did you know xians had a special odor that non-xians didn't have?

http://newsobserver.com/news/story/2233207p-8613419c.html

Church-state lesson learned
School admits it crossed line

A fifth-grader's family is suing the Cumberland County school system because her teacher used a Christian text that preached creationism and encouraged children to proselytize for Jesus.

The suit, filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Raleigh, says that a teacher at Sunnyside Elementary School in Fayetteville assigned students readings that included the lesson "Scents Make Sense."

"God's word tells us about a kind of odor only Christians have ...," the lesson read. "Christians carry forth the fragrance of Christ wherever they go by the way they live; that is, they remind people of Him.

"Could someone find Christ by the scent trail you are leaving behind you?"
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the religiously insane are dangerous and in need of therapy

home schooling is looking better every day

By definition, you take the bible literally.


Any attempt to describe it as metaphor is blasphemy.

distinguising "real Christians" from people just claiming to be Christians? We hear about people who appear to be Christians but when they're found to be living a life very contrary to a Christian life, we're told they aren't "real Christians." If Christians have a different odor than this shouldn't come up. Have people sniffed on the way into church. If people are faking it, then it'll be obvious and the churches can turn them away.

Kind of a rhetorical question . . .

and the moral honesty to recognize hypocrisy are two different skills.

Both are lacking here.

That's fucking crazy.

n/t

I've got to mention to someone at church that the last two Sundays it's tasted like maybe we need to get out a new bottle. Either that or the wine crusher had athletes foot. Raghth.

No Holy Roller sweat though. We're too Lutheran, and more specifically, Norwegian for that. A reserved folk, donthca know.

As much as I would prefer to use wine, most of the conservative brances prefer the "non-alcoholic alternative," brought to you courtesy of Mr. Welch.

(True story: Welch's grape juice was developed so that the Southern Methodist churches could have communion without alcohol. Just another FYI, free of charge. :) )

I don't think fundies use wine for communion. They do baptisms but don't do most of the rituals that Catholics and Episcopalians do.

It's my guess this woman is a fundie, likely Baptist. There are a LOT of those in the South. They speak in tongues, do healings, snake handlings and other magical rituals.

Wasn't it the Nazi belief that Jews had a different smell then
non-Jews?

Teaching religiophobia using our tax dollars. What a sham but I'm not suprised this happened in Fayetteville. Fayetteville is a low income, high crime area right outside of Ft. Bragg military base. Scary place. :scared:

Fayetteville is my hometown. With all the shit that people have to put up with there, this really takes the cake. The schools are underfunded, thanks to an NC Supreme Court ruling that declared the state can inequitably disburse funds among the counties. The crime rate is 2d in the state (yay for Durham) and the city's economy is almost totally based on providing services for Ft. Bragg. I highly doubt that there was any misunderstanding on the law in this case. I've seen and heard of too many misdeeds by school administrators in the area to believe that a school would fail to ensure that a teacher, presumably certified, would be ignorant of the law.

This teacher is full of shit. That's a smell I wouldn't be proud of.

From "Crap I Drew On My Lunch Break" (crap.jinwicked.com) by the very talented Jinn Wicked.

On Edit: Doesn't want to come through for some reason. Go here instead.

http://crap.jinwicked.com/?j=145

TlalocW

Purity Soap - for those who are washed in the Blood of Christ.

Which I'll be marketing towards the Catholic community - real body of Christ flavor in every bite. Wash it down with Blood of Christ 100% Natural Grape Juice then clean up with Purity Soap.

TlalocW

i'm all about product tie-ins.


*lol*@Jeez-its, btw. that's hilarious.

....ROTFLMAO

then we can make good honest Jesus Money, and give it to progressives. *lol*

comes with a free shower cap that resembles papal headgear.

More or less, anyway. Miracle Soap:

http://www.miracle2.net/product/product_m2soap.asp

Check out the ingredients, one of which is: prayer. The inventor is a complete loon (or maybe not, since he presumably makes money selling it to loons).

all hail free christian enterprise!

behind.

...she said she did buy the book here.

I guess America isn't the ONLY "land of the crazy 'Christians.'"

beyond national borders.

Geez, folks - if I smell, then TELL ME! I'm not against bathing.

"Fragrance of Christ" my foot.

The aroma that comes from attending witch burnings, no doubt.

:evilgrin:

alchemy has replaced science.

