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"quibbler" |
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24 Feb 2004 09:27:33 PM |
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Fat Tuesday, Ca$h Wednesday and Good (Riddance) Friday |
Ah yes, the hilarious xer holidays are upon us again. I love seeing
people wander around with little black smudges on their foreheads. It's
almost as funny as people who drag around a trail of toilet paper stuck
to their shoe or something. Anyway, you know that the churches are
looking to cash in on Ca$h wednesday as all the gullible xers pony up
money for the collection plate.
However, my favorite holiday of the season is Good (Riddance) Friday. I
always thought that we should celebrate the death (and non-resurrection)
of Jesus rather than his birth. The world is definitely a better place
without crazy, worthless, megalomaniacal winos and moochers like Jesus in
it.
Of course Mardi Gras is also pretty cool. It shows how happy people
could be without religion.
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Quibbler (quibbler247atyahoo.com)
"It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the
threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, 'mad cow'
disease, and many others, but I think a case can be
made that faith is one of the world's great evils,
comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to
eradicate." -- Richard Dawkins
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| User: "Roger Andrews" |
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| Title: Re: Fat Tuesday, Ca$h Wednesday and Good (Riddance) Friday |
26 Feb 2004 11:09:51 AM |
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I've been dating a catholic girl since Nov. Last night we were
discussing the whole Lent/Ash Wed/Good Fri/Easter thing. I asked her
why it's called Good Friday when that was the day her god was tortured
and killed, what's so good about that. She admitted she had never
thought of it that way before, then went on to say it was good because
when he died he washed away sin. I responded by saying, "yeah, but it
wasn't a good day for him. How selfish of people to think about
themselves when he was made to suffer."
I think I actually got her to start thinking about it.
Roger
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| User: "johac" |
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| Title: Re: Fat Tuesday, Ca$h Wednesday and Good (Riddance) Friday |
25 Feb 2004 12:42:41 AM |
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In article <MPG.1aa5c4138d977c5c98a3c6@news.individual.net>,
quibbler <quibbler247@yahoo.com> wrote:
Ah yes, the hilarious xer holidays are upon us again. I love seeing
people wander around with little black smudges on their foreheads. It's
almost as funny as people who drag around a trail of toilet paper stuck
to their shoe or something. Anyway, you know that the churches are
looking to cash in on Ca$h wednesday as all the gullible xers pony up
money for the collection plate.
However, my favorite holiday of the season is Good (Riddance) Friday. I
always thought that we should celebrate the death (and non-resurrection)
of Jesus rather than his birth. The world is definitely a better place
without crazy, worthless, megalomaniacal winos and moochers like Jesus in
it.
Of course Mardi Gras is also pretty cool. It shows how happy people
could be without religion.
I can't believe that years ago as a kid, I was actually into that stuff.
We used to have serious discussions about what we were going to give up
for Lent. You were supposed to give up candy, or going to the movies, or
something else that you liked. It was to do 'penance' for your sins. I
was a little kid, darn it! How bad could I be? During Lent, we were
supposed to eat meat only once a day (none at all on Fridays) and were
allowed only two other light meals a day, and nothing in between.
Every Ash Wednesday the nuns would herd all of us kids over to the
church to make sure that we got 'smudged'. Worse yet, I had to walk all
of the way home with the 'smudge' still on or my parents would get
upset. For some reason, they never got smudged themselves.
The only good thing about Easter (named after a pagan goddess) was that
we got lots of candy and treats and the Lent nonsense was over.
--
John Hachmann aa #1782
"Men become civilized not in their willingness to believe, bit in
proportion to their readiness to doubt." - H. L. Mencken
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| User: "quibbler" |
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| Title: Re: Fat Tuesday, Ca$h Wednesday and Good (Riddance) Friday |
25 Feb 2004 06:21:41 PM |
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In article <jhachm-E94550.22424124022004@news-60.giganews.com>,
jhachm@ixpresremove.com says...
Every Ash Wednesday the nuns would herd all of us kids over to the
church to make sure that we got 'smudged'. Worse yet, I had to walk all
of the way home with the 'smudge' still on or my parents would get
upset. For some reason, they never got smudged themselves.
That's because religion usually reserves the worst torture for children.
That way they will be traumatized and pass it on to future generations.
--
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Quibbler (quibbler247atyahoo.com)
"It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the
threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, 'mad cow'
disease, and many others, but I think a case can be
made that faith is one of the world's great evils,
comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to
eradicate." -- Richard Dawkins
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| User: "johac" |
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| Title: Re: Fat Tuesday, Ca$h Wednesday and Good (Riddance) Friday |
26 Feb 2004 12:11:53 AM |
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In article <MPG.1aa6ea008f05b2d998a3cd@news.individual.net>,
quibbler <quibbler247@yahoo.com> wrote:
In article <jhachm-E94550.22424124022004@news-60.giganews.com>,
jhachm@ixpresremove.com says...
Every Ash Wednesday the nuns would herd all of us kids over to the
church to make sure that we got 'smudged'. Worse yet, I had to walk all
of the way home with the 'smudge' still on or my parents would get
upset. For some reason, they never got smudged themselves.
That's because religion usually reserves the worst torture for children.
That way they will be traumatized and pass it on to future generations.
I didn't have any kids, but if I did, they would have lived in a smudge
free zone. The big lesson that I learned about religion as a kid is
that I want absolutely nothing to do with it.
--
John Hachmann aa #1782
"Men become civilized not in their willingness to believe, bit in
proportion to their readiness to doubt." - H. L. Mencken
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| User: "Beowulf" |
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| Title: Re: Fat Tuesday, Ca$h Wednesday and Good (Riddance) Friday |
25 Feb 2004 10:41:35 AM |
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On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 20:27:33 -0700, quibbler <quibbler247@yahoo.com>
ejaculated:
Ah yes, the hilarious xer holidays are upon us again. I love seeing
people wander around with little black smudges on their foreheads. It's
almost as funny as people who drag around a trail of toilet paper stuck
to their shoe or something. Anyway, you know that the churches are
looking to cash in on Ca$h wednesday as all the gullible xers pony up
money for the collection plate.
Not all the gullible christers, just mainly the gullible
Catholics...and maybe some of the high church Protestants (like
Lutherans and Episcopalians). Many gullible Christers don't
"celebrate" Ash Wednesday.
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<http://www20.brinkster.com/beowulf9/gottod/Jesus%20Hates%20The%20Little%20Children.html>
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