Subj : Re: religion quiz To : alt.tv.farscape From : Jim Larson Date : Wed Sep 07 2005 21:00:10 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape Nick wrote: > Chaya wrote: > >> Tyler Trafford wrote: >> >>> Nick wrote: >>>> Nick wrote: >>>> >>>>> Tyler Trafford wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Nick wrote: >>>>>>> Jim Larson wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> weirdwolf wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Trouble wrote in >>>>>>>>> news:e7mdnUw5H4cD2oPeRVn- rQ@comcast.com: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> weirdwolf wrote: >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> I don't believe in either heaven or hell. It's one of those >>>>>>>>>>> beliefs without any evidence that seem to abound when you >>>>>>>>>>> mention you are an athiest, like the one that because we don't >>>>>>>>>>> follow the rules layed down by some guy off his rocker in the >>>>>>>>>>> desert that we have no morals at all. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Wait you mean to tell me that fucker got lost in the desert for >>>>>>>>>> fourty years and you expect me to FOLLOW him... >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> And it's not as though it's a BIG desert, I mean the Sahara I >>>>>>>>> might be able to believe. Maybe he just didn't want to ask for >>>>>>>>> directions, you know all the Israelites behind him going are we >>>>>>>>> there yet? are we there yet? can I eat the picnic? NO you'll get >>>>>>>>> it all over the place, you can have your milk and honey when we >>>>>>>>> get there. Be fair though he did give the earliest example of >>>>>>>>> ghost writing ever known, of course it was writing of his own >>>>>>>>> death and the events afterward but whats a little thing like >>>>>>>>> snuffing it to a guy like that. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> You realize you're all going to hell, right? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> (The lapsed Catholic in me needed to say that.) >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> (purgatory) >>>>>>> (Now drop and give me 56 Hail Marys and a novena) >>>>>> >>>>>> (I seem to recall that Catholics don't believe in purgatory.) >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> (YEARS of church school.) >>>>> >>>>> Apparently they were wasted years. >>>>> Catholics are the ones who do believe in purgatory. >>>>> >>>> >>>> (13 years of catholic school) >>> >>> Hmm, I could have sworn a nun told me... oh well, I must have just got >>> it backwards. >> >> >> I was raised Catholic--we definitely believed in Purgatory. >> > > And you let it all go? :O > I am calling Sister Gloria[1] right away! > > [1] My elementary school principal. > Was she of the whacking variety? I had IHM nuns. They were, and I say this with the greatest affection, hardasses. -- Jim .