Quote of the day

[Bandito]

In order to do the math correctly, I just substitute the word god for the word money. Then, all the religious books sort of make sense.

-- Deprogramed - Richard Dawkins Forum --

[Dust Bunnies]

The clergy do not lie for money. They lie for power. To be able to deceive the masses so easily means all the power you can seize. But religions like Christianity is going the way of Paganism (falling).

A religion with a hierarchy is not good and just another way of exploitation.

[Il Medico]

Captain Jack's Religious Nutbag Quote of the Day:

"Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It's no different. It is the same thing. It is happening all over again. It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-based media and the homosexuals who want to destroy the Christians. Wholesale abuse and discrimination and the worst bigotry directed toward any group in America today. More terrible than anything suffered by any minority in history." –Pat Robertson

[Pogue]

The Pope? How many divisions has he got? - Stalin

[Il Medico]

The Pope? How many divisions has he got? - Stalin
The Pope has some guys with long sticks a puffy pants! They're Swiss, I don't think Stalin should worry.:laugh:

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

Don't be fooled by their floofy, funky garb - I hear the Swiss Guards are actually pretty hardcore, or at least used to be.

Of course that doesn't change the fact that they'd be swamped by any army worthy of the name - there's only a reinforced company of them, after all.

[Il Medico]

Don't be fooled by their floofy, funky garb - I hear the Swiss Guards are actually pretty hardcore, or at least used to be.

Of course that doesn't change the fact that they'd be swamped by any army worthy of the name - there's only a reinforced company of them, after all.
True....wait what does this remind me of?
http://www.deskpicture.com/DPs/Military/SwissGuard.jpg
Oh! Yeah this:
http://www.geektyrant.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/300-movie03.jpg
Well.... we know Iran can't conquer the Vatican! :D:laugh::lol:

[Decolonize The Left]

The clergy do not lie for money. They lie for power. To be able to deceive the masses so easily means all the power you can seize. But religions like Christianity is going the way of Paganism (falling).

A religion with a hierarchy is not good and just another way of exploitation.

You forget that within a capitalist economic system, money is often equivalent to power - at least, it buys power. The clergy lie for many reasons, money is most certainly one of them. They also have to lie because they are preserving and enacting an out-dated and archaic system of belief which is confronted and contradicted in all areas of existence.

When you have no evidence for your dogmatism, you must lie.

- August

[Dust Bunnies]

You forget that within a capitalist economic system, money is often equivalent to power - at least, it buys power. The clergy lie for many reasons, money is most certainly one of them. They also have to lie because they are preserving and enacting an out-dated and archaic system of belief which is confronted and contradicted in all areas of existence.

When you have no evidence for your dogmatism, you must lie.

- August

Well it depends which religion you're talking about. Catholic priests are not super rich or anything. But evangelical preachers like Joel Olsteen are.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

True....wait what does this remind me of?
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Oh! Yeah this:
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Well.... we know Iran can't conquer the Vatican! :D:laugh::lol:

Halberdiers remind you of a phalanx? Only in the sense that riflemen remind one of musketeers.

[Il Medico]

Halberdiers remind you of a phalanx? Only in the sense that riflemen remind one of musketeers.
Helberdiers and Swiss pikemen were famous for using a phalanx in battle. (Phalanx is just a tactic)

[Il Medico]

Captain Jack's Religious Nutbag Quote of the Day:
"The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians." –Pat Robertson

[danyboy27]

my turn!


I'm fighting so I can die a martyr and go to heaven to meet God. Our fight now is against the Americans.
Osama bin Laden (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/o/osamabinla406577.html)

[ComradeOm]

Helberdiers and Swiss pikemen were famous for using a phalanx in battle. (Phalanx is just a tactic)Only semantically; that is in the sense that we refer to any close order formation. In military terms there are significant differences between the ancient phalanx and the medieval/modern pike square. There's a passing resemblance with the spears/pikes but that's be all. Most notably the later European pike formations were considered part of a combined arms force (with cavalry and muskets) rather than simply trying to slowly push the opposition over


Of course that doesn't change the fact that they'd be swamped by any army worthy of the name - there's only a reinforced company of them, after allWell you hardly need an army to defend an enclave in the centre of Rome. The Vatican's defences have scaled with the challenges facing it. The old Papal States used to have a decent sized military (albeit entirely ineffective) and a decent chunk of this, such as the Palatine Guard, survived until just a few decades ago

Edit: As to actual quotes, here's a suitably florid passage:

O God, Lord God of thy priests, rise up now and show thyself God.
They cry out, thine elect, thine aspirants to heavenward, whose faith is as flame;
O thou the Lord God of our tyrants, they call thee, their God, by thy name.
By thy name that in hell-fire was written, and burned at the point of thy sword,
Thou art smitten, thou God, thou art smitten; thy death is upon thee, O Lord.

