Tim Tebow Will Speak at Dallas Megachurch of Controversial Pastor Robert Jeffress
Tim Tebow will be appearing at a 11,000 member church in the Dallas area on April 28th, soon after it opens a new $130 million campus. Robert Jeffress, the pastor, has been outspoken in his criticism of various groups, as well as both President Obama and presidential candidate Mitt Romney. He has spoken out agains homosexuality (though he did say recently that there may be a genetic basis). He has also equated Islam with pedophilia.
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February 18th, 2013 at 1:56 PM
Who cares? More dunks please!
February 18th, 2013 at 1:57 PM
Mario Cristobal to Bama. I likes it.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:00 PM
First Baptist Church? Reminds me of this.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:00 PM
Oh for fucks sake. Seriously? God dammit, Saban. God fucking dammit.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:00 PM
Also, Timmy just wants to begin his apprenticeship and prepare for how he’s going to make hundred of millions of dollars in the coming years.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:00 PM
Typical Baylor grad.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:01 PM
Who cares? More dunks please!
I bet BigLead Corporate Offices are seriously low on toilet paper and kleenex after last night’s all star game.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:01 PM
Cool. Can’t wait to hear what he has to say.
First link is “page not found”, by the way.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:04 PM
Holy hell. Church I worked at in high school* did the same thing a year ago for around 10 million. Don’t want to know how they got all of that money.
*note: I was a far different person 8 years ago. I’ve pretty much turned to the dark side.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:05 PM
Good luck getting him to pass the collection plate.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:05 PM
I can head Jeffress saying this in his stupid voice, too. That’s what makes it for me.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:06 PM
Rich people like to write things off on those taxes. When you let them write off cult memberships this is what you get.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:06 PM
Holy hell. Church I worked at in high school* did the same thing a year ago for around 10 million. Don’t want to know how they got all of that money.
*note: I was a far different person 8 years ago. I’ve pretty much turned to the dark side.
You should and post this into Reddit. You’ll get major street cred. Especially if you drop in a Richard Dawkins quote.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:07 PM
“Uninformed, I am not,” Jeffress said in his sermon on Sunday as a response.
Thanks Yoda.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:07 PM
Yes! A religion post!
February 18th, 2013 at 2:08 PM
Oh and I see your First Baptist Church of Dallas and raise you Lakewood Church of Houston and it’s 16,000 seat ‘sanctuary‘.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:10 PM
Someone, I think in todays Roundup, recommended the Wright Thompson piece on Jordan. I never would have clicked on it otherwise so whoever it was, thank you.
If you are north of 40 years old as I am you will find this to be the best read in a long while. It reminded me of something from SI in the glory days when I was a teen.
Here is one quote that says it all if mid life isn’t agreeing with you;
“The chasm between what his mind wants and what his body can give grows every year.”
Yep. Truth.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:10 PM
T.D. Jakes has a big one in Dallas as well, I believe. Texas loves them some mega churches it seems.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:10 PM
tebow has done his part to fade from sports forums. can’t we do ours?
February 18th, 2013 at 2:11 PM
I have a black friend!! I can’t be racist!!
February 18th, 2013 at 2:12 PM
T.D. Jakes has a big one in Dallas as well, I believe. Texas loves them some mega churches it seems.
Yes we do apparently. It still bothers me to see Lakewood Church on TV and realize that that is where the Rockets won both their titles.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:12 PM
Here is one quote that says it all if mid life isn’t agreeing with you;
“The chasm between what his mind wants and what his body can give grows every year.”
Yep. Truth.
well, other than not being able to get it up 17 times a day, i’m just fine at 46. that quote applies to people who try to do athletic things like they did when in 20s and 30s, right?
February 18th, 2013 at 2:12 PM
So are we saying that because Tebow is speaking at this church, that necessarily means that he agrees with everything the pastor is saying?
February 18th, 2013 at 2:13 PM
I go to a big church. Its like 1500 seats, stadium seating, but the people there are cool. Lots of bikers, people wearing no sleeves, tatoos.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:13 PM
Serious as cancer, rhythm is a dancer.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:15 PM
Always wondered what cool looked like.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:16 PM
Lots of bikers, people wearing no sleeves, tatoos.
they do sound cool
in cape cod there is a Our Lady of the Highway. cracked me up
February 18th, 2013 at 2:16 PM
nods at ritty
February 18th, 2013 at 2:17 PM
everyone else playing for second place. Cristobal is a GREAT coach
February 18th, 2013 at 2:17 PM
I suspect he does for the most part, but who knows about this particular issue. But when you associate with people who say crazy things on the reg, you’re going to be viewed through a prism in which they’re also viewed.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:17 PM
megachurches and megachurch pastors tend to do more harm than good to public image of Christians
February 18th, 2013 at 2:18 PM
Hopefully he’ll be gone in a year or two and back as an HC, but damn…Saban is a war machine at this point.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:18 PM
Mario Cristobal to Bama. I likes it.
everyone else playing for second place. Cristobal is a GREAT coach
heir apparent
February 18th, 2013 at 2:18 PM
Yeah, fuck Bama.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:18 PM
God damn America!
