Yesterday I saw His Noodly Appendage in a dish of spaghetti. It’s a miracle I tell ya. Ramen

I wonder why the religous care if they see symbolism - it doesn’t meen anything or change anything, and I doubt the real deal would throw it’s support behind specific dodgy human theories as if to say “this is the one”, I’d also wonder why an omnipotent god should care what people on earth think or do

As an admittedly lapsed Lebanese Maronite Christian, I am rather annoyed by the inaccuracy of this statement:

“Allah, the Muslim God”

Allah is a muslim

I’d only believe this if the message was in big bold clear writing along the lines of “This is a message from God - boo!” and it was contained within at least 20 items from different sources - and it all happened simultaneously.

That still wouldn’t convince me

Then again a god or prohpet could walk up to me in the street, provide a perfectly rational (and bullet proof) arguement to prove who they are, then procede to beat the crap out of me to illustrate their point further (if rationality doesnt work, surely violence will) and i still wouldn’t believe them. Then again this conversation has happened before, some of those crazy street folk can be quite persuasive when sober.

To paraphrase something from I forgot where:

I can believe that controlling aliens exist.

You could convince me that a creator exists.

Nothing will convince me that the god of any religion exists.

To paraphrase something from I forgot where:

I can believe that controlling aliens exist.

You could convince me that a creator exists.

Nothing will convince me that the god of any religion exists.

How do you distinguish between a creator and a god? Especially when the definition of god is just “creator”, for example the god of deism?

Incidently how does one distinguish between the Islamo-christian god and a Raelian-alien? The islamo-christian god satisfies the criteria of being an extra-universal, naturally occuring entity which has created our space-time contiuum. So assuming the fundies are absolutely correct about everything, in what sense is god not an alien? Taking it one step further, what is the difference between a creationist and a Raelian?

According to Chubus on another blog (TRA), Raelians do anal. But, then again, that may not be a specific critia. According to most evidence about the Greek and Roman gods . . . 

How do you distinguish between a creator and a god? Especially when the definition of god is just “creator”, for example the god of deism?

I took that as more that organized religions are absurd and full of contradictions.

I think of the god concept as like a governer (if he had any involvement with us), it’s not necessary that the god is also the creator, especially in polytheism. It’s not even necessary (even in monotheism) that an original creator still exists, much like the original tribespeople that established a country - where you can potentially have one god/president, but they’re not the founder

How do you distinguish between a creator and a god? Especially when the definition of god is just “creator”, for example the god of deism?

By not being fundamentalist about an off-the-cuff remark.

Point taken

I wonder WHICH name of God was on the chappatti, and whether he’s still searching for the other one’s.

Julian, what is your avatar? Some sort of First Person RPG character?

A rodent with a nightclub lightstick?

It looks funky, but I can’t figure it out!

Whoops, sorry for the mistreatment of the apostrophe. Then again, there are always more where that one came from.

Its Desann, the primary antagonist of Jedi Outcast. So yes, it is a First Person RPG character.

And that nightclub lightstick is a lightsaber.

I had a Muslim friend that showed me a website devoted to signs of Allah.  All I saw was a bunch of coincidental, over-photo-shopped shit…

Apparently in Texas there are Gas Station attendents with Jesus’ name written on them. Freaky eh?