As this picture indicates, religious activists have made great strides into breaking into inter-species faith-based initiatives.
The success of evangelical animal activists, however, has magnified the widely held belief that cats are largely atheists.
The move into canine Christians may be a response to a recent poll showing that scientists polled at the National Academy of Sciences indicate that disbelief in God and immortality among biological scientists was 65.2% and 69.0%.
By tapping into other species, the numbers of practicing religious individuals would be exponentially increased, adding both political and social support. Some dog breed seem bred for the role like St. Bernards.
Of course, Tibetan Mastiff, Tibetan Spaniels, Tibetan Terriers tend to be Buddhist and Japanese Chins tend to be Shintos. However, Boston Terriers and Italian Greyhounds are uniformly Catholic.
Irish Setters, Irish Terriers, Irish Water Spaniels, and Irish Wolfhound remain divided between protestants and Catholics.
Scottish Terriers, English Bulldogs, English Foxhounds, English Cocker Spaniels, Shetland Sheepdogs, Welsh Springer Spaniels, Welsh Terriers, and Scottish Deerhounds have been claimed by the Anglican Church.
Pharaoh Hounds have been claimed by Muslims.
and bunts,
Those could be Shar-Peis. Everyone knows they’re loose.
bunts,
Many dogs have been known to stray as well.
I have only been able to check in a couple times while I am in litigation on a couple of cases. But I have noticed a lot of bad language and personal attacks of late. I deleted a bunch of blogs with foul language. Please keep in mind that this site is set aside for civil discussion. We have a high level of energy and passion at this site, but we try to distinguish this site from other sites in retaining a civil level of discourse. I appreciate your help.
The perceived threat was totally unintentional, Jill.
Praise FSM, all o’ y’all. Here’s to noodles and poodles.
pardon me,
After you threatened me as an atheist I remembered I am a devotee of FSM! My belief is strong–I have the symbol affixed to my car!!! The bounties of FSM are beyond compare. FSM’s wrath, even greater. In a trance I saw AK being swept up in a vortex of spaghetti–so there!
pardon me:
Turned away? I would nominate that soul for President!
So if one believes in the Flying Spaghetti Monster (Spaghedeity), he/she won’t be turned away from jury duty in Dumas?
Jericho:
“Guys, keep thy religion to thyself and don’t argue with any fools/nutcases because people may not see the difference!”
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I dub you Father Jericho and pledge my allegiance to you as the founder of a new and glorious religion based on this wisdom alone. We can work around that crucifixion and resurrection stuff, and then we can build big ornate gilded buildings to pay you homage,and outfit them with gem-encrusted fixtures paid for with the alms and indulgences of poor widows we scare into believing their going to Hell because they ate hot dogs on Tuesday (a cardinal sin in our religion–venial, if you just eat them with ketchup) unless they do. I’ll start an order of neophytes to sing your praises, and then we’ll convince the poorest and least educated among us that you are descended from on-high aided only by a virgin, and that you, through the efforts of your infinite wisdom created the earth and the heavens, foretold all of the future, and franchised the first McDonalds Drive-ins. We’ll get you dazzling robes, a pointy hat, crooked stick , and you can wade through the crowds performing the magic tricks we saw on YouTube and amaze those who are amazed at just about anything (I’m thinking guys like “lester” or “dogbone” here.) Finally we’ll pack you off to heaven in a shiny gold limousine (repleat with a few veil wearing virgins)then we’ll tell everyone you ascended into the clouds (once we’re out of sight of all those gaping townsfolk from Georgia, of course),and you can get a job working at a Burger King in Minneapolis, where periodically, ladies fresh off another enlightening session of “Guiding Light,” can see you; breathlessly call the National Enquirer (or the Republican National Committee Office of Theocracy), and squeal about your divine sighting. It will be more than glorious, it’ll be divine,and then we’ll get followers like dogbone and lester to change history and then rail against the non-suckers who see right through us. We get lots of respect you know–after all, we are a religion!
All you strays better watch out for rehabilitation/brain washing in the Arkansas pounds, especially if you’re in the vicinity of Devil’s Den.
U.S. Constitution. Art. VI, sec. 3
“[N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.”
