Do you have a favorite bit of religious trivia?

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TheloniousMonkey

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I now have a new one:

"In his book De Praeputio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi Diatriba, the 16th century Christian scholar Leo Allatius states that after the circumcision of Jesus, His foreskin rose into the heavens and expanded to become the rings of the planet Saturn."

This is going to keep me happy for weeks. =0)
 
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MaurogIII

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My favorite used to be that the whole affair with Jesus and the adulteress and "he who is without sin shall cast the first stone" was not in the original Bible and is a latter addition.

But I think I have a new favorite.
 
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mmlly1

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Well I found this verse in the Bible to be helpful...Proverbs 31:6 "Give beer to those who are perishing, wine to those who are in anguish."


But for a bit of "trivia", this is from a fundie regular here...“Do you realize that the G-spot in the anus was created for feces, so it would not hurt people when it was excreted?”


ROFL
 
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IAmRisen

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My favorite part of the bible is the part where Jesus tells his disciples that he will return and rapture the good souls before his message was heard in each city of Israel.

Since the whole of Israel has heard of Jesus, and we are still here, it is safe to conclude that the bible is fiction.
 
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RadioJingles

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Someone once told me that Mary was married previously, but her first husband died. Under Mosaic law, women could not inherit property, etc. Therefore, she was instead married off to her first cousin, Joseph.

Making Jesus the offspring of two first cousins...
 
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EW

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Well, at one point, there were about 15 or twenty of "Jesus' foreskins" floating around Europe as relics. He must have had a very unusual physique!!

In addition, from my point of view, the tradition of religious circumcision was begun thousands of years ago by an old man who heard voices and saw visions. The voices told him to first kill his son as a sacrifice to a god, and then at the last minute changed, and told him to mutilate his son's penis by circumcision. Such an individual nowadays would be diagnosed as schizophrenic, and considered a danger to himself or others, and would be locked up and medicated.

In antiquity, crazy people who heard voices and saw things that weren't there were thought to be "touched by the gods," hence the term "touched" for an indivual who is crazy.


Circumcision is a fraud and a hoax.

A foreskin is not a birth defect; it is a birthright.

ERIC
 
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EricK1

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The New Testament contains only four Gospels because an early Church Father named Ireneaus put forth the idea that there could be four, and only four, divinely inspired accounts of Jesus' life. His reasoning? Analogy from the four winds and the four corners of the Earth. I kid you not.

"It is not possible that the Gospels can be either more or fewer in number than they are. For, since there are four zones of the world in which we live, and four principal winds, while the Church is scattered throughout all the world, and the "pillar and ground" of the Church is the Gospel and the spirit of life; it is fitting that she should have four pillars, breathing out immortality on every side, and vivifying men afresh. ... For the living creatures are quadriform, and the Gospel is quadriform, as is also the course followed by the Lord. For this reason were four principal covenants given to the human race: one, prior to the deluge, under Adam; the second, that after the deluge, under Noah; the third, the giving of the law, under Moses; the fourth, that which renovates man, and sums up all things in itself by means of the Gospel, raising and bearing men upon its wings into the heavenly kingdom."

By such "arguments" history and culture are shaped. Amazing.
 
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FatherEarl

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My living room is a war zone, the kitchen table a Command Center, and my house is bombarded. Not by ghosts from some distant tortured soul but by something much more fierce. It is bombarded by real devils with real agendas to try and destroy what God is trying to accomplish. How do you fight such a battle? This is not exhaustive by any means but I will hit some high points and hope that the ensuing discussion will take us deeper.

Sitting in a comfy lazy recliner watching another favorite episode of some “can’t miss” (false) reality show, an unnerving feeling comes on you like something is hunting your child. Some weird twist in the show takes your mind off your uneasiness. You laugh at some goofy take. The feeling returns but with a presence. For the first time you look away from the TV and you see a shadow on the porch. The door comes crashing in with glass shattering and wood splintering. Your worst fear, your child is between you and the maniac with blood lust in his eyes and specifically your child’s blood. Helplessness settles on you like a dense fog, what should you do?
 
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bob1

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I like the Oneidians. (The founders of the Oneida silverware company.

In 1848 John Humphrey Noyes founded a Utopian commune based on the idea that Jesus Christ had already returned to mankind in the year 70 AD, meaning they were free to live a perfect life without sin on Earth as well as in Heaven.

Their idea of perfection included the concept of complex marriage, which in its simplest terms meant that every man was married to every woman, and exclusive or romantic pairings were discouraged. Even couples married before entering the community were expected to open their marriage to this lifestyle. According to the records, the average female member of the community had three ‘interviews’ a week with different partners.
 
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