I learned today in class that Nike means Goddess of victory. So every time we wear Nike shoes we are opening ourselves up to demons. Please brothers and sisters in Christ at the very least do not put these shoes or clothing on your children.
70 comments
My family used to have a rottweiler named Nike as a guard dog for our business. So by the fundie's 'logic,' every time we wear Nike shoes, we are also opening ourselves up to terrifying-looking canines that are actually sweet as sugar when you get to know them.
Seriously, she was a great dog. Couldn't pass mustard as a guard though, ended up having to adopt her off to a family.
How about demonic words like Wheel of Fortune (Fortuna)? Disney's Pluto? Easter (Astura)? Heavenly Father (another name for Jupiter)? Piety (Pieatas)? Uranium (Ouranos)? Tuesday? Thursday? Wednesday? Friday? Saturday? (all named Germanic pagan gods.) Don't get me started on the names of the months...
BAN HUMAN SPEECH AND BURN ALL DICTIONARIES I SAY!
It always sounds like it is so easy to get tricked into worshipping Satan.
surely that should work the other way round. Can't you trick people into being christians without realising it by, for example, blessing the office water cooler while no-one is looking?
If you're going to boycott Nike, at least do it for a good reason, like their appalling use of sweatshops.
You better not use an "Atlas" either (not that you would need one to find your trailer), or say nasty satanic words like "Thursday" or "Friday"
We of the NWO know how to infiltrate languages...Bwahahahahaha
Norm
So every time we wear Nike shoes we are opening ourselves up to demons.
According to you, everything has demons in it. Including computers and the internet.
So every time we wear Nike shoes we are opening ourselves up to demons.
According to you, everything has demons in it. Including computers and the internet.
Please brothers and sisters in Christ at the very least do not put these shoes or clothing on your children.
If only to stop them from turning into chavs.
Whoa... Just when you think the Rapture Retards are the outer limit, along comes a site that blows them out of the water. Raptards, you need to try much harder, you're rank amateurs.
"Ministering Delusion"
The word 'delusion' is way too over-used amongst anti-religion people. Seriously.
What, you think you're clever by substituting "Deliverance" with "Delusion"?
Indeed. And the Latin equivalent is Victoria, so Queen Victoria was a demon out of hell, and Pluto is the god of the underworld, so Mickey Mouses Dog is a demon as well.
What stupidity! Please be a POE
'Ministering Delusion' indeed. What an arse .
What kind of class did he/she learn this in?
Nike rocks.Huzzah demons!
fergus
Mercurius, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturnus, Uranus and Pluto are inventions of the devil. They're all named after Roman deities. And January was named after a two-faced Roman god. Cupid was a Roman god of erotic love. Etc etc etc...
@Pete
Seconded. Ye gods...
@emau99: But if there's nothing in your heart, or your head, then God can only judge you by what's on your feet.
If you're not wearing shoes either, I think he moves on to checking for nipple rings.
Reading the rest of the thread had me laughing my ass off. These people are so paranoid they see duh debbil in their morning bowl of cereal.
Jesus is lord over autism!
If your god gave a shit about autism, my two youngest children wouldn't have it and neither would anyone else, now would they?
"...People who subscribe to bizarre and irrational beliefs such as the possibility of opening oneself to demonic possession by wearing a particular brand of footwear are nothing less than deluded." -- Pete
That's why the site is called "Ministering Delusion." They assiduously minister to delusions of this kind!
By your logic, EVERY day of the week is evil, as they are all named after "Pagan" gods. Sun's Day, Moon's Day, Tyw's Day, Woden's Day, Thor's Day, Freya's Day, Saturn's Day.
I know January is named after a Roman god, not sure about the other months.
the crucifix is the symbol of Mithras, Roman god of soldiers. roman crosses like the one Jesus was crucified on wer shaped like a capital Y. infact, a lot of your hymns are also copies of hymns to Mithras (one in particular titled "Onward, Roman Soldiers" that i had to sing in chapel at my school as a kid, only they changed 'roman' to 'christian')
also, thats why christianity is so fond of military metaphors. a LOT of your religion is bastardized from mithraism.
sound familiar?
If using the name of a "deity" out of context still gives it power, why is there a commandment against using the lord's name in vain? Surely, if mentioning Nike shoes gives that goddess power over you, mentioning capital-G God, in whatever context, should do likewise? Unless, of course, this happens to be one of those mysterious ways in which the lord has decided not to work. Convenient, that.
Oh no, not unholy athletic equipment! Is nothing sacred????
Please go away before you embarrass yourself more.
That also means that anyone named Nick, Nicholas, Nikki, Nicole, Klaus, etc. is possessed by demons too. Asshat.
You know you're a fundie when you boycott a name-band clothing company not because they make their goods in sweat-shops and mistreat their workers, but because they take their name from a mythological greek diety.
And wasn't their a saint named Dionysius?:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Dionysius
You're afraid of SHOES now?!
What's the benefit of becoming a Christian if your god can't even protect you from the debbil's footwear?
Holy freaking fuck. With paranoia like this, you better spend the rest of your life hiding under your bed.
That's odd.
I always thought "Nike" meant "Victory". It comes from the legend of Pheidippides who ran to spread the news of a Greek victory and he ran so far in one go that it was all he could do to say "Nike!" (Victory) before he dropped dead.
That version kinda takes the whole oomph from the story...but yeah. I figured that's what "Nike" meant.
Since I didn't see anyone else mention it, I'll show where the name "Nike" comes from. The reason Nike is the goddess of victory is that her name comes from the Greek word "nika". "Nika" in Greek means "conquerer", or "victor". This is the reason why the Goddess of Victory , the GREEK Goddess at that, has the name "Nike". It's not fucking rocket science, it's basic llinguistics.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
To post a comment, you'll need to Sign in or Register . Making an account also allows you to claim credit for submitting quotes, and to vote on quotes and comments. You don't even need to give us your email address.
