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My favourite facebook status quotes

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on July 4, 2008
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The blogging world is seeing less of me nowadays because facebook has been fighting for and won my attention. My online life started with forums, moved onto chatrooms, then into blogging and is now focussed on facebook. I've decided that my next online vice will be World of Warcraft. With facebook, I don't have to spend time trying to piece together coherent paragraphs, and that's sad for me because I'm a terrible writer who needs more practice. The trickiest part of facebook is updating the status quotes:
  • Peter now has 69 friends! And really, they're the best kind. PMSL
  • Peter is not a rocket surgeon
  • Peter is starting to collect small blue plastic things
  • Peter is nifty, thanks!
  • Peter is using facebook - go figure
  • Peter is si retep
  • Peter lives in a cynical world... a cynical world
  • Peter is a fairly boring name
  • Peter recommends the Green Thai Curry cashews from Coles. Seriously... WOW
  • Peter is warning everyone NOT to eat the green thai curry nuts from Coles
  • Peter saw The Incredible Hulk, and thought it was incredible... and Hulky
  • Peter Peter pumkin eater
  • Peter has changed his status again
  • Peter was running on the treadmill at the gym, listening to Les Miserables while reading a joke book and watching Rugby... and is okay with that

Crop Circles - I want to believe

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on July 3, 2008
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I haven't been fortunate enough for an alien or a god to make themselves known to me. Many others claim to have been lucky enough to have made contact with these fine fellows but I haven't and I don't think I actually ever will. Does having that attitude mean I'll be forever too cynical, skeptical and proud to admit to it when I finally do 'get a touch from the Lord'? No, it doesn't. You see, ever since I saw an extinct Tasmanian Tiger walking around my campsite last year I haven't stopped telling people about it. Despite everyone's smirk and a statement from the state meuseum, I'm certain of what I saw. If I do see a Grey in my backyard or an angel at my window, don't worry, I'll be door knocking and blogging like an idiot.

Thing is... I used to go door knocking espousing my religious beliefs to strangers and truly believed that I spoke a magic language that only God could understand. I WANTED to believe it and I allowed myself to. It's bloody amazing what we'll allow ourselves to be duped into believing. I WANT to believe in aliens too, because I think life would be more exciting with them around. Similarly, I think swimming in the ocean would be more exciting if there were mermaids in the water too, but I truly doubt they're in there.

I think it's a neat idea to have a magic kingdom to go to after we die, but it's a really stupid idea when you think about it, isn't it? I don't believe in heaven, mermaids, aliens or any fictional crap. I do, however, have a deep fascination for crop circles. They just seem to complex for normal people to have made. They are mysterious and they make me wonder. It's the same sort of wonder I feel after watching a good magician pull off a good trick; they suspend my belief for a moment, but I know it's a trick. We humans are good at tricking each other, and the tricksters are competitive with it. We can build pyramids and do incredible things... we can do crop circles.

I found the following explanation for Crop Circles and it sits well with me. I can now go back to believing in the believable.





From Scientific Viewpoints:


"It is the scientific viewpoint of the Circles Effect Research Organisation (CERES) that crop circles which are more complicated than simple round ones are either hoaxes (deliberate pranks) or 'experimental hoax-like creations' for whatever purpose (e.g. advertising, film-making). The teams of circlemakers who produce the complex designs become ever more experienced at executing arrays of circles which are sometimes planned at length over winter. On some occasions farmers have colluded with the circlemakers to facilitate their efforts. Reported cases of complex crop circles as having appeared 'in a matter of minutes' are spurious --- and are the result of the field having been inadequately observed previously."

James Dobson’s idiocy shown up on The Daily Show

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on June 28, 2008
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Found via http://friendlyatheist.com/ ... where else?

