Nicker on 14/4/2006 at 17:48
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you go to church and get palm fronds! (to swordfight with at home when your parents were't looking!); giving up something for Lent (every year I tried to make it broccoli, every year that was vetoed by my Dad);
Easter now means CADBURY CREAM EGGS, and that's it. But damn, those things are good.
:D Great images. I was always a bit jealous of my Catholic friends and their incomprehensible but flashy rituals.
BTW - did you hear about the (
http://www.cbc.ca/story/science/national/2006/03/02/cadbury-recall060302.html) recall of Cadbury's Easter Eggs?. Gasp! Only in Canada though, eh. Thankfully the traditional creme eggs were spared. Perhaps there is a God after all.
oudeis on 15/4/2006 at 00:15
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I've heard theories lately that Jesus and Judas were actually best buds, and Jesus basically told Judas to do what he did).
really? say on.
Quote Posted by LesserFollies
These days I'm about as lapsed as a Catholic can be. Easter now means CADBURY CREAM EGGS, and that's it. But damn, those things are good.
nostalgia rant!
tasty, but waaaayyyyy too sweet for me now. l get cottonmouth just thinking about them.
Ultraviolet on 15/4/2006 at 00:47
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really? say on.
If you search Wikipedia for Judas, you can get a fairly comprehensive listing of a lot of the theories and some theological debate about predestination and whether Judas was punished or rewarded after his death.
Convict on 15/4/2006 at 04:58
There are always a lot of people theorising about the Bible. (
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/satan-victim-of-a-devilish-image-problem/2006/04/11/1144521339095.html) Here is a professor telling us that Satan isn't the bad guy he's cracked up to be:
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A FORMER Jesuit turned university professor has set himself an ambitious project: rehabilitating the devil.
Henry Ansgar Kelly says Satan is the most maligned figure in history and has endured 17 centuries of unjustified character assassination.
"For 1700 years Satan has been the enemy of God, whereas in the Bible he works for God, he's his prime minister or attorney-general, in charge of policing the world," Professor Kelly said.
"He is one of God's angels, and his job is to test people."
The 71-year-old University of California professor has played devil's advocate for four decades, and is the author of many books and scholarly articles.
The devil did not have a kingdom, did not rule over hell, and did not try to damn people, Professor Kelly said. These ideas had developed from the second to the fourth centuries AD, and were refined for the next 1000 years. Professor Kelly said it was important to recapture the biblical understanding of Satan to combat the doctrine of original sin, "in which the whole human race is delivered to Satan".
"That's the most immoral doctrine in Christianity, that the whole of the human race is doomed to hell for something they didn't do. Once you get rid of that, Christianity becomes less unreasonable."
Satan's rare appearances in the Old Testament were not by one person, but a number of angels doing God's work, Professor Kelly said. He would like his theories to attract more official hostility, he said, because then they would be better known.
Professor Kelly is officially an exorcist, but he has never tackled anyone with demon possession.
"Demons are like talking germs - parasites looking for a place to stay, like diseases - and are under Satan's control," he said. "I prefer to have a global exorcism [of Satan's reputation]. Then we wouldn't have to worry about these minor manifestations."
Ultraviolet on 15/4/2006 at 05:19
HAY GUYZ LETS CHANGE THESE RANDOM BITS AND PIECES AND THEN MAYBE GET MORE FOLLOWERS CUZ ITS COOL. I WAS THINKING THIS "SATAN IS COOL" IDEA WOULD BE A GREAT WAY TO GET THE DEATH METAL CROWD ON BOARD CONFIRM/DENY?
Mr.Duck on 15/4/2006 at 08:28
\m/
(fetch me an egg, boy).
Convict on 15/4/2006 at 11:08
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HAY GUYZ LETS CHANGE THESE RANDOM BITS AND PIECES AND THEN MAYBE GET MORE FOLLOWERS CUZ ITS COOL. I WAS THINKING THIS "SATAN IS COOL" IDEA WOULD BE A GREAT WAY TO GET THE DEATH METAL CROWD ON BOARD CONFIRM/DENY?
I think that you misunderstand - Prof Kelly used to be a Jesuit. He's one of these random dudes who comes out with wacko ideas ((
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/fallen-angel-not-so-satanic-devils-advocate/2006/04/11/1144521340644.html) he also calls himself a "diabologian" rather than a theologian).
tungsten on 15/4/2006 at 15:32
Quote Posted by LesserFollies
I've heard theories lately that Jesus and Judas were actually best buds, and Jesus basically told Judas to do what he did).
Or maybe it was like MadTV claims:
(
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/108810) (sorry, only the flash-stream, haven't found the wmv or mpeg)
Fig455 on 15/4/2006 at 18:45
:thumb: to LesserFollies and the awesomest post I've read all day.
And Happy Easter!
LesserFollies on 15/4/2006 at 18:52
A recently found gnostic gospel, like the one that told of Jesus kissing Mary Magdalene and the rest of the disciples getting all jealous, ahaha.
(
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/04/0406_060406_judas.html)
For the record, I believe the man existed and had some good ideas, but I doubt his divinity, as I doubt the existence of God. (Sure hope I don't find out I was wrong, in about 50 or 60 years. :sweat:)