We send up a "sweet savour" unto God, by living in Christ, with true belief and holy works. A way of life which believes the truth firmly and without equivocation, and lives righteously in this truth,. is pleasing to God. It leads those who are of the same mind to life, but to those who are opposed to Christ, it is a bitter smell.

"Whether, saith he, one be saved or be lost, the Gospel continues to have its proper virtue: and as the light, although it blindeth the weakly, is still light, though causing blindness; and as honey, though it be bitter to those who are diseased, is in its nature sweet; so also is the Gospel of sweet savor, even though some should be lost who believe it not." (St John Chrysostom)

Either to con "god" that they smell nice or to cover up their bitter odor.

You know you can believe any sort of dogma you choose, but some of us will continue to shout "TRIPE!" when tripe is served.

This comes under the heading of "WWJW," or "Why Would Jesus WEEP?"

"How Would Jesus Smell?"

to back up that, er, extraordinary assertion?

and you would have to BELIEVE it to accept it, so.... your call.

I prefer the "evidence-based" approach (as opposed to the "because god said so" approach).

sez who?

listen friend, I understand that you have a monopoly on Truth. You are perfectly free to believe whatever you want. But you must know that the insufferable arrogance that you and your ilk wear on your sleeves is one of your least endearing aspects. Arrogance in the promotion of a body of literature which appears to me to be a mishmash of ancient mythology(older than the world is claimed to be!), politics, posturing, poetry, philosphy and raving is questionable, to say the least.

If you showed a bit of the humility of your savior you might get more of a hearing from us heathens.

I BELIEVE I'll go home and have a beer.

But it's a funny one!

Funny.

nt

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for example, Revelations... and the writers of the Bible were supposed to have used a lot of hyperbole in their style. Just because everyone doesn't believe the "scent" thing, it doesn't mean we discard the Bible completely.

I agree. I did not mean to imply otherwise. It just gets to frustrating when the neo-cons call me/us "non-Christians" by their actions (and even words at time) - and then come here to my safe-zone and boom... I get it again. Odd.

Pobrecito.

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THAT was a mean thing to do. I am a Democrat, I detest the Shrub and I suppose some would call me a fundie because I do believe the entire Word to be HIS Word... but to send an alert? THAT was just meanness.

The corollary to that repulsive statement would be that the Repugs won because they are more sanctified, or something utterly assinine like that.

An Aleut woman whom I was talking to at a lunch counter in downtown Anchorage Alaska many years ago told me that white people had a definite odor to them. This is a true story.

:evilgrin:

he had to come to the front to get some fresh air - i heard him mention that it wasnt perfume or anything specific, just the smell of white people...

learn something each day

...said about all of the different races.

I guess it's all in the nose of the beholder.

For instance, some vegetarians say they can tell people who eat meat from their smell.

Smell of Jesus air fresheners some of us were working on last week....complete the set with the Smell of Jesus candles.

I thought it was a cat with dysentery, but it was just a bible thumper.

At least now I'll know more exactly how far I can trust them.

tip top.

and the Christians™ craizes who live here.

sanctimonious bullshit has an unmistakable odor.


--MAB

I grew up on a farm, and also have chronic sinus problems.

Personally, I think there is some (metaphorical) truth to the statement. People who truly admire Jesus will subconsciously emulate him, or at least their understanding of him, in small and subtle ways.

So, do any of the following remind you of Jesus?





(EDIT: This message payed for by the "United Long-Hairs of America" and does not represent the opinions of crew-cut, short-haired "decent" people)

That reminds me of my daughters friends who say "we don't sweat, we glisten".

I'll have to go sniff my neighbors, a lot of them are Christian. I'll get back with y'all later on their aroma.

for the Daily Show.

I thought this was a joke headline at first.

My country scares me.

If Christians have a unique smell, research could determine the chemicals involved, and detectors could be built. Church doors could be fitted with devices which would sound an alarm when someone who was not a true believer passed through. New presidents (and biology teachers) would have to pass the smell test. Airports could screen prospective travellers (because we all know that terrorists aren't Christian).:crazy:

in the Middle Ages a sign of Schizophrenia?

That smell isn't eau de Jesus, it's bad brain chemistry.

the 'sweet odor' was from this:
http://www.cannabisculture.com/backissues/cc11/christ.html

I have no idea if that's true though.