What Francis did was to call out the sins of the privileged class--greed, avarice, exploitation, calloused indifference to the suffering of others, war, and presumption. His focus on the evils of predators among us is the source of this particular attack.

-Laelth

Odin promised to defeat the Frost Giants.

I don't see any Frost Giants around.

In the meantime, the Frost Giants are doing a pretty good job around here. The last several mornings we've had to send out rescue parties to break dogs loose from fire hydrants.

(ducks)

I prefer to dip cracker Jesus in blood. It takes away the dryness.

but I always thought this is where the origins of Vampirism sprang ... I just cannot figure out werewolves origin ....????

They can be either male or female.

Maybe a hirsute male or female ate cracker Jesus during a full moon.

But mocking religious faith is ugly.

Thread, would they feel welcome?

A progressive adult person of faith with a child like ignorance about God and faith could imagine a lot of vampires in drinking the blood of Jesus ...

It's ridiculous, superstitious, and rooted in absolutely nothing but scaring and controlling the population. And giving the leaders power.

because I did not want them to be funny ....

Now on the other hand, I can make fun of my own beliefs 24/7 ....

beliefs as a child learns and accepts and then as an adults mature thoughts about religiosity...

and yes, we all sometimes need to review our "get on the stump and scream button" on these blogs ...

when we can perceive only one of them.

Religion recognized that long before science did.

there's also a lot of ignorance when looking at it from the outside.

holes suck

the raison d'etre for many religions, including the R.C. Church. If the Pope abolished sin, he'd be out of a job.

Not to mention the "original sin" "on your soul" that needs to be erased as quickly as possible by Christening?

Anyone else here of a certain age who remembers this stuff from a Catholic education?

It took me an hour to inflate this sheep.

Nope.
The oil companies learned it from the Catholics. Refilling the tank of the soul is a guarantee of repeat business.
Of all sects with the Christian realm, I've always like the Unitarian Universalists, which believe that when Jesus died for our sins, he did so for everyone forever.
Unitarians are still a small church.

What's different is that he has dared to speak out about neo-liberal economic policy and call it the failure that it is.