like this that drove me to becoming a non-practising Christian, and drives me ever closer to dispensing with my faith altogether (and only fear that stops me!)

Escaping religious belief has given me a great sense of freedom.

Do you celebrate christmas and easter?

http://www.history.com/minisite.do?content_type=Minisite_Generic&content_type_id=686&display_order=3&mini_id=1072
http://de.essortment.com/christmaspagan_rece.htm

A "christian"?
http://www.seiyaku.com/customs/pagan-symbols.html

So you see, todays christians are really pagans and will burn in a early christian hell.
Unless christianity is the wrong religion. Maybe an eastern religion is the one to fear?
No matter what a christian does, he/she is wrong by some interpretations.

The skeptic view point is so much simpler and easy to live with.

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[dee]

I want to go to hell. It's got to be cheaper on heating costs, constant BBQs, friends round for eternity, no god-botherers... yep it sounds like my kind of place >:D

[ohp]

I can't help but feel that Josh could have escaped from those nasty angels if only he'd put down his pen.

[ohp]

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[dashwood]

i thought it was just me who had guilt brainwashed into me at a young age.
i remember at school when the RE teacher told us of a white haired man with a beared, who watched us all the time and punished us if we were bad. i thought they were talking about santa:cheesy:
but seriously, they realy did a number on me, my guilt has taken me to the point of suicide.

but anyway, merry christms everyone and a cynical new yearO0
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[Julia]

Same to you, Dashwood!

And is it true that there are 4000 holes in Blackburn, Lancashire?

[bobdezon]

Dail Mail Jan 17th 1967

"There are 4000 holes in the road in Blackburn Lancashire, one twenty-sixth of a hole per person, according to a council survey.

[mesaysi]

I just want to know when this kid had the time to write a letter with all that going on. ;D

[The Great Bymble]

i thought it was just me who had guilt brainwashed into me at a young age.
i remember at school when the RE teacher told us of a white haired man with a beared, who watched us all the time and punished us if we were bad. i thought they were talking about santa:cheesy:
but seriously, they realy did a number on me, my guilt has taken me to the point of suicide.
I can empathise with that state of mind...
And it took this poor believer to the point where he did a serious number on himself: http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/09/hand.cut.off.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
Whilst it may be that this is 'one man with a Bible'I just wonder how many others out there have reached such a point of despair because they've listened to some egotist peddling shite about the 'Rapture',or some such 'cosmic reordering'?Once again projected fears of an imagined 'Hell' have put someone into a very real one in their present existence.

[Julia]

:shocked:. Just...:shocked:.

I shouldn't think there's much chance of surgeons being able to re-attach a 'somewhat cooked' hand, but I suppose the poor sod should be thankful he didn't see the mark on his forehead.

[dashwood]

hy julia
it is of coures not true that there are 4,000 holes in blackburn, because it is ONE BIG HOLE!...;D