Comments on: Spaceship Jesus Will Come Back and Whisk Us Away

By: PSquared

PSquared — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:01:02 +0000

If you don’t believe in an afterlife or Heaven, then why do you believe there is a “Hell”?

By: Mark D

Mark D — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:10:57 +0000

What few believers in the rapture, left behind theology know is how new this theology is. It only started about 170 years ago in Scotland, when a teenage girl name Margaret McDonald
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_McDonald_(visionary)

By: Metro

Metro — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:10:43 +0000

Well there was Halliburton and KBR … Nice company to be in, if you’re into comparisons.

The difference, of course, is that Halliburton doesn’t claim to be the spiritual guidance for millions of people, doesn’t pretend to moral authority (rather the opposite), and isn’t usually allowed to be in charge of orphanages, schools, or hospitals despite a long history of interference with children.

By: Metro

Metro — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:07:19 +0000

Yeah, the Rapture was due September 21st, I think. However, teh godz mucked up the schedule, and it turns out to actually be due on October 21st.

Uh-oh …

Check this space tomorrow for further announcements. Okay? Please?

By: rodneyAnonymous

rodneyAnonymous — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:27:43 +0000

(Also, said school district would lose any moral authority they had, right?)

By: rodneyAnonymous

rodneyAnonymous — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:10:59 +0000

I think an organization whose employees are in frequent contact with children and in positions of power (like, say, elementary schools, or churches) should be extra-special-careful about vetting applicants for tendencies toward child molestation. The RCC went in the completely opposite direction, hiding and protecting their child molesters.

If it was discovered that a particular school district had a bunch of teachers that were molesting children, and the school district (all the way up to the superintendent, who knows about the problem) engaged in a conspiracy to protect the molesters and hide the truth from the childrens’ parents and the police, you’d be crazy not to be pissed off.

By: Custador

Custador — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:17:36 +0000

Seconded! The sooner these retards get raptured, the sooner they can piss off and leave the rest of us alone!

By: JonJon

JonJon — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:46:59 +0000

Nope. I could be proven wrong I suppose, but I’d need to see data.

The problem is that the number of Catholic priests in the US is such a tiny proportion of the total population.

I don’t think its inconsistent for a pedophile to actively attempt to attain positions of close contact with, and power over, children. Call me crazy.

By: rodneyAnonymous

rodneyAnonymous — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:43:12 +0000

It is not one or a few employees that did something terrible, and it is not something that happened once or a few times. The RCC does in fact have a monopoly on hundreds of child molesters (“corrupt employees”, heh) getting covered for hundreds of years.

By: rodneyAnonymous

rodneyAnonymous — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:38:18 +0000

Do you think that there are more pedophiles per capita working for the Catholic church than there are in the population at large?

Do you think there are more pedophiles in positions of power and authority and in frequent close contact with children per capita working for the Catholic church than there are in the population at large?

By: JonJon

JonJon — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:15:10 +0000

NAMBLA = Why the radical personal freedom advocates in the US scare the living hell out of me.

By: JonJon

JonJon — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:13:41 +0000

A friend of mine just told me that a child is more likely to be abused in public school than catholic school. not ground-breaking information, to be sure.

But crazy people wanted to give Michael Jackson the nobel prize…

I don’t think the argument holds up, to be frank. People never support an institution for the mistakes it makes. Every institution makes mistakes. The US government has officials embroiled in scandal every month. No corporations ever took money given them in good faith by their customers and did something unethical with it… oh wait.

Do you think that there are more pedophiles per capita working for the Catholic church than there are in the population at large?

There are legitimate beefs with Catholicism. Unethical behavior is certainly one of them. I’m not getting that you are primarily upset with individual catholics who participated in unethical cover-ups, though. I’m seeing a blanket condemnation of an organization, *and every single member of it*, no matter their involvement in unethical activity. Which I don’t think is particularly fair. If you think every Catholic is responsible for the actions of a few bad ones, I’m gonna have to disagree.

By: JonJon

JonJon — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:02:08 +0000

“It’s going to take more that young evangelicals reading “Blue Like Jazz,” and flocking to trendy megachurchs to turn it around.”

Of course it is. That’s why I think it could go either way.

If you think the traditional “religious right” is going to win out by default, I really don’t agree. Yes, they have political backing, but I don’t see that they have that much of a future.

By: JonJon

JonJon — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:58:34 +0000

Nobody else ever covered up something terrible done by their employees?

If you honestly think the Catholic church has a monopoly on corrupt employees, then whatever…

By: Olaf

Olaf — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:29:32 +0000

Let’s hope that the rapture is real and very soon. Then we have finally our peace. LOL