(commenting on headline from satirical fundamentalist Christian "Babylon Bee" website - their headline: "Convicted By Clear Teaching Of Scripture, Local Man Decides Scripture Is Unclear")
More satire from Babylon Bee on the alt-left...hilarious.
http://babylonbee.com/news/convicted-clear-teaching-scripture-local-man-decides-scripture-unclear/
Lady Checkmate:
Dale Murrish:
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Why is it "hilarious" that scripture might be unclear? Ever wonder why there are over 30 thousand denominations of Christianity?
Most Christians baptize infants, and claim to have scriptural backing to do so. But Baptists and a few others don't, claiming they have scriptural backing for not doing it. Scripture obviously isn't clear then, is it guys?
Babylon Bee gets most of its so-called humor from laughing at the criticisms levelled at Christians by atheists. It goes for the style of "The Onion" but leaves itself as a target.
At least these guys acknowledge it's satire, unlike Amos, who a few times has just posted a headline from their site with no other comment, or without even saying where it was from.
Well, I find it a little funny. Strikes too close to the bone to be hilarious. This is a complaint I've heard from several honest Christians, that the Faithful, especially the Very Publically Faithful, aren't really reading god's word to understand, just using it as a source of footnotes.
Of course, Lady Checkmate thinks that anyone critical of any aspect of Christianity is of the alt-left, an atheist god-hater, so she mocks their mockery as hilarious.
Which would tend to make her one of the people targeting by the original complaint...
Ironically, this is what all Christians do. If there's an embarrassing passage in the bible, they try to claim that it doesn't mean what it actually means. Like all the passages about slavery, for example, or the Levitical laws.
Nobody tell her about Landover Baptist, then.
Checkmate, Lady.
...oh, and a creation by J. Michael Straczynski included elements of religious critique & satire:
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Particularly the above eponymous O'Neill Cylinder space station.
Which went infinitely higher than the International Space Station, never mind that structure mentioned in a certain book of fairytales. And it's commander John Sheridan met the First One: Lorien, who is older than God: and one of the First Ones - the Shadows - are billions of years old.
Looking at the link, it seems that, whatever this guy's supposed position is (I didn't actually see it mentioned anywhere), he's come across several Bible passages which agree with his position, and several that disagree with his position, and therefore concluded that biblical scripture is unclear - an entirely reasonable and logical conclusion. This is supposed to be a satirical article, but I actually find it much more amusing that some Christians obviously find this to be a ridiculous conclusion to come to.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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