Flackjackets, Rhino Skin Waistcoats The Children of Hiroshima.
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 2:53 am
Recently when I returned to Forum Garden I was told that politics & religion were now the dominant topics on the boards. I was also advised to buy myself a flack jacket. So yesterday I visited my local army surplus store to buy one. Unfortunately I was told that flack jackets were not for sale to the general public as they tend to give bank robbers an unfair advantage.
So I found a retro store close by & managed to buy a neat second-hand rhinoceros skin waistcoat with beautiful mother of pearl buttons. I’m wearing it as I write this. Hope it’s bulletproof!
Like funerals, religious & political discussions seem to bring out the worst in people. Ever noticed that when someone dies, the first people to arrive to express their sympathy are those who had absolutely nothing to do with the deceased while they were alive? I guess they figure that they might just be mentioned in the will.
Went to a function last Saturday evening where provincial/state colors were presented to sportsmen & women. The master of ceremonies opened proceedings with a prayer. The assumption on his part that all present were believers left me feeling slightly irritated.
Of course this got me thinking about flack jackets & later rhino skin waistcoats.
Religion comes from a period in our distant past when our ancestors were afraid of their own shadows. They were totally ignorant as to the cause of illness, eclipses and also freak weather conditions - all easily explainable today. Most 21st century primary school kids know more about these things than the most learned sage of pre-history. The Aztecs ripped the still beating heart from a human chest every day just to appease there god and thereby insure that the sun would rise the following day.
The writers of the bible had a simple formula. Take that which had already happened & change it into a biblical story. Many phrases in the bible are a direct copy of those found in the Egyptian Book of the Dead. This was described by one of the popes as “a curious coincidence.” The deluge (flood) is a tradition found across the globe with absolutely no sacred character at all. And so the holy fathers of the church worked through a chronology of absurdities of literal interpretations and compiled the bible.
I shall go no further in the thread. Atheists will always nod their heads & believers will shake theirs, but can I get an intelligent answer to these questions?
1) For what obscure reason did god adopt the Israelites?
2) Where was god during Auschwitz?
3) Where was god when the flash of the atomic bomb melted the eyes of the children of Hiroshima?
So I found a retro store close by & managed to buy a neat second-hand rhinoceros skin waistcoat with beautiful mother of pearl buttons. I’m wearing it as I write this. Hope it’s bulletproof!
Like funerals, religious & political discussions seem to bring out the worst in people. Ever noticed that when someone dies, the first people to arrive to express their sympathy are those who had absolutely nothing to do with the deceased while they were alive? I guess they figure that they might just be mentioned in the will.
Went to a function last Saturday evening where provincial/state colors were presented to sportsmen & women. The master of ceremonies opened proceedings with a prayer. The assumption on his part that all present were believers left me feeling slightly irritated.
Of course this got me thinking about flack jackets & later rhino skin waistcoats.
Religion comes from a period in our distant past when our ancestors were afraid of their own shadows. They were totally ignorant as to the cause of illness, eclipses and also freak weather conditions - all easily explainable today. Most 21st century primary school kids know more about these things than the most learned sage of pre-history. The Aztecs ripped the still beating heart from a human chest every day just to appease there god and thereby insure that the sun would rise the following day.
The writers of the bible had a simple formula. Take that which had already happened & change it into a biblical story. Many phrases in the bible are a direct copy of those found in the Egyptian Book of the Dead. This was described by one of the popes as “a curious coincidence.” The deluge (flood) is a tradition found across the globe with absolutely no sacred character at all. And so the holy fathers of the church worked through a chronology of absurdities of literal interpretations and compiled the bible.
I shall go no further in the thread. Atheists will always nod their heads & believers will shake theirs, but can I get an intelligent answer to these questions?
1) For what obscure reason did god adopt the Israelites?
2) Where was god during Auschwitz?
3) Where was god when the flash of the atomic bomb melted the eyes of the children of Hiroshima?