Christians Fundamentalists Creationists Bush - Bill Hicks (on Youtube)

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on June 24, 2008
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Fundamentalist Christianity, fascinating. These people actually believe the world is twelve thousand years old. Well how fucking scientific. Didn't know you went to so much trouble.You believe the world is 12000 years old?Muh-uh.You think it would be mentioned in the fucking bible.The trail was blocked was a huge brontosaurus. What a big fucking lizard, Lord.But Jesus was unafraid. And removed the splinter from his paw. And Jesus sent him to Scotland. Americans brought their fat fucking dollars.

But get this. Dinosaur fossils. How does this fit into your view of life. Dinosaur fossils? God put those here to test our faith! Does that trouble anyone here?Some prankster god, running around.We will see who believes in me now. Ho ho ho. You die and saint peter, flying lizards? God was fucking with you!

It seemed so plausible!!....Ever notice how people who believe in Creationism seem really unevolved? I believe god created me in one day.Well... definitely looks like he rushed it....

Jesus escapes boat crash

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on June 18, 2008
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Jim Gaffigan on Youtube

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on June 17, 2008
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Jim Gaffigan vs. Offended Christian
Jim Gaffigan on christmas and Easter
Jim Gaffigan - Religion
Jim Gaffigan - Bacon (the bacon routine is 'must see')

Bill Maher is sacraligiously RELIGULOUS

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on June 9, 2008
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"You start disputin' my god and you got a problem"

"Isn't that something? kotomateopia halasukodiomadada..."

"I'm gonna go up in the rapture, and I'm gonna come back on a white horse"

COMING SOON - Religulous

October 3rd, but until then we'll have to chuckle over the following preview:

"Does that make me crazy..."

My past was no present

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on June 5, 2008
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So it’s our 19th wedding anniversary this week, and I let this slip quietly to a workmate in the staffroom, knowing for some reason it was a mistake to do so, but not sure why. All ears seem to prick up.

“19 years? And how old are you now, 36? How old were you when you were married, 14?” (we teachers ain’t too hot at subtraction sometimes). “Why on earth would you get married at 17?”, “Was it a shotgun wedding?“

Somewhat reluctant, yet polite and forthcoming, I admitted something along the lines of, ‘No, my then girlfriend and I fornicated and were therefore convinced that our ‘sin’ needed to be atoned, via marriage, at the request of the frakked up church we were in’.
"Oh wow, you were in a cult?!"

’No, no, cult is a very strong word… we weren’t quite that different from other churches… we did have our own language though.’ The response to this - riotous laughter. I may as well have been Tom Cruise explaining how Scientology was founded by an alien forefather named Xenu.

We had our own language… sigh. And it took me 17 years to realise how remarkably messed up and ridiculous that is. Star Trekkian nerds who spoke in our own form of Klingon. To be honest, the act of glossallia (speaking in tongues) isn’t unusual in pentecostal christian circles, but our particular life sucking church, the Revival Fellowship (and Centres ‘International’) played on this ability to verbalise double dutch gibberish.

I’ve cut and pasted that 17 years from my life and am trying to delete it from my clipboard. As a result, I sometimes feel I started my actual 18 year of life at the age of 32, but then I may have actually never matured past teenagehood if my Batman obsession since then is anything to go by. I was young and impressionable and I thought I knew all the secrets to the universe and am too embarrassed to list our creed of beliefs.

Happily agnostic now and still interested in religion, but not as a lifestyle anymore, I enjoy studying a myriad of beliefs and am interested in exploring why people believe in the various superstitions and religions they fall into. From astrology to UFOlogy to organised religion, we seem to certaiinly want to believe things we cannot see or prove. I understand and remember this sort of ‘faith’ but won’t be falling for anymore bullcrap myself (respectfully appreciating that everyone is entitled to pursue what they consider to be their ‘truth’ - more power to ya).

Someone told me today I was stupid to be caught up in that cult, and maybe I was. Thousands, millions, continue to delude themselves into thinking they are privy to a higher truth, and that the world needs saving. If I was stupid, I grew out of it.

This year I turn 22 (that’s 37 in your ‘earth’ years).

Sexpelled - No intercourse allowed

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on June 1, 2008
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What were they thinking!?

