I have a truly personal and invidious comment to make regarding "Christianity"

[riff]

I have a truly personal and invidious comment to make regarding "Christianity"

This is just me thinking aloud. Flame at will.

The Catholics and the poor black protestant churches do it better than anyone else.

Just an opinion.

 

[Ambrosious]

For those with a broadband connection:


www.newbirth.org

One of the best churches out there.

 

[Mensa]

It's all good.

 

[heterotic]

And the thuggees. Mustn't forget the thuggee denomination...

 

[riff]

It's all good.

brainiac.

Look at the big brain on Mensa! Thanks for the reminder, bro'.

I just like their styles. Hey, I spent my childhood in south Louisiana. Crucify me. LOL

 

[Mensa]

brainiac.

Look at the big brain on Mensa! Thanks for the reminder, bro'.

I just like their styles. Hey, I spent my childhood in south Louisiana. Crucify me. LOL

Relax! You got it right. You just need to expand your horizons.

 

[riff]

I have done the Unitarian Universalist thing once. It wasn't so good an experience for me because I seemed to be meeting all of these people who thought they were atheists or were just acting-out resentments to "this church or that one." Maybe I should go back. Dunno.

I do have an attraction to Buddism. It is undeniable.

 

[heterotic]

I tried a Unitarian Universalist church for a while. I liked it, I only left because I had to move away. They did have an atheist speak one Sunday, but I wouldn't consider myself one for having listened and enjoyed. I partake of quite a bit of Taoism, and I'm trying to learn more about esoteric buddhism.

 

[riff]

I believe in atheists. But we are all "homo religiosus."

Now we are getting deep. The best church is a vagina and titties, sometimes, I think.

A kiss is like communion! Holy Eucharist!

 

[phrodeau]

In Satanic rituals where an altar is used, the altar is usually a naked woman.

 

[riff]

In Satanic rituals where an altar is used, the altar is usually a naked woman.

Hey, have you ever read any Huysmanns? La Bas? (down there) or Against The Grain?

 

[freescorfr]

I believe in atheists. But we are all "homo religiosus."

Now we are getting deep. The best church is a vagina and titties, sometimes, I think.

A kiss is like communion! Holy Eucharist!

And "This is my body", as you go in. Real sharing.

 

[heterotic]

In Satanic rituals where an altar is used, the altar is usually a naked woman.

Is that Alceister Crowley brand, or older/alternate varieties? I've been meaning to read his books thoroughly, but haven't gotten around to it yet.

 

[riff]

And "This is my body", as you go in. Real sharing.

Don't you just love sex? Aren't you just just thrilled by women? I know that I am. To love a woman with mind, body, and spirit, forever. Best damned church there is, I think.

 

[riff]

Is that Alceister Crowley brand, or older/alternate varieties? I've been meaning to read his books thoroughly, but haven't gotten around to it yet.

Oh shit. Now I have to crank up Diary of A Madman (That's an Ozzy oldie, for those who don't know.)

 

[heterotic]

Oh shit. Now I have to crank up Diary of A Madman (That's an Ozzy oldie, for those who don't know.)

The album Mr. Crowley is on? Wish I had that here.

 

[riff]

The album Mr. Crowley is on? Wish I had that here.

Fuck, you are right. That's on Blizzard of Ozz! Right? Must be.

Oh well, looks like I am listening to Diary anyway.

 

[phrodeau]

Hey, have you ever read any Huysmanns? La Bas? (down there) or Against The Grain?

No. What I know of Satanism comes from LaVey, Michelet, and general research in witchcraft of the Salem trials period.

 

[riff]

I have read La Vey. I thought it was bullshit. He got rich.

I was actually very disappointed. I read the Satanic Bible or whatever it was. It just sounded like hedonism with goth thrown in for color, which sounds fun enough, but why go through all the work? Just do it.

That's my opinion.

Check out La Bas if you are curious. It might be hard to find. Huysmanns was a french symbolist/aesthete/decadent.

 

[KillerMuffin]

Crucifixion is land drowning.

 

[riff]

Crucifixion is land drowning.

You are poetic in this thread today.
But then, you are always poetic, KM.

 

[freescorfr]

Crucifixion is land drowning.

Only if you break the legs - that's why they harpooned Him.


This is absolutely true:

on my birthday 27 march 1991, I said to my kid's at dinner, during Holy Week, "I'm just like Jesus - I've never broken a bone in my body"

Two minutes later I'd fallen down the stairs - open fracture of tib and fib, broken ribs and elbow.

 

[heterotic]

Szandor La Vey's Satanism really struck me as humanism with an attitude.


Freescorfr--to paraphrase Douglas Adams, it's coincidences like that which really prove the nonexistence of God. Sheesh.

(The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove I exist," says God, "because proof denies faith, and without faith my religion is nothing." "Aha! Says man: But [coincidence with the stairs] is just too unlikely to happen. It's a dead giveaway!" "Oh, dear, I hadn't thought of that" replies God, and dissappears in a puff of logic)

 

[freescorfr]

Szandor La Vey's Satanism really struck me as humanism with an attitude.


Freescorfr--to paraphrase Douglas Adams, it's coincidences like that which really prove the nonexistence of God. Sheesh.

(The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove I exist," says God, "because proof denies faith, and without faith my religion is nothing." "Aha! Says man: But [coincidence with the stairs] is just too unlikely to happen. It's a dead giveaway!" "Oh, dear, I hadn't thought of that" replies God, and dissappears in a puff of logic)

Douglas Adams has and had all the answers, I agree, heterotic.