When has religion irked you personally and why?

Dang, just catching up on the jokes. Okay, a priest takes a choirboy out for an after-dinner walk through the woods in the parish. It starts to get dark and the choirboy says, "I'm scared Father, it's getting so dark." The priest says: "You think you're scared, I have to walk home alone."

heeheeheeheeheeheehee . . .

Ah, yer a bad man, so . . .

eliptical was the operative word in my sentence. I have to go work now. I just wanted to see if you'd respond with the typical insults when you are disagreed with.

Have a nice day.

Bunny, I don't know if maliagar will post here again, but he has posted in other threads within the last 24 hours.

Typical insults . . . how very typical of you Craven . . . take insult where you will, machts nicht to me . . .

Hmmm - I think argument for argument's sake is a negative spin on what I meant - but I see I must avoid ellipsis.

If Craven enjoys debate fer its own sake, it's a good thing he's darn good at it. (testiness notwithstanding)

One thing which irks me royally about religion--the sacrifice of virgins . . .

I mean, you'd think God would want a woman with some experience--say, a veteran streetwalker . . .

Sacrificing virgins, all that wasted potential . . .

A very inefficient plan, I would say, Set.

I know where yer comin' from there, Set, but look at it this way: The Sacrifice of Virgins could be seen as a powerful inducement to cooperate, ya know. The way I figure it, there's damned little profit to be had gettin' rid of proven, willin' party people, and the sacrifice thing is a concrete warning to the reticent ...

In the Church of the Righteous Screed, we don't make these basic theological errors . . . if a virgin's all we got, we test drive the potential sacrifice first . . .

Well, Monger, I don't know if Craven enjoys debate for its own sake or not, but I certainly enjoy READING good ones, by people who know of what they speak - about interesting topics - even the insults were fun in this one, sometimes.

Maliager was here last night, dlowan, after leaving this thread. We were, errrr, discussing stories.

Sometimes the insults were not fun, especially when the name-calling and patronizing started. It is interesting to go back to page one here, and read how this thread developed and digressed, and to note how I also supported maliagar being here at first. At first, he seemed a good foil for the thread. Then all hell broke loose, and it was enough already for me. I just want my discussion thread back. This was not supposed to digress into a religious debate, especially if Craven wants more Google hits. Their entire debate should have been posted under another topic. ehBeth, stories huh....hmmm...

An' another thing . . . ya have the odd angel drop by to bring ya the word of God, the local boys make some unpleasant remarks about strangers in town after dark, ya shove yer daughter outside to distract the crowd, and what happens? God overreacts . . . sheesh, that Yaweh dude is too thin-skinned--he's got blast Sodom and Gemorrah to Kingdom Come (so to speak), when ya had the situation under control already . . .

Gosh! Irking???

Agnostics are fakes???

Or some people who claim to be agnostics are fakes???

Once you start down this road of cowardice, Maliagar, it become a downhill plunge.

You really have to be more direct -- or people are going to start calling you a woosie. (Actually, they already are.)

But let me put it to you straight. You couldn't hold an agnostics jockstrap if the sport is ethics and/or truthfulness.

You want to take on the atheists for their "beliefs" -- do so. I've done plenty of that myself.

But for someone who posts the garbage you post, a shot at agnostics is laughable. But that is all you are doing these days, Maliagar, providing laughs.

Hey, that ain't bad.

I thank you for the ones you provide me.

Pillars of salt, there's another one which really gets my goat . . . like God didn't know any married woman on the face of earth would look back in regret on the tidy little home she'd made . . . no wonder the old lecher had to sleep with his daughters . . .

Oh, sorry Cav. Didn't realise you felt that way.

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Remember the bible story books at the doctor's office. With the little rounded animals and happy little children? Stories. I thanked maliagar for using the term 'bible stories'.

Didn't you have a mother in your neighbourhood who used to say, "don't you be coming to me with your stories"?

On one hand I agree, on the other I wonder what commander would use experienced soldiers for cannon fodder.