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on May 23, 2008
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God is Retiring!

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on May 17, 2008
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What Would Jesus Do? (Sexy, funny and offensive - the perfect Youtube)

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on May 12, 2008
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Youtube blurb: A music video to watch while you skip church this Sunday. Written and performed by Julie Wittner (co-creator of "2 Hot Girls in the Shower") and Ryan Smith (a staff writer for "Mad TV"), and directed by Kim Evey (creator of "Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show"). This song started out as a live sketch at the ACME Comedy Theatre in L.A. If you like sharp, Daily Show type political satire, you'll enjoy this country-western music parody!

Everyone loves Iron Man apart from these two Christian idiots

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on May 7, 2008
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Obviously, not all Christians are dickheads, and I know any reasonable religious person loves a good comic book movie. I've got to wait ages for this to come to my backwater cinema, and I already know too much about it. I'm trying to lower my expectations as much as possible so that it will not fail the hype in its wake.

That leads me to reading negative reviews... for fun... check out the following review I found from a Christian movie review site. And if you think that was funny, you should read the reviews on there of Tom Green's 'Freddy Got Fingered'! I couldn't find a review for Debbie Does Dallas anywhere...

The 'Idiot Christian' Iron Man Review:

"My husband and I went to see Iron Man. We left after about 15 to 20 minutes into the film after having heard the Lord's name used as a swear word and having viewed exceptional levels of provocative 'trashy' behavior being modeled at a level such that no matter the potentially redemptive aspects to later be developed in the storyline they could not be sufficient to redeem these opening sequences. Therefore we walked out. (We are pleased to say that the theater manager kindly honored our request to be refunded when we explained our concerns.) Christian viewers, will have to endure sexual fornication, prisoner torture, glorified greed/fame, and revenge (packaged as good vs. evil). "

Oh, and here's the Freddy Got Fingered Review... ya gotta read this (note the fuck word count):

"There was nothing good about this movie and it is perhaps the worst ever made. The whole film is sexually twisted. There is bestial masturbation, support of sexual child abuse, the sexual content was innumerable. This film was also sexually violent. The main character slices up a moose and puts it on his head and then is hit by a semi. He licks a friend's open wound, winks at suicide, about 70 f-words, lots of drinking and smoking, but the worse is yet to come. The main character bites a bloody baby's umbilical cord and then swings the baby around by it splashing blood on everyone in the room. I don’t know how this film got an R rating! This so-called “film”--a man masturbates a live horse AND an elephant, the lead character in the movie has a paralyzed girlfriend that gets off on getting caned in her legs, there are many references to oral sex, and a very graphic scene in which the lead character's father begs for his son to sodomize him (this scene contains nudity--the father's bare behind). It also contains about 57 F-words"

Offensive Youtubes - Funny, but not Christian friendly

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on May 5, 2008
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I've been cleaning my blog out after noticing how many Youtube links were dead. There were heaps! It's safe to go looking through them now, as I've fixed most of them. It's gonna take a while to get to all of them, and then I'm gonna be stressing out rechecking them again in the future as videos get deleted or moved. It's a tough job, eh?
The following clips are funny, but offensive to any of my Christian friends, so be warned:
If anybody else goes trawling through the following categories of videos I've embedded here and find dead links, give me a yell.

YouTube - Donnie Davies - The Bible Says “God hates fags” (Christian music parody)

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on May 4, 2008
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http://view.break.com/212902 - Watch more free videos

