Atheists & Agnostics
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(42,152 posts)Because our intellect is too much for kids.
onager
(9,356 posts)And the priests can handle the kids.
DavidDvorkin
(19,479 posts)immoderate
(20,885 posts)Took a look at their page.
--imm
EvolveOrConvolve
(6,452 posts)But fuck me, it's not.
Here's a pic of one of their "authors":
Seriously, if that guy starts "witnessing" to kids, I'm calling the cops.
sakabatou
(42,152 posts)EvolveOrConvolve
(6,452 posts)I dunno, I didn't find any page that claimed it as parody or satire. Unfortunately, it's impossible now to tell parody from the real thing.
sakabatou
(42,152 posts)EvolveOrConvolve
(6,452 posts)deucemagnet
(4,549 posts)Either way, I think I want a Baby Jesus shirt.
http://www.cafepress.com/objectivemin/568765
On edit: After seeing the Baby Jesus Anti-Fornication Thong ($9.50, Made in the USA), I'm leaning towards "satire".
frogmarch
(12,153 posts)it's so out there, it's hard to tell.
I want one of these bumper stickers
Former Sperm Bumper Sticker
Let fellow motorists (and former sperms) know your position against the willful wasting of unconceived human life. It'll really make them think.
frogmarch
(12,153 posts)snips:
So will someone please tell me if Objective Ministries is a real creationist/Christian site or if it's just a really straight-faced parody?
I go back and forth. I see no smileys, so I think it's real. Then I run across this:
Fellowship Baptist Creation Science Fair 2001
2nd Place: "Women Were Designed For Homemaking"
Jonathan Goode (grade 7) applied findings from many fields of science to support his conclusion that God designed women for homemaking: physics shows that women have a lower center of gravity than men, making them more suited to carrying groceries and laundry baskets; biology shows that women were designed to carry un-born babies in their wombs and to feed born babies milk, making them the natural choice for child rearing; social sciences show that the wages for women workers are lower than for normal workers, meaning that they are unable to work as well and thus earn equal pay; and exegetics shows that God created Eve as a companion for Adam, not as a co-worker.
And I feel like I'm reading the Onion.
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DanielJul 3, 2006 07:16 PM
I have to confess -- I got punk'd. It's a spoof.
But, boy, they had me going.
I'm relieved, but faintly disappointed.
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snowqueenJul 4, 2006 04:34 PM
This was my favourite page:
http://www.objectiveministries.org/creation/projectpterosaur.html
I love the idea that velociraptors are currently terrorising goat herders in Peru! lmao
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It has to be a parody site....doesn't it?
Stuckinthebush
(10,845 posts)But not far from being real!
OrwellwasRight
(5,170 posts)"If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple."
Does the bible really say that? That seems weird, even for the bible.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,320 posts)It's correct - King James' Version: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%2014&version=KJV
A few other versions explain it as 'must hate everyone else by comparison' or 'are not ready to abandon', which makes a little sense in the context of the chapter. http://bible.cc/luke/14-26.htm It's still harsh, though.
OrwellwasRight
(5,170 posts)Even the "not ready to abandon interpretation" (which is at least more consistent with the commandment to honor they father and they mother and perhaps not wholly inconsistent with the golden rule) sounds cultish to me.
SamG
(535 posts)Seriously, if We have a hard time figuring it out, I'm sure the satire goes over the head of many religious believers.