someone said "god bless" to me once ... i requested a supervisor and was exceedingly impolite about the fact that I had been horribly offended.
I hate it when people say "god bless you." Y'know, if your god exists, I'm guessing he's a little too busy to care if I sneeze, or if I hold the door open for you. And besides that, he doesn't take orders from you. You don't get to command god's blessings.
As for passivity and the idea that it's all "god's will," I call shenannigans. It's like that whole thing where sports teams always thank god when they win, but no one ever blames god when they lose. How come it's only god's will when it's a convenient explanation?
you've probly heard this one before, but...angriestbeaverNovember 18 2006, 11:08:25 UTC
I was always told not to say "damn it" (well, swearing was bad in general, but at least this prohibition was explained), because that swear was derived from "God damn it", and it would be very disrespectful of me to try to command God by telling him to damn something. That was the primary reason-- NOT because "damning" something is negative and all that, but because I would be improperly trying to tell God what to do.
You'd then have the same problem with saying, "God bless you", no?
"First I must remove the plank from my own eye, so that I might see clearly to remove the splinter from my neighbor's eye."
A misquotation, I'm sure, but it's close enough.
I enjoyed this post.
Well, it will diffuse MOST angry callers. People get all tippy-toed around religion, as we all know.
I've been spoiled by school. I dismiss forwards like this as not worth comment, because when I read the beginning, it sounds like a child wrote it. The language and thoughts are disappointingly simple (in any sense of the word). If you do choose to be religious, "submitting" to god should not cause philosophical retardation.
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I hate it when people say "god bless you." Y'know, if your god exists, I'm guessing he's a little too busy to care if I sneeze, or if I hold the door open for you. And besides that, he doesn't take orders from you. You don't get to command god's blessings.
As for passivity and the idea that it's all "god's will," I call shenannigans. It's like that whole thing where sports teams always thank god when they win, but no one ever blames god when they lose. How come it's only god's will when it's a convenient explanation?
You know, if they read their bibles... *sigh*
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You'd then have the same problem with saying, "God bless you", no?
Meh.
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when I'm thinking about it, I say "god fucking damn it all to hell." ;)
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A misquotation, I'm sure, but it's close enough.
I enjoyed this post.
Well, it will diffuse MOST angry callers. People get all tippy-toed around religion, as we all know.
I've been spoiled by school. I dismiss forwards like this as not worth comment, because when I read the beginning, it sounds like a child wrote it. The language and thoughts are disappointingly simple (in any sense of the word). If you do choose to be religious, "submitting" to god should not cause philosophical retardation.
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Hahahaha
I would like a shirt that says this.
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if not, go to a t-shirt place and have them work it up as a sample :)
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