Showing posts with label Religion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Religion. Show all posts

Sunday, March 10, 2013

Kal El's Prayer



Hail Superman, wearing tights
Clark Kent be thy name
One nation under Zod

Homer Simpson in Simpsons S24E15 

The problem with this is General Zod is an enemy of Superman so this makes little sense.


Friday, March 01, 2013

Fringe Pope



Found this in a link from AH discussion, Why Papal Conclave is an affront to Catholic theology and a pathetic electoral system, posted by Enigmajones. Pope Michael, who has about "30 "solid" followers" is one of two existing American anti-popes, there were 2 others but they resigned or died.

Thursday, October 04, 2012

"Gosh, We're All Really Impressed Down Here I Can Tell You"



From Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983)

Chaplain: Oh Lord...
Congregation: Oh Lord...

Chaplain: Oooh you are so big...
Congregation: Oooh you are so big...

Chaplain: So absolutely huge.
Congregation: So ab - solutely huge.

Chaplain: Gosh, we're all really impressed down here I can tell you.
Congregation: Gosh, we're all really impressed down here I can tell you.

Chaplain: Forgive Us, O Lord, for this dreadful toadying.
Congregation: And barefaced flattery.

Chaplain: But you are so strong and, well, just so ... super.
Congregation: Fan - tastic.

Congregation: Amen

Chaplain and Congregation: Oh Lord, please don't burn us, Don't grill or toast your flock, Don't put us on the barbecue, Or sim - mer us in stock, Don't braise or bake or boil us, Or stir-fry us in a wok... Oh please don't lightly poach us, Or baste us with hot fat, Don't fricassee or roast us, Or boil us in a vat, And please don't stick thy servants Lord, In a Rotissomat...



Nobody wants to be a "Job".

Thursday, June 21, 2012

Dexter's Sign of the Cross


I am a father, a son, and a serial killer

Dexter,
 giving his own spin on the Trintarian formula.
Then he expounds upon the Manichean heresy.
 Dexter S06E12

Thursday, July 20, 2006

""We're On a Mission From God" - Elwood Blues

From News of the Weird comes this odd story about criminally insane law in Texas.

The Texas insanity-defense law requires that a delusional person acting under "orders" from God be judged not guilty by reason of insanity, but that a delusional person acting under "orders" from Satan be considered sane, according to prominent forensic psychiatrist Park Dietz (according to a June USA Today story). Thus, Dietz believed that Andrea Yates (at press time being retried in Houston) knew that drowning her kids upon command of someone "without moral authority" (such as Satan) was wrong and thus that she did not qualify for insanity-law protection. Dietz later concluded the opposite in another Texas child-killing case because God had supposedly assured that mother that her kids would be better off dead. [USA Today, 6-20-06]


The problem for me is that what if you acting under orders that you and your culture considers a "moral authority" but every one else in the world considers very crazy. Say you are a pious and sincere Aztec. In your backyard you have an altar where you sacrifice your enemies' still beating hearts to Huitzilopochti. Eventually the police authorities might notice your religious practices.

Guilty or Not Guilty?