Links to some very funny Ex-Christian Comic Strips, Parody and Satire

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on May 4, 2008
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(Comic strip & more) Russell's Teapot
(Comic strip) After? Conversations with God
(comic strip) Atheist Eve
(Comic strip) By the Book Comics
(Comic strip) Jesus and Mo
(Comic Strip) Which Circle?
(Comic) Jack T Chick dissections
(comics and more) Freethunk thought: Games, pics, vids
Can you find Jesus? (Where's Wally homage)
Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
Church sign generator
Churched ad hoc: a divine comedy (photo sets)
Comedy Jesus
Cult Construction Kit
Fundingo - Fundy Bingo
Giant Squid own the earth
God is for suckers
God the comic
How to be a Christian Apologist
Infidel Guy
Jesus vs. Jeezus
Jesus' found on dog's bottom
Lark News: Christian News
Links to more atheism humour
LOL Jesus: Dedicated to damnation
Lost Laughs - Ancient humour
Messed-Up Bible Stories: Adam and Eve
Ship of fools: The magazine of Christian unrest
The Archie gang, with special guest star, Test-tube Jesus
The Church of the subgenious
The designer speaks
The English Atheist
The God Simulator
The Jesus Christ Arcade - Games
The Lego Brick Testament
The official God FAQ
The Perry Bible Fellowship
The Three Asses
What lies between heaven and hell? (apart from 'and')
What would Jesus Click (image gallery)
Wittenburg Door: Religious satire magazine

Motivational Boobs, Babes and Backsides

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on May 3, 2008
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Billy Connolly on Christians and Christian Rock

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on April 30, 2008
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10 Best reasons Gay Marriage is wrong:

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on April 29, 2008
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1. Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning.

2. Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.

3. Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and can sign a marriage contract.

4. Straight marriage has been around a long time and hasn't changed at all; women are still property, blacks still can't marry whites, and divorce is still illegal.

5. Straight marriage will be less meaningful if gay marriage were allowed; the sanctity of Britany Spears' 55-hour just-for-fun marriage would be destroyed.

6. Straight marriages are valid because they produce children. Gay couples, infertile couples, and old people shouldn't be allowed to marry because our orphanages aren't full yet, and the world needs more children.

7. Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.

8. Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That's why we have only one religion in America.

9. Children can never succeed without a male and a female role model at home. That's why we as a society expressly forbid single parents to raise children.

10. Gay marriage will change the foundation of society; we could never adapt to new social norms. Just like we haven't adapted to cars, the service-sector economy, or longer life spans.


Hannah Montana is doing it for Jesus

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on April 29, 2008
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Everything this 15 year old chick does, she does for Jesus, so says she a couple of months ago. And the "I've just been fucked" look is front page fodder for Vanity Fair? Of course, she's just a kid with little capacity for thought, and the blame rests in her idiot father who seems interested in selling her out to the white trash celebrity crowd rather than having her give her achey breaky heart to Jesus.

I think it's pretty bloody stupid of her and embarrassing to Disney Christians for her to make the following statements and then go topless (implied) for a glossy mag. Do we need more Lohans?

"Yes! We love Jesus!" says Cyrus, 15, as she nods her head in agreement. "Happy Easter, by the way. He died for our sins. That's how awesome he is.

"Jesus rocks! That's why we do what we do," the Hannah Montana star adds. "She (Mandy) dances for Jesus. I sing, dance and act for Jesus! ... Now that I think about it, I do everything for Jesus. We make the YouTube videos for Jesus. We’re all about it." Christian Today

Touched by an Atheist

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on April 25, 2008
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Found at Ex-Christian.net - Not guy bustingly funny, but it's aint-christian humour, which we like at this blog:

In this short video, the American sketch comedy television program, MADtv, parodies the American television series, Touched by and Angel. George Carlin even takes the Pope to heaven.

Tip the pizza guy

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on April 19, 2008
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While scraping for money, working all sorts of odd jobs, from boxing up fish to department store Santa, the worst of them all was pizza delivery. I worked for Pizza Hut and, man, did that company suck. I don't know how they get away with paying their drivers so little. At least the drivers were allowed to eat undelivered pizza, but even this was ceased by head management.

Anyway, tip the drivers. Give them a tip. If you don't tip pizza delivery drivers, there's a special level of hell in store for you after you die that includes canned meat and post 2003 britney Spears video clips.

