Therefore, I worship my furry beasties.

And Therein lies the problem.

Where did Disney turn animals into GODS ??? Just because he made animals anthropomorphic, but Disney wasn't the first.
Before Disney there were silent and near-silent animated cartoon characters like Crazy Cat and Felix the Cat, and before that comic strip characters, and before that we had Mother Goose stories and Aesop's Fables and even stuff that Disney eventually got around to drawing such as Uncle Remus and Puss in Boots and the Three Little Pigs and on and on.
And when did Disney tell us to WORSHIP animals???

This guy is a loon, which is, I think, a type of bird. Anthropomorphizing is as old as humankind. Early man told stories that involved animals! The ignorance of the religious right can be astounding.

Lewis Carroll wasn't. He was a little girl worshipper.

Only snakes and donkeys should be talking.

The bible doesn't reference the talking animals.

Numbers 22:30

Gen 3:1
I'm sure we'll now get lectures on subtle metaphor and sophisticated theology TM when the text clearly refers to literal animal speech, but no acceptance of metaphor when it refers to, for example, the great commission.

I'd apologize, but since you were able to be rude and have an opportunity to to say "fuck" to a stranger, it seems you got what you wanted. Good for you.

If you think profanities are so heinous, stop making easily disproven claims, to strangers no less, about facts which are common knowledge, and you won't get dismissive retorts including profanity.

That's not the problem. I do not see any purpose in continuing this conversation. Please mistreat someone else.

Always so ready to be persecuted. Try it from my side. Do you understand what it's like to live in a society where it's considered abnormal at best and wicked more likely to have a worldview based on facts and reason, when you are one of the minority who does so? Where there is a supermajority deeply committed to a mythology few of them understand and yet which they wish to impose as a guiding sticture on all human activity? How much deeper that bullshit becomes when you do understand that mythology yourself? Reject it, but understand it from years of academic study, its origins, its environment and historical milieu, its cultural and political growth, the higher criticism of its original writings? When you have to deal with smug ill-informed partisans of cultural ignorance who are partisans in technical ignorance.

I'm not going to ask forgiveness for intemperate responses after decades of dealing with people who make patently false claims about a book they claim to revere deeply but about which they are profoundly and spectacularly misguided. No I'm not talking here about pissant grade-school nonsense like the start of this subthread. That's a trivial example, although yes an example it is. Far more egregious ones are legion and from people who claim to know better and to care more. I've been told of the unity of scripture by people who think JEPD is a NASDAQ ticker symbol and that Galilean and Judean traditions refer to dress length. Of its singularity by people who are unaware of Canaanite and Elamite theology and who have never heard of Kuntillet Ajrud. Of its moral purity by people who don't know where Ruth lay down, think that 42 bears only show up in Paddington's family reunion, and don't even get the point of Ezekiel 23:20 in English let alone understand the oholah/oholibah in-joke. I mean it's enough to almost welcome their ignorance on matters they claim not to think are the supremely important guides to all life like pretending to understand, and abuse, the 2LOT but missing that it refers to closed systems and that big fucking orange ball in the sky might just be supplying some energy.

And it's not even just the RWNJs who at least have wilful ignorance and authoritarianism as core characteristics to excuse them. People who actually understand Hebrew and Koine Greek tend to get irritated with well-meaning apologists who confidently preach sententiously that ratsach only means murder when its used in scripture to refer to wars, executions and animal attacks, or that arsenokoitai refers to either temple prostitutes or pederasts when it's a compound of two extremely common words in the same fucking (pun intended) side by side combination the (commonly used by educated men like Paul) Greek translation of scripture deploys in Leviticus's prohibition of homosexuality. Then they try to explain away the red-letter clear description of hell as if JC, a mouthpiece few would say was unfond of metaphors, were actually being literal about the eternal fate of God's unsaved as being a rubbish dump in the Levant, even though its fire is long ago quenched, something an omniscient chappy should have known.

TL;DR version. When you are not ignorant of a book a large majority of your fellow citizens wish to impose as the ultimate authority in your shared society, it's hardly unreasonable to be pissy when they demonstrate that unfortunately, they are.

The Goat God! /s

Line from the animated series "The Critic"

that the only line I remember was from the opening: "It stinks!"

However, I did find it an interesting compare and contrast that Pan is the god of Shepherds and Flocks when those same terms are often used by Christians. Makes me wonder if that's another local custom they folded into their beliefs over the ages...

..."Evangelical Christian" ever since their Bible themeparks went bankrupt and gave benefits to same sex couples.

I knew the Bible had a talking animal in it somewhere, but couldn't recall where.

1) animals
2) animal rights
3) pagan gods
4) Disney

and if anyone was wondering - this guy here is Dagon:

1.) elect Ted Cruz President of the United States.
2.) Have a well armed organization that hunts down and arrests those who blaspheme
against god.
3.) Death Penalty to all Blasphemers
4.) deposit their charred remains 10 miles off shore of the US.
5.) MAKE sure their family is hunted down as well.
6.) Make the Christian god, the only god allowed in the United States.




Yeah, this is what the Christian Right, really want, their own form of Sharia Law!

You know, the end pieces we toss into the compost bin while munching on the rest.

They are probably a portal to a demonic realm, of course.

some of these people are really nuts. Also dipshit (that guy), animals do have feelings. Research, I know science, confirms it.

Bless David Barton's heart!

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Her father was Poseidon

But they were mer-people (Half Fish)
Is that what they mean??

Strange people indeed

Sun worship makes sense.
Cat worship makes sense. (I am of this faith.)
Tree worship makes sense.
Worship of some invisible fictional sky fairy makes zero sense.

Hey, that reminds me! In three seconds she'll forget that we worshiped her, so what's the big deal?