February 18th, 2013 at 2:19 PM
Probably so.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:19 PM
T.Y. Hilton can thank Mario Cristobal for helping him becoming a good NFL player
February 18th, 2013 at 2:20 PM
Well played.
That’s Kirby Smart, though as crazy as it sounds, if Kirby were offered the UGA job while being offered the Bama job I think he might actually take the UGA job. He’s been waiting for Richt to get shitcanned for 5 years now.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:20 PM
megachurches and megachurch pastors tend to do more harm than good to public image of Christians
i think they’re just in the mix. boy touching scandals are much worse. then there’s creationism and politicians who use religion as a hammer.
and notre dame
February 18th, 2013 at 2:21 PM
Well played. Forgot that Frank Marshall Davis character though.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:21 PM
Exactly, though. That’s my point. Obama certainly isn’t some radical terrorist, but if you listened to his critics they made him out to be just that.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:22 PM
Curious to know if you felt this way when there was the big to-do about Obama’s pastor?
February 18th, 2013 at 2:23 PM
yes, agreed.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:23 PM
Dude is on FIYAH!!!
February 18th, 2013 at 2:25 PM
Good luck getting him to pass the collection plate.
i will not let this gem go unnoticed.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:28 PM
Mormonism gets a bad rap because it’s new enough to the point that people can more easily prove that it’s bullshit…the time of Jesus however wasn’t so good with the recorded history so people took those stories at face value and 2,000 years later you can’t be voted POTUS if you’re not Christian
February 18th, 2013 at 2:28 PM
Good luck getting him to pass the collection plate.
i will not let this gem go unnoticed.
i take out my anger at the world by not acknowledging funny comments
February 18th, 2013 at 2:29 PM
Mormonism and last night’s Downton Abbey episode…SOME BULLSHIT
/nods at Butters, Banders, and sportsgal
February 18th, 2013 at 2:29 PM
Mormonism gets a bad rap because it’s new enough to the point that people can more easily prove that it’s bullshit…the time of Jesus however wasn’t so good with the recorded history so people took those stories at face value and 2,000 years later you can’t be voted POTUS if you’re not Christian
* or just saying you’re Christian
February 18th, 2013 at 2:30 PM
Totally agree. It’s backed into a corner due to coming last among the other religions.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:30 PM
I’ll admit, it’s over my head.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:31 PM
Thank you. I was pretty proud of it.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:31 PM
Morminsim gets a bad rap because they took over Utah
February 18th, 2013 at 2:31 PM
Mormonism is just as insane as Christianity, the latter has just had a lot more time to germinate. They’re all just cults.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:31 PM
Scientology is driving it into acceptance.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:32 PM
Really? I mean, it seems to me that Obama is a pretty religious dude, yet those on the Right always try and say he isn’t. Do you think he’s just saying he’s a Christian? To be honest I’d like him even more if he came out and said, “yeah…I’m not really into all that, but y’all are so I said what the hell.”
February 18th, 2013 at 2:32 PM
Also, Eldorado, TX.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:33 PM
Haha you’re so sore about it. Loser’s walk, bitch.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:33 PM
Scientology made the mistake of not piggy backing on Jesus. That’s the key for new religions. You can’t go all sci-fi on us without any Jesus action at some point. That’s just rude.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:33 PM
I was raised in a very religious household and still am to a degree, but I’ve never quite understood mega-churches.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:34 PM
Goddamn apostrophe.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:34 PM
Obama could nail himself to a cross every Easter weekend and the right would still claim he’s a Muslim phony.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:35 PM
What is that movie called with Phillip c. Hoffman about scientology?
February 18th, 2013 at 2:35 PM
I don’t know why it bothers me that the leaders make so much money. It just seems sacrilegious. Take Creflo Dollar, for example. I mean…dude drives a Bentley and has a sweet condo in NYC when he isn’t living in some mansion in Atlanta. Just seems off when you’re a religious figure.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:35 PM
Fucking Boring: The Movie
February 18th, 2013 at 2:36 PM
The Master.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:36 PM
The Master, and it’s fucking awful.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:36 PM
It still plays.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:36 PM
Is it worth a free illegal watch?