The following story is from TIP THE PIZZA GUY (check it out - some bloody funny stories) and isn't this one just typical of the 'me me' mindset of big Christian churches:

One time I had to deliver to a huge megachurch. They ordered over $200 in food and I had my car packed so full I couldn't see out the back window or the passenger side. This particularly made me nervous because I was driving on icy roads.I arrived safely at the church and ran inside to find who was in charge of taking the food. The woman asked me to drive around to the back of the church instead. So I did, and the curb there was quite a ways away from the door. I carried the food in -- it took around 10 trips or so -- and made each trip all the way to the door, through the main level of the church, down to the basement, and then across the basement.

The woman made a point to tell me how great the store handled the order. Then when she was filling out the credit card, on the portion where you can add in a tip, she wrote in a big fat zero. And as she did this, she asked me to donate money to their church! I politely said something or other about not having extra cash to do this and then she proceeded to tell me I should come back to their Christmas program in a few days and pay 6 bucks to see it.

This church was a good distance from our store, and in the amount of time it took me to load up my car, drive there, carry in that much food and drive back, I missed most of the dinner rush (and therefore missed other chances to make tips.) I get paid less than minimum wage and lost out on gas money.

Expelled - April’s Fools

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on March 31, 2008
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April's Fools and the Noah's Ark Hoax

Perhaps the greatest danger posed by the creationists results from their almost universal lack of a sense of humor and their incredible credulity. They never laugh when they read each other's books, and they easily can be made to believe almost anything. A society where everyone is gullible will not survive for long, and a world without humor is indistinguishable from hell. I fear that creationist dominance of the schools is leading to a generation of Americans who have no training in critical thinking and will believe anything -- a generation which has never been allowed to laugh at preposterosity.

Read the full story about the HOAX expedition for Noah's Ark HERE

Legion of Geeks discuss God

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on March 30, 2008
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Dennis Quaid has joined the cast of LEGION. Tyrese Gibson, Charles S. Dutton, Lucas Black, and Paul Bettany will also star in this tired old storyline where Mankind's only hope rests with a group of strangers who must deliver a baby they realize is Christ in his second coming. This is after God loses faith in humanity, not learning his lesson after drowning everyone in the Noah incident, and then again with Evan Almighty.

Demi Moore did this crap... Arnie did this crap... Keanu Reeves... Walken etc. The sometimes self-titled geeky talkbackers at Aintitcool had this to say - (I love religious commentry with pop-cultural referencing):

* If God existed, how would an angel and a bunch of humans be any match for him? He's GOD! And, don't you think God be aware that Jesus was coming back, since God has to magically fuck a virgin to produce a messiah? Granted, this isn't any more unbelievable than the shit that's in the bible, but come on - he's GOD! They can't win this one.

* Jesus as a baby in the Second Coming? This is silly. You might as well portray God as a man in a blue and red tight with cape.

* Oh, God loses faith in humanity, huh? Since when is God a temporal creature? He's omnipresent, and that includes the temporal sphere. He can't just decide on March 10th to lose faith in humanity, if he loses faith, he would lose it at all points in time past and future -- and the effect would be the same as if he never had faith in the first place. And if you don't think this means we can tie in TimeCop somehow, well, you're just not paying attention.

* The only thing that will save this film is Kirk Cameron. This movie needs a healthy dose of crazy dead eye. I always thought that Cameron was just a harmless psychopath, but it turns out he accused the writers on Growing Pains, the most morality laden TV show, of being child pornographers for breaching the subject of teen sex. What a douche.

* Yeah well people don't really think which is why they follow religions and believe in stupid shit like the devil even though god is all powerful, the devil will try to overtake god, how? God is God, but it's in the bible and people believe it. Religious people lack imagination. Fuck it. When Geoff Johns can make a badass apocalypse sound cooler in 2 pages than the revelations you know the religion is shit.

* Whenever I hear crazy christians talk about the revelations and all that will happen I just tell them that I doubt if there is someone with omnipotent power he would make such a boring uninspired Apocalypse. End of Earth. boring. I want to see the end of the Multiverse at the hands of the Anti Monitor. Instead of earth threatened by beasts, have reality threatened by a psychotic superboy.