-Algernon Swinburne (Hymn of Man)

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

Well you hardly need an army to defend an enclave in the centre of Rome. The Vatican's defences have scaled with the challenges facing it.

Does that include a division of artillery? :ninja:

[Trystan]

The clergy do not lie for money. They lie for power.


You also forgot to mention all those little boys . . .

[ComradeOm]

Does that include a division of artillery? :ninja:Don't think they have any artillery left but the Zouaves definitely had some prior to their disbandment in 1870

[Jazzratt]

This was never much more than chit chat fodder.

[Il Medico]

Captain Jack's Religious Nutbag Quote of the Day:
"I believe that the Hurricane Katrina was, in fact, the judgment of God against the city of New Orleans...I believe that New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to God, and they are -- were recipients of the judgment of God for that...There was to be a homosexual parade there on the Monday that the Katrina came. And the promise of that parade was that it was going to reach a level of sexuality never demonstrated before in any of the other Gay Pride parades.... The Bible teaches that when you violate the law of God, that God brings punishment sometimes before the day of judgment."
-Pastor John Hagee

[Dust Bunnies]

blah blah blah blah

Counter-revolutionaries? In my chit-chat?

[Il Medico]

Captain Jack's Religious Nutbag Quote of the Day:
Gay sex is a veritable breeding ground for disease. - Rod Parsley
But Since that one is short....
Captain Jack's Religious Nutbag Quote of the Day EXTRA!:
"The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way -- all of them who have tried to secularize America -- I point the finger in their face and say 'you helped this happen.'" - Jerry Falwell on the 9/11 attacks

[Angry Young Man]

True....wait what does this remind me of?
http://www.deskpicture.com/DPs/Military/SwissGuard.jpg


Old fashioned boiled sweets, like Everton mints or something of the sort. You know the kind that you never see anywhere in a shop or owt but always round your grandma's? Those.

Plus they're mercenaries. I know this from Hamlet.

[Angry Young Man]

Captain Jack's Religious Nutbag Quote of the Day:
"The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians." –Pat Robertson

This is my kind of feminism: socialism's an obvious support, but leaving their husbands is good because it leaves all the men to me; and killing their children is good because I fucking hate kids. I don't know why he's being all ranty when there's nowt wrong with his conception of feminism

[Bilan]

Pat Robertson: can he really be that stupid?
I do wonder.

[Rusty Shackleford]

Pat Robertson: can he really be that stupid?
I do wonder.


he could be smart enough to say such ridiculous shit to get the dumbest of people to believe him, and have some radical christofascists follow him.

[Bandito]

We 'feel free' because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.


Slavoj Žižek

[Angry Young Man]

he could be smart enough to say such ridiculous shit to get the dumbest of people to believe him, and have some radical christofascists follow him.

Or perhaps he's a christofascist who, having totally absorbed all the right-wing crap, throws it around like a muck spreader full of diseased poo from which not a single carrot will grow. Like the middle management of christofascism.

[Il Medico]

Or perhaps he's a christofascist who, having totally absorbed all the right-wing crap, throws it around like a muck spreader full of diseased poo from which not a single carrot will grow. Like the middle management of christofascism.
Who is the CEO? Wait! Don't tell me...This guy:
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/captioncall/0505derby-hat200.jpg
Anywho, Quote of the day, this time from who I guessed is the CEO of Christofascist Inc. :
Captain Jack's Conservative Nutbag Quote of the Day:
"He is exaggerating the effects of the disease. He's moving all around and shaking and it's purely an act. ... This is really shameless of Michael J. Fox. Either he didn't take his medication or he's acting." - Rush Limbaugh

[Angry Young Man]

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/captioncall/0505derby-hat200.jpg

A pearly queen is the CEO of Christofascist inc.

Anyway, don't underestimate the ability of conservatives to swallow their own poo

[Colonello Buendia]

on orgasm a day keeps capitalism away -davis fleetwood

[An archist]

A molotov a day keeps the cops away.

[Bilan]

One of the requisites of sanity is to disagree with the majority of the British public. - Oscar Wilde

[Bandito]

Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who teaches my hands to wage war, and my fingers to do battle.

The Bible, Psalms 144:1

[Il Medico]

Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who teaches my hands to wage war, and my fingers to do battle.

The Bible, Psalms 144:1
OF COURSE! DUH! Why wouldn't a peaceful loving God help me kill people?

Anywho:
Captain Jack's Conservative Nutbag Quote of the Day:
"I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could, if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down." --Bill Bennett