Well gluttony IS a sin.
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Ah yes, my old former hometown in the news again for truly regrettable reasons.
Behold, a St. Louis institution, on Chouteau Avenue:
Still quite the thing, apparentlyāeven these days.
Perhaps that church dude is simply upset that St. Louisans have upgraded over the years from the local swill of Anheuser-Busch products (yeccchhh!) and brain sandwiches. I sense that eating a lot of bovine brains and other animalsā brains in sandwiches canāt possibly be good for you cumulatively, what with bovine spongiform encephalopathy and all. Meat inspectors probably donāt do that much of a fine-toothed-comb kinda job most of the time anyway, especially if the cow in question was incubating but pre-symptomatic.
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I remember a parent giving a presentation at a scout meeting where she stated, āYou canāt be an atheist and a Boy Scout.ā
āOh, really?ā I silently thought to myself, making eye contact with the speaker during her point.
(also I was frequently the person who would break up fights when one denomination member began bulling a different denomination member)
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He makāa da Saints cry!
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screed
The mere fact that all these supposedly all-powerful gods require so much constant attention, adoration, and abject worship kind of seems like a dead giveaway thereās a lot of mortals pulling the marionette strings here. But we mortal believers just donāt notice it because God is so much like us. If God actually acted like an all-powerful, all-knowing, all-loving God one suspects his behavior would be vastly different.
For one thing, heād stop genociding us, in whole or in part; not confer favored status to one tribe over another; stop requiring this āsin,ā which only appeared on the radar as something to be concerned about with Jesusā advent, would not be a paradise show-stopper; generally, not demand the adulation/attention/delicacy that seems more appropriate to a temperamental adolescent.
/screed
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Wellā¦ Yeah.
Thatās the screed I typically trot out when people kill in the name of their god. If itās such a powerful god, shouldnāt it be supremely insulted by humans even defending it so vehemently? Itās as if they donāt believe that god exists and canāt take care of its own business.
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a 7-up Donut? I may need to check out your State Fair.
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The only hope is education, education, education.
If we can just get the entire adult population of the Earth to a PhD level, weād get the atheism percentage up to 70%.
If we could then just get everyone who had a PhD to get another PhD in theoretical physics, we could boost that figure to 90%+.
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Eagle Scout here ā¦ Iām done having kids and had no sons. I would have had a similar dilemma. Where I was, it was donāt ask donāt tell. If youāre an atheist just keep your mouth shut about it. Kinda at odds with the honesty aspect of scout hood. Be honest, just not about this.
Kicking the girl scouts out of churches ā¦ well thatās just plain old crazy.
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I remember when I was a kid asking at Sunday school why we just prayed for the poor people instead of helping them like Jesus said to.
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Ermā¦
Jack Klobnak writes in: āI took this pix in the 1970ās. It is on Choteau
Ave. in St. Louis, which was famous in the early 20th Century for Brain
Sandwiches (use a lot of mustard). It was not uncommon for dolts to be
told to take a quarter down to Choteau to get some brains. Sadly, the
building is no longer standing.ā
The location appears to have since been completely redeveloped as a hospital.
Good olā St. Louis, the city that turned into an armpit because most the white people abandoned it when black people got rights.
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Bishop Len Brennan. Excellent choice!
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Great news: means more for me!!!
/Iāll get my hat
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You know the law, āA scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent.ā
Also the oathā¦ I guess I donāt have any honor.
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Thereās a comedian who remarked on the 10 commandments ā god spent the first 4 about himself. Talk about a complex.
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Yes ā¦ I know it all by memory, like every eagle scout, even though I havenāt spoken the words in close to 30 years. I think you can be reverent without a belief in god ā Iāll call that semantics. The oath doesnāt hold back though. Regardless, I was a scout and proud of it ā¦ just didnāt drink the kool-aid on the god part.
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Yes, Mr. Archbishop. Iām sure youāre absolutely right.
Please take a seat over there in the dustbin of history. Right next to the inquisitors, those who opposed equal rights for woman and visible minorities, those who spread your religion by the sword, and of course those who order parents not to go to police when introduced to your churchās international pedophile exchange program. Your take on morality will fit right in!
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[quote=āLDoBe, post:20, topic:74168, full:trueā]Why waste all that time telling the supposed creator of the universe how awesome he is when we could just enjoy that universe instead.
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Although I donāt believe in or worship any gods, if I did, that is how Iād do it.
Want to show your reverence for creation? Go climb a mountain. And take your trash with you when you leave.
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Iām with you there on all counts.
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