* I once asked an Evangelical why God would send an upstanding an moral unbeliever to Hell just because that unbeliever didn't believe in him. I mean, isn't that a little petty for the creator of the Universe? Guess what the answer was? It is because God, even though he may love the unbeliever, cannot stand to be in the presence of someone who doesn't believe in him. But this is an omnipotent creature, right? Yet somehow belief is his kryptonite? God's powers are less consistent than Superman's.

* Unfortunately they won't give this a downer ending. We need a movie where there's no glimmer of hope at the end. Humanity ends. Period. No miracle cures, no virgin births, no iMac uploaded computer viruses, no shuttle pilots flying into cracks with warheads, no Polish astronauts planning a nighttime landing on the sun with nukes, no drilling to the earth's core in a ship made of an indestructibe metal called CanYouBelieveThisBullshitium. None of it. Just humanity wiped clean from the face of the earth by the invisible Jewish carpenter in the sky.

* BTW - for those few who might not know - the "Legion" bit refers to Jesus finds a possessed guy and asks the demon what its name was. Its response was the rather cryptic "My name is Legion, for we are many" most likely referring to the Roman term for a Division of troops. Jesus then gets rather annoyed with this and sends the Demon into a herd of pigs who run off a cliff. Lovely stuff

Superhero Movie Tom Cruise Scientology parody

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on March 25, 2008
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Goddam! I love a good parody of freaky fucknut Tommy Cruise and his completely mental Scientology rant. There have been some good parodies over the year and all the best have been posted here, but this one nails it down like a crucifixion of a carpenter. I'm gonna love Superhero Movie...

Derren Brown - NLP Persuasion skills

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on March 21, 2008
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Search for Derren Brown on Youtube and will see how a well-practiced expert can persuade people to change behaviour. This is done by suggestion, distraction and subliminal language.

In the church that got me, we started in a room with the elders and through a process of persuasive techique we believed that we received the "holy spirit" after a fervent and 'powerul' session. Many of us left that room after being convinced that the ecstatic speech, we had allowed our mouths to make, was actually the evidence that a god had now possessed our souls and would help us through life.

Through regular attendence we were continually persuaded to hang onto the faith and encouraged to maintain the tongue speaking nonsense as our link to the God above through the God filled within via the god that hung around between us. Keeping a one way conversation with three gods can be tricky, especially when the language used was gobbledegood in the first place. Gotta hand it to them tongue-speaking Christians... they're dumbfucks.

Watch the video... this one features Simon Pegg. Brilliant. And I love it that the magician actually tells us how he did it at the end rather than winking and wanking at us, like the idiotic spoon benders do.

Atheist responses to a Christianist

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on March 15, 2008
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Sometimes they allow a Christian post into Ex-Christian.net to feed the lions... I summarised some responses:
I want you to know that just because you dont believe in God, doesnt mean he's not there. God loves you. Romans 5:8 says God demonstrates His love for us in this: while we were still sinners Christ died for us. God has a love and a grace that is beyond human understanding. I am a christian obviously and I believe that Jesus Christ will be coming again and that He will take His people, the believers, with Him. I pray that you and the people who dont believe in Christ will turn before that day. If you want to ask me some questions or anything email me back. brandon.buck41@yahoo.com

Brandon, learn the concept and definition of Stockholm Syndrome. - HappyChef

Well let's see. It's been 2000 years and he hasn't returned, so I guess he's not in any hurry to find his way back to this tiny earth from whatever galaxy he went home to - Atheisttoothfairy

What I want to know, is that if your "god" has a love and grace incomprehensible to man, then how can can one accept it? how would you know if you have it if you can't comprehend it? Nice try. S R Webb

Using the bible to prove your god is like using the works of L. Frank Baum to prove Munchkins. Myfel1960

Look, all of us here have heard it, done it, and most importantly, lived it. So away with you and your peter pan christian advice - Psychman

