Another misconception many have about angels is when they refer to people as angels. This phrase is used especially when referring to infants and children. However, our infants and children are not little angels. All people are created in the image and likeness of God, not in the image and likeness of angels. Genesis 1:27: So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. Calling a person an angel is underestimating their true of identity in the Lord.
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This quote is a euphemism for. "I am a gullible nitwit who enjoys drooling as a recreational pastime. Please don't try to help me as it's my right to have stupid children if I want."
Similarly, shouting from the roof top is a euphemism for "deranged nutter does not seek medical help but is, in fact, strangely comforted by his or her unreasoned barking".
As an Athiest I agree. Not fundy but actually correct.
Too often Christians refer to people as 'angels' or have this belief that good human souls can turn into angels in heaven. This is untrue and not part of Christian dogma. Humans and Angels are different species. Angels are 20 feet tall and bathed in fire.
Its all fairytales of course, but I just hate it when religious people don't understand their own beliefs.
Also - "created in his own image" is a mistranslation. It does not mean we look like God. It means God made us look the way he choose us too. We were created to look the way God imagined us to look. God has no form and is certainly not a big guy in the clouds with a beard.
As for angel's gender... Angels have gender specific names and some theologies talk about angels mating with humans but angels are without gender. They can take on human form though so technically could fake it.
Well, they are right. The idea of angels being human-looking with one pair of wings is not in the bible.
The angels there are (very) different kinds of beings, often described as something straight out of an acid trip...
I refer to many, many people as "dude". I do not mean to imply that they are out of place, city slickers, or overdressed. It's just a generic address. Just like angel is often just a generic complement (or standard-issue sarcasm).
@Pedantic Atheist
Well put. For anyone willing to delve into the appropriate lore, quite a few subtypes of angel look like something out of the Cthulu mythos...
Nothing is too petty for the True Christian to use to demonstrate their spiritual superiority.
Also, this is why it was wrong to stop teaching poetry in schools. Nobody has any fucking idea what a metaphor is.
But it sounds so much nicer than saying, "What a little squalling, puking, shitting and pissing proto-person you have there. Looks kind of like someone stuck a doll's head on a Butterball turkey.
Moms seem to get pissed off when you put it that way.
Repeat after me class: words can change and mean new things!
Angel became a synonym for well-behaved.
I wonder what this one would do if somebody named their kid Angel?
So angels are Gender Netural?
That's what I'm getting here.
That's a good point, Ivurm . Are there any original, specific gender references to angels in the Bible, though? Or Apocrypha, for that matter?
I know of Gabriel in the New Testament, and Micheal the archangel, who are both described in English gendered pronouns as male-though to be fair, being unable to speak Latin, Ancient Greek, or Aramaic, they could be originally described as just "an angel" and only in English did they take the connotation as male.
However, since this person is writing in English, and presumably using an English Bible...then if they think that angels are ungendered, they are just stupid.
P.S.-This person's whole site could be on here, really.
I agree. Actual angels are awful. They have long tusks, eight arms and nine armpits (The extra one they call their "sexing" armpit-- ewww). They weigh 900 pounds, eat expensive ferns, and have thick Scottish accents.
Angels get drunk off of hydrocarbons. That's why the world has gone to hell since the industrial revolution. It used to be you would wake up to find some tipsy angel drank your lantern oil. Nowadays, they hang around refineries getting shit-faced. Not a decent days work amongst them. Fucking assholes.
Oh by the way, if some beautiful shimmering, floating siren should appear before you, bekoning you towards it with the implied promise of a sexy good time, Don't Fucking Do It. You'll wake up naked behind a Texaco with sore armpits and stinking of ferns. Trust me on this. Not that it happened to me.
Well duh. Haven't you played Bayonetta? Angels are shaped like cars, wheels, snakes, swords, squid things, battleships, women, balls of tentacles, balls of metal, birds, centaurs, hourglasses, etc etc.
So, "unknown", if that's your real name. you, personally, more closely resemble "God" than you do angels.
Or do you mean Angels? Guys dressed up in baseball player costumes. Both?
It's generally not about looks, but about behaviour.
We usually call our daughter our blonde little imp.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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