Ever is strong language.
Let’s see how Arkansas fares at the Federal Courts. Not even that tool Scalia can worm his way around that.
Listen here ye atheists and atheist sympathizers (commies)–sit down and shut up–here’s a good one!
“An Arkansas legislator has proposed letting voters decide whether to lift the state’s constitutional restrictions on atheists.
Amendment 19 of the Arkansas Constitution says “No person who denies the being of a God shall hold any office in the civil departments of this state, nor be competent to testify as a witness in any court.”
(AP)
Whoolie,
Thanks for the information. It sounds tasty. Especially with a Grape Nehi! It has been a long time since I thought about a Grape Nehi. Probably since the TV show Mash. Grape Nehi was Radar’s fav.
whoolie,
I don’t know if Lance was still making those in my days of snack crackers and RC, but they sure do sound good. Thanks! And I do love a Nehi.
Four corner nab was run together as one word. (Spoken rapidly)
A nab was made by the Lance company: a round, chocolate cookie product and a cracker product which consisted of peanut butter between two orange colored, square crackers.
Thus a forcornernab as opposed to a nab.
This is early 50’s farm hand lingo from N.C. ‘crappin backer’ (cropping tobacco) days.
An R.C. Cola and a moon pie. A big orange and a forcornernab.
And, yes a Nehi.
“According to the Gospel of John, the Pharisees, in an attempt to discredit Jesus, brought a woman charged with adultery before him.”
Lester,
Too bad you’re not really as serious about your religious beliefs as you profess to be. Were you, you would know that although Jesus saying was spot on, the rest of it was unhistorical. The Gospel of John was probably the latest written of the Gospels, it was also the most anti-Jewish Gospel.
It reflected the fact that the Romans had sacked Jerusalem, destroyed the Temple and were displacing the Jews from Israel, so Judaism seemed doomed and being associated with them was bad for the nascent Christian Movement. More importantly though, the overwhelming majority of Jews rejected Jesus as the Son of God.
This made them angry since a big part of their belief was that Christianity was the successor to Judaism and in the process they had appropriated the Torah. That the Jews wouldn’t play along was an affront to them. The writer of John thus was angry with the Jews and did his best to cast them in a bad light. This was interesting since Jesus, his Apostles and his successor James (his brother)were all observant Jews.
The major inaccuracy of this passage though is that it would be Pharisees who were doing this. The Pharisees, historical record and writings prove this, were liberal interpreters of the Torah. The were known, in writings that pre-date Jesus by at least one hundred years to have been ingenious in finding ways around the harsher dictum’s of the Torah. They would not be in favor of stoning prostitutes. Beyond that though most of Jesus’ teachings, like the Golden Rule, were long term Pharisee teachings and it is almost certain that Jesus was a Pharisee Rabbi.
The reason this all had to be edited was that when the Roman hijacked Christianity to serve Constantine’s needs, they had to make the Pharisees look bad and divorce Jesus from them. This was because the Pharisees were the leaders of all the Jewish rebellions against Rome. It is highly probable that Jesus was a rebel leader and that as was put on his cross claimed to be King of the Jews based on Davidic ancestry. That was the real crime he was tried for because claiming to be the Jewish King without the Emperor’s approval was considered treason by the Romans.
By the way I’m not asking you to believe me, all of what I stated is readily available to read and make up your own mind about. I truthfully wish you well on your spiritual journey, but true faith is impossible without real knowledge of what that faith is based upon.
Does that mean rhetoric is a grope on a slippery slope?
“Philosophy is a walk on a slippery rock. Religion is a smile on a dog.”
— Edie Brickell
Jack,
Please. I do have some restraint! 😉 And as much as I hate to quote Dennis Miller, “Stop me before I sub-reference again!”
raff,
I’ll have to say whoolie’s got me stumped on that one too. It’s not a Louisiana-ism I’ve ever heard, but I believe the grape he refers to is the Grape Nehi. whoolie, please correct me as needed.
Buddha is Laughing:
Thanks. There’s no need for Christian Nation/Secular Nation debates to degenerate into battles of quotes from letters that John Adams wrote to his cousin’s sister-in-law.
roflmao