February 18th, 2013 at 2:36 PM
“Typical, just hanging there not doing anywork. You Obamabots can record it on your free phones though.”
February 18th, 2013 at 2:37 PM
It’s the hypocrisy. You use religion to get rich, and you’re a scumbag.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:37 PM
I don’t know. I don’t really know enough about Obama specifically to comment. But going forward, church attendance for most all politicians will be viewed as political unless I’m convinced otherwise.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:38 PM
I was raised in a very religious household and still am to a degree,
you live at home?
February 18th, 2013 at 2:38 PM
130 million campus is astounding. I’d love somebody to tear through their non-profit tax/govt filings
February 18th, 2013 at 2:38 PM
No. It’s gorgeously shot but utterly pointless in every regard. This new trend of movies not needing “plots” or “reasons for existence” grows tiresome.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:38 PM
What? And I don’t just mean the apostrophe.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:39 PM
Mega-churches are, in modern times, what the Pharisees were in Jesus’ times.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:39 PM
Not in the South. They take that shit seriously. I do agree that a Mass liberal, for example, will have to make sure not to miss too many services at least two years out or he’ll be hammered for it. I’d like to live in a world where the person running for president could be agnostic and it wouldn’t be a big deal.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:40 PM
It’s the hypocrisy. You use religion to get rich, and you’re a scumbag.
where have you gone, st. francis of assissi? a nation turns its lonely eyes to you
February 18th, 2013 at 2:40 PM
The free phones line really brought it home.
Although, we all know Obama inherited that cross from Dubya, anyway.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:40 PM
Notice how I said agnostic and not atheistic. I think atheists are just like religious people. They believe in something that cannot be proven, though they have a bit more evidence on their side.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:41 PM
20 years…religion is doing worse than baseball.
/both still making money though
February 18th, 2013 at 2:41 PM
FIU focked this one up royally. I’ve watched a handful of games this cause I was betting on them, but seriously, he was getting things turned around. They must be looking for a spawn of a famous football coach to turn things around, like their basketball team.
/heard Jay Paterno is available
//in between peddling his book
February 18th, 2013 at 2:41 PM
I don’t give one shit if a presidential candidate, congressional leader, athlete, co-worker or family member has religion. No one else should, either. Your religion has zero bearing on the type of president you’d make. Strict adherence to any belief system is far more troubling to me.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:42 PM
Yeah well, the South is a different beast when it comes to that. But even in the South, somebody with political ambitions are going to affiliate with a politically ambitious church as soon as possible, even if that just means it’s the biggest church in town.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:42 PM
Disagree. Athiesm is not a belief.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:43 PM
Not exactly. Religious people attend religious services. Atheists don’t.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:43 PM
ritty I took that as a shot at Obama not being a real Christian.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:43 PM
Well, they go to work every day. Proof enough that there is no god.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:44 PM
Of course you think this.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:44 PM
Queefer’s list of things he enjoys
February 18th, 2013 at 2:45 PM
It’s a belief that god doesn’t exist, no?
Can you be religious without going to service, or does that make you spiritual?
/honestly asking
February 18th, 2013 at 2:45 PM
Went to the well one too many times, my friend.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:46 PM
as always when religion is discussed, a shirt i own
February 18th, 2013 at 2:46 PM
Atheists are in for a real eye opener when they pass from this world
February 18th, 2013 at 2:46 PM
“Christmas and Easter” massgoers represent 80 percent of all Catholics.
/maybe
February 18th, 2013 at 2:47 PM
It’s more of a position.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:47 PM
But how do you know? This is my problem with religious folk. They are so certain of something that, by its very nature, is uncertain. That arrogance drives me nuts.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:48 PM
Atheism means you lack belief. Semantics.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:48 PM
Fine then how’s about this: the argument of “atheists are just the same as theists because of one belief” is intellectually lazy and shows a basic misunderstanding of both logic and the concept of atheism itself.
Better?
