The catholic priest thing got me thinking,

"Jesus is my shepherd blah blah blah". And all the stuff about christians being sheep and god/jesus being the shepherd.
Realizing that the folks who lived 2k years ago would have understood what shepherding meant..
Do modern christians just not have a freaking clue about what they really are saying?

A shepherd is there to protect the sheep yes, but last i checked, for his own benefit- to later sell, eat, or shear the sheep. It has jack to do with benefiting the sheep becuase they're sheep, it's all about what the shepherd gets out of it in the end.

That I mean and...i mean, you're comparing yourself to a barn animal. Really now. And not the brightest one in the barn either. Following like sheep isn't a particularly *good* thing in most situations. Having your own thoughts ideas and direction is something better in my book.

I mean the whole idea it's cutesy i suppose, does anyone else see the problems with it when they think about it for 2 seconds though? Or am i simply unique in that regard.

10/9/2005 12:45:05 AM

1) frosh's post
2) it was NEVER "Jesus is my shepherd"
3) there is this crazy thing called a "metaphor." Look it up.

10/9/2005 12:51:41 AM

Haha

You're almost like the liberal version of aaronburro.

[Edited on October 9, 2005 at 12:52 AM. Reason : ^^]

10/9/2005 12:52:30 AM

^^
can't help w/ 2 & 3, but I've got 1 covered...

http://www.thewolfweb.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=75081

Quote :

"FroshKiller: Hi. You're probably new to the Wolf Web. In fact, I'm willing to bet you're new to college in general. It's an exciting time, isn't it? I'm sure that you have been exposed to many ideas and perspectives you'd never realized existed, and you're just bursting with enthusiasm at the thought of sharing a few ideas of your own with your peers now that you find yourself in an academic environment that seems perfectly suited to such an exchange. Why don't we go a little further? Odds are you consider yourself very intelligent. In fact, you're probably so intelligent that you've figured out all the quirks and kinks of organized religion--or at least Christianity. Yeah, that's it, isn't it? You were probably raised in a Christian household and resent that upbringing for limiting your personal freedoms, so it's only natural that you'd seek to undermine Christ's teachings and save others from having such a faulty belief system for their own good. Pretty cool of you, isn't it? You've really got it together. FUCK YOU YOU STUPID FUCKING FAGGOT COLLEGE KID LET ME TELL YOU A SECRET NONE OF YOUR THOUGHTS ON RELIGION ARE RADICAL OR EVEN THOUGHT-PROVOKING IT'S NO SECRET YOU GOT THEM OFF A FUCKING WEBSITE WE'VE ALL READ THE PROSELYTIZER QUESTIONNAIRE TOO NOTHING YOU CAN SAY IS GOING TO LEND A FRESH OUTLOOK DO YOU EVEN UNDERSTAND THAT FOR SEVERAL FUCKING CENTURIES NOW SOME OF THE MOST EDUCATED PEOPLE IN THE ANNALS OF HUMAN HISTORY HAVE DEVOTED THEIR LIVES TO ANSWERING DEEPER THEOLOGICAL CONCERNS THAN YOUR PETTY BULLSHIT ABOUT THE DISCREPANCIES IN THE GENEALOGIES OF CHRIST IN THE GOSPELS? I MEAN HOLY FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU'RE THE ONLY COCKSUCKER WHO EVER NOTICED THAT OR SOMETHING?! WAKE THE FUCK UP YOU'RE STILL JUST A STUPID KID AND WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO DO IS SHAMEFUL INCONSIDERATE AND DISRESPECTFUL BECAUSE MAYBE YOU'RE TOO MUCH OF A PUSSY TO LIVE ACCORDING TO A STRICT MORAL CODE AND MAYBE YOU'RE TOO MUCH OF A PUSSY TO ACTUALLY TRY AND DEVELOP A STRONG, HONORABLE CHARACTER BUT THAT DOESN'T MAKE IT RIGHT FOR YOU TO ATTACK MILLIONS UPON MILLIONS OF PEOPLE NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU TRY TO PLAY THE VICTIM TALKING ABOUT HOW THEY "FORCE THEIR BELIEFS" ON YOU BY HANDING OUT A FUCKING PAMPHLET I MEAN HOLY FUCKING CHRIST WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO DO IS TEN TIMES WORSE GET OVER YOURSELF ALREADY THIS REBELLION AGAINST MOMMY AND DADDY ISN'T IMPRESSING ANYONE WE'VE SEEN IT BEFORE YOU ARE NOT THE FIRST YOU ARE NOT EVEN REMARKABLE STOP ARGUING WITH GARY HE IS MAKING A FOOL OF YOU I SWEAR UPON THE BODY AND BLOOD OF THE PIERCED FUCKING JEW KING THAT IF YOU PULL THIS SALISBURYBOY, SYLVERSHADOW KIND OF SHIT ON ME YOU WORTHLESS WICCAN PANTYSTAIN I WILL SPLIT THE TENDER TISSUES OF YOUR WEEPING ASSHOLE WITH A HARDCOVER EDITION OF THE NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION OF THE HOLY FUCKING BIBLE YOU THINK YOU'RE SO FUCKING SMART I'D LIKE TO SEE YOU DO THE SAME SHIT WITH ANY RELIGION BESIDES CHRISTIANITY OR JUDAISM WITH SOME BOOK BESIDES THE BIBLE OR THE TORAH YOU AIDS-FELCHING CUM FLAKE SO PUT THAT IN YOUR FUCKING PIPE YOU JUST BOUGHT FROM BUDDHA'S BELLY THE FIRST WEEKEND YOU WERE UP HERE AND SMOKE IT YOU FUCKING FAGGOT COLLEGE KID and that's my word."

