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Pastafarian Wins Right To Wear Colander In License Photo
gregmon writes "An Austrian follower of the Flying Spaghetti Monster has finally won the right to don the religious headgear of his choosing (a spaghetti strainer) in his driving license photo. After a three year battle with the un-enlightened Austrian authorities, Niko Aim can now wear his colander in all official photos."
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The question is why don't they do the same psychiatric evaluation on Jews who mutilate children penises?
He showed all apparent seriousness in the belief that the apocalyptic end of history was Coming Real Soon Now
What the fuck?
http://bible.cc/matthew/24-36.htm
“No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son,f but only the Father.
If by "Coming Real Soon" you meant "He had NO IDEA when it would happen" then you're correct. Or if you were talking about John the Baptist.
http://niv.scripturetext.com/matthew/3.htmIn those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the Desert of Judea and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.”
Arguably that was just because Jesus was coming soon and he was (luckily or unluckily) born to be a prophet. I don't believe the Christ himself is ever attributed with saying "End of the world is coming soon to a planet near you!" or other such platitudes.
Also, if I'm remembering this right, Jesus only got pissed exactly two times in the Gospels. 1: When Peter tried to convince him NOT to sacrifice himself and 2: When he saw the Temple filled with commerce. Everything else he either listened and debated with, explained his beliefs and let people make their own decisions, or forgave people for slighting him. Which means despite his high-calibre religious enthusiasm, he wasn't really a fanatic, just deep in his faith.
I'm 100% behind you on the fact that most fanatics act out of weakness of self though. The primary problem with religion has always been that people follow without thought and blindly obey, or they take things to excessive measures because they believe it to be "faith" and "goodness." But...people have done atrocities for things that were not religiously motivated as well, so I still staunchly believe that although religion can be a tool for evil, it isn't evil in and of itself. Just that in two millenia, the crackpots really add up.
Disclaimer: I'm religious. Well...more generally theistic, but I go through the motions of Catholicism. I don't take my code of values from what the Church tells me, but formed my own system of values from the Gospels combined with living. Really boils down to a few things.
1: There is a God. May or may not care for us or act for/against us, but He is there. Doesn't really matter in our day to day life though.
2: There was a dude named Jesus with a pretty nice view of God and who lived a good life. Son of God? Eh, I don't really care.
3: Try to be like Jesus.
All that rot about heaven, hell, commandments, "God says this/that/there/whatever" that people preach on about is nothing I care about. Why should I care about heaven or hell? If I do good things just to get into heaven, then what the fuck is the point of doing good things? If I do good things because I want to go to hell, then what the fuck is the point of doing good things? Do good things TO DO GOOD THINGS. Don't do it for a reward or because you're afraid of a punishment, just do it for the sake of itself. What is good? Things that make other people happy. Things that don't hurt other people. Things that don't make you feel sick or uncomfortable because, if you think you're doing wrong, you're probably doing wrong.
Commandments? I'm sorry, the Old Testament is good but it's not really what Christianity is based on. When Jesus was asked which is the greatest of the commandments, he just tossed out his own two. When people yelled at him for healing on the Sabbath he shrugged it off. The rules of the Old Testament didn't bind Jesus, why should it bind me who follows him?
People saying God hates this or what? I'm sorry, excuse me, when did you meet God and when did he tell you this? You're extrapolating from the Bible? And from the OLD Testament? Well, sorry that uh...that dog won't hunt.
And please, please, please, stop saying that Christianity is the one true religion. How is that for me or you to decide? Just be as good a person as you can and let other people decide.