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Wow. Just. ...wow.
Posted on: October 4, 2008 - 5:09pm
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Wow. Just. ...wow.
Leave it to the bibble belt to support something like this. I guess the 'haunted trail' format is easily converted to xtianity? Who knew.
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Weird they don't really explain what it is. Not much different in concept from those "Hell Houses" the fundie churches have had for years.
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Mount Vernon Baptist Church, eh? Where'd they get that guy who wants to sound like Elton John but doesn't?
Atheism isn't a lot like religion at all. Unless by "religion" you mean "not religion". --Ciarin
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--just about anything that gains any level of popularity can, and will, be used by Christians as a pretext for preaching. Consider:
"Weird Al" Yankovic--------Mark Lowery
Haunted Houses at Halloween--------Hell Houses, same time of year
Secular rock/pop--------Christian rock/pop
Secular stand-up comedians------Brad Stine
Secular novels, made into movies------Left Behind
T-shirts, based on secular ideas (e.g., Tide detergent)------T-shirst punning
about those same ideas (i.e., "Washed in the Tide" shirts)
Consider that almost any topic can be, and has been, turned into a religious discussion by the person who was waiting for their "opportunity." That one take-off (Hell Houses) seems to have spawned another (Tribulation Trails) does not surprise me in the least. Indeed, it seems to be Standard Operating Procedure.
Conor
Good points Conor , as always .... i god, fuck abraham's god idol crap.
This is really screwed up. The Haunted House of Jesus.
Our revels now are ended. These our actors, | As I foretold you, were all spirits, and | Are melted into air, into thin air; | And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, | The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, | The solemn temples, the great globe itself, - Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, | And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, | Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff | As dreams are made on, and our little life | Is rounded with a sleep. - Shakespeare
Drunken field trip, anyone?
Oh my... don't tempt me with something like this unless you really mean it.
Atheism isn't a lot like religion at all. Unless by "religion" you mean "not religion". --Ciarin
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According to the FAQ, it is very "realistic." Wonder what that means.
holy fucking shit, i am in on that. i should be in the states in december. i can bring along my buddies, a bunch of kentucky boys with nothing but contempt for the church and little to live for beyond whiskey, beer, and black and milds. we will fuck that shit up.
"I have never felt comfortable around people who talk about their feelings for Jesus, or any other deity for that matter, because they are usually none too bright. . . . Or maybe 'stupid' is a better way of saying it; but I have never seen much point in getting heavy with either stupid people or Jesus freaks, just as long as they don't bother me. In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone. They will not inherit the earth, but then neither will I. . . . And I have learned to live, as it were, with the idea that I will never find peace and happiness, either. But as long as I know there's a pretty good chance I can get my hands on either one of them every once in a while, I do the best I can between high spots."
--Hunter S. Thompson
Oh, it'll be long gone by December, but we wholeheartedly encourage your fucking up shit in Kentucky.
"The whole conception of God is a conception derived from ancient Oriental despotisms. It is a conception quite unworthy of free men."
--Bertrand Russell
goddammit! since when is hell ever out of season?
"I have never felt comfortable around people who talk about their feelings for Jesus, or any other deity for that matter, because they are usually none too bright. . . . Or maybe 'stupid' is a better way of saying it; but I have never seen much point in getting heavy with either stupid people or Jesus freaks, just as long as they don't bother me. In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone. They will not inherit the earth, but then neither will I. . . . And I have learned to live, as it were, with the idea that I will never find peace and happiness, either. But as long as I know there's a pretty good chance I can get my hands on either one of them every once in a while, I do the best I can between high spots."
--Hunter S. Thompson
Hell takes a one month hiatus in December when Jeebus is the (lack of) reason for the season. They applied for a longer sabbatical, but were denied.
I can see it now, boys. If we went to this thing with a flask it would all start innocently enough...you guys would be spewing comments that the yokles would not understand. THEN, one guy that went to Fight the Atheist Seminary would 'catch on' and then we would all three become incarcerated in Deliverance land to never be heard from again.
I don't know that I can participate...and I'd hate to lose you boys...I'm quite fond of both of you!
Don't worry. I'll bring a gun or two. Everything will be just fine.
"The whole conception of God is a conception derived from ancient Oriental despotisms. It is a conception quite unworthy of free men."
--Bertrand Russell
no, no...see, this is why you need a kentucky boy along. i know how to speak their language. i can speak hillbilly, redneck, country folk, and numerous other dialects, as well as their religious variations: baptist, methodist, pentecostal, christian (yes, there is a "christian" denomination, very popular in eastern ky; i grew up in that church). i can even speak a little louisiana catholic if need be. oh, and jehovah's witness. my grandmother was a jehovah's witness, so i got that covered too.
i'm like a bible belt C3PO.
"I have never felt comfortable around people who talk about their feelings for Jesus, or any other deity for that matter, because they are usually none too bright. . . . Or maybe 'stupid' is a better way of saying it; but I have never seen much point in getting heavy with either stupid people or Jesus freaks, just as long as they don't bother me. In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone. They will not inherit the earth, but then neither will I. . . . And I have learned to live, as it were, with the idea that I will never find peace and happiness, either. But as long as I know there's a pretty good chance I can get my hands on either one of them every once in a while, I do the best I can between high spots."
--Hunter S. Thompson
In South Carolina we find that the click a Colt Python's hammer makes is something of a universal language throughout the Bible Belt.
"The whole conception of God is a conception derived from ancient Oriental despotisms. It is a conception quite unworthy of free men."
--Bertrand Russell
a colt python!? jesus fucking christ, how big are the squirrels in carolina?
"I have never felt comfortable around people who talk about their feelings for Jesus, or any other deity for that matter, because they are usually none too bright. . . . Or maybe 'stupid' is a better way of saying it; but I have never seen much point in getting heavy with either stupid people or Jesus freaks, just as long as they don't bother me. In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone. They will not inherit the earth, but then neither will I. . . . And I have learned to live, as it were, with the idea that I will never find peace and happiness, either. But as long as I know there's a pretty good chance I can get my hands on either one of them every once in a while, I do the best I can between high spots."
--Hunter S. Thompson
ROFL!
I don't often guffaw, but that's just fucking funny.
Atheism isn't a lot like religion at all. Unless by "religion" you mean "not religion". --Ciarin
http://hambydammit.wordpress.com/
Books about atheism
Well, you do know the Feds made most of the isotopes for our nuclear weapons stockpile right on the Savannah River, don't you? Consequently, everything is huge and mutated and stupid, especially the people.
"The whole conception of God is a conception derived from ancient Oriental despotisms. It is a conception quite unworthy of free men."
--Bertrand Russell