I fail to understand how drowning planets, killing one's own son and ultimately destroying the planet constitutes "love". Must've missed the memo on that one - Astreja

Hey brandon, why don't you just fuck off? We're more interested in sinning and pissing god and jesus off over here. Perhaps try www.churchofsatan.com, they still believe in supernatural spookies over there.... - sir fer

And just because you believe in god, that doesn't mean he is there. And let me tell you what is beyond understanding. It is the pleasure one experiences when one grows up and gets off his knees and learns to act like a man. You sound like a child. "I am a christian". That sounds like "I got an A on my spelling test" or "I got a bike for my birthday". You are a christian; well big fucking deal. Let us know when you learn to go potty - ryan

Since abandoning my god belief, I am a lot more at peace with myself and reality. In this life of reality you learn to accept that we can roll with the punches, and find the answers to our own problems. Find the strength to deal with losses. Find the time to laugh and enjoy life, without the guilt complex that x-tianity ingrains in us. So, read your bible to somebody else, and enjoy your fantasy world. I would never go back! - eejay

Oh man, you're funny. You'll pray for me? I'll think for you - thetraveler928

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE before it's TOO LATE!! The Flying Spaghetti Monsters hell is full of strippers with venereal diseases, and even worse, the beer there is STALE!! Please save yourselves from this horrible eternity, and give your life up to the only one true god, The Flying Spaghetti Monster. swifty32661

Currently by you accepting and boasting a title of Christian, you are nothing more than a Christian zealot self-righteous bigot... Self-aggrandizing titles have no basis in reality, they are decoys invented to spew hatred and separation against other human beings... No part of the Bible was written by a god or Jesus, only by men that had either a revelation or a vision or by dreams or hallucinations of grandeur by the influence of hallucingenic drugs. Steven Bently

Go back to your little prayer circle, sing KUM BY YA a few times and just tithe yourself into oblivion. As a wise contributor to this site once said before - "You are not the droids we are looking for". Wayne

The farting Mrs Preacher

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on March 10, 2008
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You appear to be typing a holy book. What would you like to do?

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on March 10, 2008
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The Joke: Knock knock. (Who's there?) Jesus. (Jesus who?) Looks like you're going to Hell!

The Joke: How many charismatics does it take to change a light bulb? One to change the light bulb and one to cast out the spirit of darkness.

The Joke: Q: How many fundamentalists does it take to change a light bulb? A: ... change???

The Joke: What is the difference between a Baptist and a terrorist? You can negotiate with a terrorist!

The Joke: How do we know that Moses was made out of rubber? He tied his ass to a tree and walked 5 miles.

Lying over adultery is legal in Italy

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on March 9, 2008
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Italy's highest appeal court has ruled that married Italian women who commit adultery are entitled to lie about it to protect their honour.

The court gave its landmark ruling after hearing the case of a 48-year-old woman, convicted of giving false testimony to police by denying she had lent her mobile phone to her lover.
The appeal court did not agree that she had broken the law.

It said bending the truth was justified to conceal extra-marital relationships. In a predominantly Catholic country you might expect the courts to take a dim view of lying and adultery.
But not in this case.

The woman who brought the appeal was from Porto Ercole on the Tuscany coast, and named only as Carla. She had lent her telephone to her secret lover, Giovanni, who then used it to call Carla's estranged husband, Vincenzo, and insult him.

Giovanni, the lover, was convicted of abusive behaviour in a local court, and Carla convicted as an accessory.

Controversial judgements

But the Court of Cassation found that having a lover was a circumstance that damaged the honour of the person among family and friends. Lying about it, therefore, was permitted, even in a judicial investigation.

It is not yet clear whether the ruling might also apply to men who have secret mistresses.
The Court of Cassation, which is largely staffed by elderly male appeal judges, has in the past issued a number of controversial judgements.

It once gave a ruling, later rescinded after protests from women's groups, that a woman could not be raped by definition if she was wearing tight jeans, since the jeans could only be removed with her consent.
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