All Hail the Risen Blingee Hey, remember how a week or so back we were all bummed because one of the most useful dumb wonderful things on the Internet, Blingee, was going away forever? Turns out that the public reaction was so anguished, so over the top, so filled with unicorns puking sad glitter, that the site's owners
That's so old Pope. New Pope is a tad friendlier. And actually, Catholics believe in their own conscience, so when "The Church" says or does something asinine or criminal, remember that doesn't mean Catholics are all in support. Kinda how you are (probably) an American and can actually disagree with your leaders, too. : http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/...
My power to put "my house" (I guess you mean, the entire heirarchy and 1.2 billion adherents) is somewhat limited. I'm neither guilty of perverting the Word nor conservative. I probably agree with all the MOAR WORDS (and you) 99% of the time. Howeever, there's poetry and beauty in that there book (otherwise, why do we talk of perverting? and/or adulturating?) And if it's not all crap, then DOK, let's agree not to take random potshots and unsolicited and unwarranted critiques. Otherwise, "they" could say, huh, that site is pretty hateful. And I would much rather it stay loveably snarky.
Seriously? You're looking at a blingeed picture of some Nordic motherfucker cosplaying Christ, and your problem is with the bling? I'd be more concerned that the son of god apparently has a Jindal-sized whitey complex.
I am confused. By "random potshots" and "unwarranted critiques" do you mean like pointing out that Lot offered his virgin daughters to the crowd to rape, or that those daughters later got him drunk and fucked him so that they could bear him sons? And that oddly, Lot is somehow seen as a "good guy"? I don't call that a random potshot. I call it pointing out the serious inconsistencies (there are many more) within the "Good Book" which in my mind limits its efficacy as a guide for a moral life.
Hey, super--I get jolted sometimes by rude images, too: just remember not to conflate the symbol with the substance. This being Wonkette, "sacred cows make the best hamburger." As Blue Lights notes below, the only things not funny here are rape and death threats.However, why can't Jesus be sexy? I know that according to Buddhism, only the lower chakras are stimulated by fleshly appetites, and once you're meditating on the Divine, the higher chakras start pinging, and the lower ones shut down. At least, that's my limited understanding. But people don't have to be eye candy to have sex appeal, and I bet a lot of people were turned on by Jesus back in the day. Good oratory can be pretty exciting.
Point taken--Godspell was so radical in imagining the love that Jesus' followers had for him as romantic and/or sexual. However, as much as our culture is obsessed with sex, so many other and earlier cultures were obsessed with death. So do you think sex is at the root of all human behavior or death? I would argue it depends. And "Why do you weep?" happens to be one of the more beautiful lines in the NT. I think when you start getting fundamentalist, you so equate the other (here, Christians) with evil that you can't stop and think wait, is this a fair jab or gratuitous one? I think it's fair to point out hypocricy all day long, but this was too far and I thought I should say so. Although comments are definitely not allowed.
Because a collection of writings going back over 3,000 years needs to be perfectly consistent (according to our modern ideals) or it's trash? I am not a fundamentalist, so I don't read the Bible as perfect, or immutable. I also don't quote the Bible in a quest to dominate or hurt others. POF can do nuance just like atheists and those fallen away.
This reminds me to call my next dog Leeloo.
Also too Ursula LeGuin AND Shankar Vedantam.
See also Meyers-Briggs
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This is why internet.
I gave up on SF after about 10 THIS IS NOT SFs in a row. Now I just reread old Asimov-edited anthologies.
That's so old Pope. New Pope is a tad friendlier. And actually, Catholics believe in their own conscience, so when "The Church" says or does something asinine or criminal, remember that doesn't mean Catholics are all in support. Kinda how you are (probably) an American and can actually disagree with your leaders, too. : http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/...
My power to put "my house" (I guess you mean, the entire heirarchy and 1.2 billion adherents) is somewhat limited. I'm neither guilty of perverting the Word nor conservative. I probably agree with all the MOAR WORDS (and you) 99% of the time. Howeever, there's poetry and beauty in that there book (otherwise, why do we talk of perverting? and/or adulturating?) And if it's not all crap, then DOK, let's agree not to take random potshots and unsolicited and unwarranted critiques. Otherwise, "they" could say, huh, that site is pretty hateful. And I would much rather it stay loveably snarky.
Oooh burn.
Seriously? You're looking at a blingeed picture of some Nordic motherfucker cosplaying Christ, and your problem is with the bling? I'd be more concerned that the son of god apparently has a Jindal-sized whitey complex.
That wasn't Jesus coming, just some seagull shit. False alarm.
I am confused. By "random potshots" and "unwarranted critiques" do you mean like pointing out that Lot offered his virgin daughters to the crowd to rape, or that those daughters later got him drunk and fucked him so that they could bear him sons? And that oddly, Lot is somehow seen as a "good guy"? I don't call that a random potshot. I call it pointing out the serious inconsistencies (there are many more) within the "Good Book" which in my mind limits its efficacy as a guide for a moral life.
Hey, super--I get jolted sometimes by rude images, too: just remember not to conflate the symbol with the substance. This being Wonkette, "sacred cows make the best hamburger." As Blue Lights notes below, the only things not funny here are rape and death threats.However, why can't Jesus be sexy? I know that according to Buddhism, only the lower chakras are stimulated by fleshly appetites, and once you're meditating on the Divine, the higher chakras start pinging, and the lower ones shut down. At least, that's my limited understanding. But people don't have to be eye candy to have sex appeal, and I bet a lot of people were turned on by Jesus back in the day. Good oratory can be pretty exciting.
I've posted this before, but it seems appropriate to post again. One man's blasphemy is another man's hilarity.
Point taken--Godspell was so radical in imagining the love that Jesus' followers had for him as romantic and/or sexual. However, as much as our culture is obsessed with sex, so many other and earlier cultures were obsessed with death. So do you think sex is at the root of all human behavior or death? I would argue it depends. And "Why do you weep?" happens to be one of the more beautiful lines in the NT. I think when you start getting fundamentalist, you so equate the other (here, Christians) with evil that you can't stop and think wait, is this a fair jab or gratuitous one? I think it's fair to point out hypocricy all day long, but this was too far and I thought I should say so. Although comments are definitely not allowed.
Because a collection of writings going back over 3,000 years needs to be perfectly consistent (according to our modern ideals) or it's trash? I am not a fundamentalist, so I don't read the Bible as perfect, or immutable. I also don't quote the Bible in a quest to dominate or hurt others. POF can do nuance just like atheists and those fallen away.