February 18th, 2013 at 2:48 PM
How about all of the people that believe in a different god from yours? You know about 6 billion people? Boy are they fucked.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:48 PM
Oh. Nah. I wouldn’t make that accusation. My comment was about politicians in general, not necessarily anyone specifically. But nice use of “losers walk.” I need to use that line more.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:49 PM
Agreed. The counter point would be that he is essentially the CEO of a huge money-making corporation and deserves a big salary. However, I can’t imagine any pastor I’ve ever known who would feel right about such excess.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:49 PM
I could use a drink right now so this sounds okay with me.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:49 PM
I guess I don’t know too many atheists now that I think about it. Maybe I should ask them what it means to them.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:49 PM
Irony.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:50 PM
I think that’s more opinion and depends on the person, but I usually associate “religious” with someone who attends service regularly (the word “religiously” comes to mind). Also, I’m sure there are many atheists who consider themselves spiritual. To each his/her own, really.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:51 PM
Also agnosticism is straight up chicken shit.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:51 PM
I’ll grant you that. As I said, I don’t know many atheists (if any, the more I think about it) so I probably shouldn’t speak to what they do or don’t think. Let’s just agree that Phish is fucking terrible.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:52 PM
All I know is that if the “right answer” is being spiritual but not religious then heaven is going to be full of nothing but irritating 23 year old white girls with online dating profiles.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:52 PM
we are biodegradable, so we’re talking souls here, right?
February 18th, 2013 at 2:52 PM
The reverse argument would be: Christians aren’t in for a real eye opener because there is no afterlife and you’re, y’know, dead.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:53 PM
I bubbled in the “somewhat agree” after looking at the “strongly agree”.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:53 PM
Husker, I don’t know , but that’s part of my faith. I do believe their is higher being, God that drives this crazy world. I don’t care if your Christian, Jewish, Muslim, etc, you got to have belief that you’ve got answer for your time on this Earth. What did you do to make it better place, did you help others, did you respect others, etc? I do know having discussions in religion often end in futility, unless you can come to common respect of each others point of view
February 18th, 2013 at 2:53 PM
Now this is lazy. I honestly don’t know. Neither do you or does the person who believes in another god. So you can puff your chest out and scream, “pick a side!,” but that would be silly.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:54 PM
Also agnosticism is straight up chicken shit.
i’m indifferent to it
/atheism is too agressive
February 18th, 2013 at 2:54 PM
“Whether you’re Christian, Jewish, or miscellaneous.”
“Hey they are eight hundred million of us!”
“That’s super.”
February 18th, 2013 at 2:54 PM
What does this have to do with a deity?
February 18th, 2013 at 2:55 PM
But why do you need to be religious? Is being an honest person who goes good deeds, raises a good family and is a good citizen not enough?
February 18th, 2013 at 2:55 PM
According to the bible, no.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:56 PM
Not being sure about there being a God (at least in the Abrahamic sense of God) is the same as not thinking there is a god, if there is some final judgment with the world’s bigger ledger, it comes down to belief or not, and not being sure doesn’t cut it for those cherubic fucks.
It’s Pascal’s Wager but refusing to play and still losing.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:56 PM
…and yet every time someone says Richt should have called a timeout, you jump down their throat.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:57 PM
buzz kill mcbama
February 18th, 2013 at 2:57 PM
I’m not entirely certain there isn’t/wasn’t some greater power out there in the universe, but to think it’s listening to us and influencing our lives because we go to a building every Sunday listen to a white male tell us how much better we are than women, minorities and gays seems odd.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:58 PM
Well there was some evidence (a good bit, actually) that saying that is stupid.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:58 PM
I don’t watch Family Guy, let alone go to someone else’s house to do it.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:58 PM
I don’t believe that God exists. I guess that makes me an atheist. I’m certainly not going to argue with anyone about it or try to convince anyone.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:59 PM
I think we can all agree though that Tebow’s future is with stuff like this, making speeches to the kind of people who buy desktop calendars, instead of in football.
February 18th, 2013 at 2:59 PM
Exactly.
/not sure what point I am trying to make, but I think you just admitted there is no God.
February 18th, 2013 at 3:00 PM
Also I think we can agree that Ricky Gervais and Bill Maher aren’t helping anything.
February 18th, 2013 at 3:00 PM
I suppose it’s somewhat of a gamble, but to me I’ll take treating people (non Auburn category) well, doing good things and raising a good family as enough. If that’s not enough, but the dude who rapes/murders but then is born again is enough, than so be it.
February 18th, 2013 at 3:00 PM
If one were to comprise a list of religion pros and cons, is there any argument to be made that the pros (charity, structure, sense of community) outweigh the cons (centuries long wars, murder, death, bigotry, backward thinking, aversion to science, aversion to change, strict adherence to doctrine)?
February 18th, 2013 at 3:01 PM
If I am gifted a calendar by a supplier, is it then OK to use? I didn’t realize these things had a stigma.
February 18th, 2013 at 3:01 PM
Are we talking atheist atheism, or S.E. Cupp atheism, when you wear atheism as a beard so it makes you seem more credible when defending fervent religious zealotry?
February 18th, 2013 at 3:01 PM
There sure as hell wasn’t one in the Ga Dome that night. That I can guarantee.