10/9/2005 12:54:09 AM

LadyWolff please go make babies with Hankypank in the lounge and leave the soapbox unmolested by your trite thoughts

10/9/2005 12:54:39 AM

^ Ha, they do seem like they would make a good couple.

She would probably abort the babies though...

[Edited on October 9, 2005 at 12:58 AM. Reason : .]

10/9/2005 12:57:33 AM

well, she might make babies w/ hankypank, but she'd then abort them, cause its just her body anyway

10/9/2005 12:57:41 AM

good maybe then Hankypank would murder suicide and we'd be rid of them both

10/9/2005 12:59:33 AM

sweet!

10/9/2005 1:02:49 AM

I don't even know where to start with this one.

10/9/2005 1:03:55 AM

petition the mods to delete

10/9/2005 1:05:18 AM

i think the best place to start is that little arrow that faces to the left...

10/9/2005 1:05:19 AM

Quote :

"think about it for 2 seconds "

There's the problem.

10/9/2005 1:13:05 AM

Why don't we have a contest to see who can post the most "Christianity sucks, Christians are all stupid" threads. Apparently the moderators are going to allow it for some reason which I'm sure must make sense to someone. (Probably because they're not around - Jennifer is a lawyer now - but still then they need to get people in here to moderate things)

[Edited on October 9, 2005 at 4:32 AM. Reason : add]

10/9/2005 4:30:26 AM

Quote :

"That I mean and...i mean, you're comparing yourself to a barn animal."

Nice double use of "I mean," but more importantly, the idea is to say that we are to God what sheep are to men. Compared to God, we are barnyard animals, if that.

I apologize that the literary skill of men "folks who lived 2k years ago" has flown so far over your head. I have to assume that God will save you like I figure He saves most retarded people who can't understand what He was trying to say.

10/9/2005 5:33:45 AM

Quote :

"I apologize that the literary skill of men "folks who lived 2k years ago" has flown so far over your head."

To be fair, most things fly right over her head.

10/9/2005 3:17:05 PM

On a side note:

I always wondered if that whole Jesus as "the lamb of God" is the reason why so many southerners (my father included) refuse to eat lamb.

10/9/2005 3:32:20 PM

along the same lines, I find it curious that lamb is also a popular Easter dinner....

10/9/2005 3:34:11 PM

have you ever had Lamb?
its ain't that good

10/9/2005 3:35:07 PM

^^ I didn't know about that. Wacky.

10/9/2005 3:35:22 PM

^^

Uh, yes -- it's my favorite red meat, next to venison. I've had it hundreds of times.

But no thanks to my father -- and it's not that he just doesn't think it's good, he just outright refuses to eat it. And he's not the first or last southerner I've met with that hangup.

10/9/2005 3:37:16 PM

yeah, who knew -

Quote :

"Among the popular Easter symbols, the lamb is by far the most significant of this great feast. The Easter lamb, representing Christ, with the flag of victory, may be seen in pictures and images in the homes of every central and eastern European family. The oldest prayer for the blessing of lambs can be found in the seventh-century sacramentary (ritual book) of the Benedictine monastery, Bobbio in Italy. Two hundred years later Rome had adopted it, and thereafter the main feature of the Pope's Easter dinner for many centuries was roast lamb. After the tenth century, in place of the whole lamb, smaller pieces of meat were used. In some Benedictine monasteries, however, even today whole lambs are still blessed with the ancient prayers."

http://www.intermirifica.org/easter/eastsymbol.htm

but hey - as long as they're eating Christ's blood and flesh whenever they take communion, they might as well go all out with the cannibalism metaphors on Easter.

10/9/2005 3:40:14 PM

But its a darn lamb

10/9/2005 4:38:08 PM