I'm a Catholic atheist: a culturally Cathoilic nonbeliever.

The Dude wrote:The Vatican has been pro-Evolution for about 50 years now

50? Longer than that. If you read Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time, I believe he mentions that the Roman Catholic Church, having been so badly embarassed by trying to dictate science to people (denying the Earth was round, for example), was the very FIRST organized Christian religion to accept Darwin's teachings, and, IIRC, it wasn't long after the Origin of Species was firt published.

your response took 50 years lol

First time I ever saw this thread.

those two pictures are different enough, imo. the first could be my uncle, the second, not so much.

Warszawa wrote:I wonder how many right-wing christian evangelicals in this country can wrap their brain around the fact that Jesus didn't actually speak english, followed Jewish customs, and probably looked more like this than the glorified anglican version found in most images.

I would imagine most right wing Christian evangelicals are well aware of this.

Houshphandzadeh wrote:Do those really look that different except that the first one is made to look all unkempt and in a more aggressive pose?

Putting Jesus in soft light doesn't seem that crazy to me.

Pretty different. It's not the soft light.

Isn't Jesus an Hispanic name? Neither of those guys look Latino to me.

Dude still can't hit a curveball

jerseyhoya wrote:

Warszawa wrote:I wonder how many right-wing christian evangelicals in this country can wrap their brain around the fact that Jesus didn't actually speak english, followed Jewish customs, and probably looked more like this than the glorified anglican version found in most images.

I would imagine most right wing Christian evangelicals are well aware of this.

Since many take the bible as historical fact I have to wonder about their sense of reason.

Warszawa wrote:Since many take the bible as historical fact I have to wonder about their sense of reason.

That is why you FAIL.

can we do something about this pope? i mean, him being a hitler youth should have been enough of a tipoff as to his intentions, but the guy is just a little too evil to be tolerated.

This is a relief of the negative image from the Shroud of Turin...




An artist's rendition based on the shroud image...




so, Jesus looked like Bill Ward (far left, both photos) of Black Sabbath?!

Jesus looks like a Geico caveman

It was written that Wards would save the human race from sin.

steagles wrote:can we do something about this pope? i mean, him being a hitler youth should have been enough of a tipoff as to his intentions, but the guy is just a little too evil to be tolerated.

I know. As someone who no longer practices but still considers himself to be a culturally Catholic, I am pissed off every time I hear about Benedict. The views on homosexuality (not a surprise, but still), letting Holocaust deniers back into the Church, the snarky attitude about the sex abuse scandal... this guy is just a loser in every way possible. He's the Catholic George W. Bush. He can't die fast enough to suit me.

The Red Tornado wrote:Why differentiate between Catholic and Christian if youre not going to differentiate between the protestants? (some of which have more differences than say an Episcopalian have with a Catholic)

Just read this thread and want to point out that the basic choices of the original poll kind of bother me as a practicing Eastern Orthodox Christian. Lumping together all non-Catholic Christians is wrong on the surface IMHO, but it's particularly egregious to at the very least not list the three separate major branches of Christianity as choices.

I guess it particular bothers me because of the number of overbearing Evangelical Protestants who feel the need to tell me I'm "not Christian" even though my religion has been around for 2 centuries and is closely descended from the teaching of people who actually, y'know, knew Jesus. So, I kind of resent being lumped in a category that would feature such folks.

meh

i'm not going to break down 45 sects of christianity considering i didnt do it for any others, and didnt even include other religions


edit: found a good compromise

Christianity has three branches - Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Protestant. Somehow Anglican never reached the status of branch, I guess because they're fundamentally Protestant. Lutheran, Baptist, Methodist, etc are denominations. The Amish would be a sect.

its not my fault you people cant agree on your book