Subj : Re: religion quiz
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Chaya
Date : Wed Sep 07 2005 23:21:10

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Nick wrote:

> Jim Larson wrote:
> 
>> Nick wrote:
>> 
>>> Chaya wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Tyler Trafford wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Nick wrote:
>>>>>> Nick wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Tyler Trafford wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Nick wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Jim Larson wrote:
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> weirdwolf wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> Trouble <troubleNOSPAM@tekfactory.com> 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.
> 
> She was primarily the evil figurehead.  
> There were other designated whackers.
> 
> Have you guys read "The Last Catholic in America" and 
> "Do Black Patent-Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up"?
> 
> Both books are about growing up in Catholic school.
> "Last Catholic" is elementary school and "Patent-Leather" is high 
> school.  I find them hysterical.  My wife finds them horrifying.
> Ahhh, the memories.
> 

I was glad to have avoided Catholic school.  Just had to deal with
CCD...

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