/sobs
February 18th, 2013 at 3:03 PM
I like Maher’s show and think he occasionally makes some good points about religion. But his endless quest to tie all the world’s social and political problems back to religion is exasperating. He doesn’t know when to stop and it dilutes his message.
February 18th, 2013 at 3:03 PM
All those wars and murders kept the population down?
February 18th, 2013 at 3:04 PM
Religion pro: guarantees Joe Lieberman could never be president.
February 18th, 2013 at 3:04 PM
Exactly…I have a pretty good feeling that if J-Bone meets me up in heaven, he’s just going to go “Babar, what the fuck man? You knucklehead…get in here…we’re getting a game of pickup hoops in 5. Don’t pass it to Hitler…he’s terrible. I know, I know…but he repented right before he killed himself.”
February 18th, 2013 at 3:04 PM
Totally agree with this. His show is the best political show on TV, but he does try and pigeon hole every single issue back to religion.
February 18th, 2013 at 3:04 PM
you got to have belief that you’ve got answer for your time on this Earth. What did you do to make it better place, did you help others, did you respect others, etc?
you don’t have to, but these are nice ways to think about life, and to conduct yourself. if it is all just science, then there’s no way to scare your kids to act better. then we get back to doing good for its own reward….as it should be
February 18th, 2013 at 3:04 PM
Likes where your head is at.
February 18th, 2013 at 3:06 PM
Such a great line.
February 18th, 2013 at 3:07 PM
Right? Capitalism is more at fault than religion.
February 18th, 2013 at 3:08 PM
S.E. Cupp
i don’t know. i don’t actually listen to her
February 18th, 2013 at 3:08 PM
I am agnostic and really love to pile on both theists and atheists however I am pretty sure that without religion there’s a very good chance our civilization would have evolved in a less satisfactory and advanced manner than it did.
Religion is not perfect but it played a large role in group selection by curbing our tendency to only do things that was best for us and people that shared our genetic material. A group that only acts in this way has no chance against one were the unit of survival was closer to the whole than the individual all things being equal.
Now is this perfect no? Religion has actually been quite detrimental to many a people however the point is that all other alternatives I believe are much worse big picture wise.
For us to be here intelligently arguing about religion, religion had to exist to allow civilized society to flourish in key points in our development where law enforcement or even our own sense of right and wrong wasn’t advanced enough to foster the survival of the complex societies we have today.
February 18th, 2013 at 3:08 PM
In today’s world? Depends on what you think the cause of terrorism is.
February 18th, 2013 at 3:09 PM
MikeNYC signal has been lit.
February 18th, 2013 at 3:09 PM
She can totally get it. I wouldn’t want her to say a word because I’d want to choke her, but she’s hot.
February 18th, 2013 at 3:10 PM
Also I think we can agree that Ricky Gervais and Bill Maher aren’t helping anything.
idk, i think gervais helps me laugh when he does that gay-animal bit in his standup show
February 18th, 2013 at 3:11 PM
got_em_looking is a most underutilized commenter on here. Always well reasoned guy, whether I agree or not.
I agree with this in part…but there were a lot of advancements that were prevented by religion as well.
February 18th, 2013 at 3:11 PM
The continuation of making Die Hard movies
February 18th, 2013 at 3:11 PM
Nailed it.
February 18th, 2013 at 3:13 PM
This slayed me.
February 18th, 2013 at 3:14 PM
All those wars and murders kept the population down?
This is much better than allowing women to take the pill.
February 18th, 2013 at 3:14 PM
Capitalism is more at fault than religion.
what about capitaligion? lotsa rich born agains, conservatives, right wingers. the two are a winning combo
/agnostic and middle class
February 18th, 2013 at 3:14 PM
If there is a god, he’s at best a chronic underachiever and at worst a murderous scumbag.
February 18th, 2013 at 3:16 PM
If there is a god, he’s at best a chronic underachiever and at worst a murderous scumbag.
Murderous scumbag is a bit much, but still, I like the cut of your jib.
February 18th, 2013 at 3:16 PM
This is true for those who believe in the omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent god. For those that believe that is the god that exists, they have to be disappointed. Too many kids getting cancer for that shit to fly.
February 18th, 2013 at 3:17 PM
Your post was excellent overall, and this is the key takeaway. To me, religion is a societal vestigial tail, an entity that served its purpose and now has no worthwhile function.
February 18th, 2013 at 3:17 PM
I predict that by the end of the 2013 football season, the leading cause of terrorism in Louisiana will be Cam Cameron’s football follies.
February 18th, 2013 at 3:20 PM
to me agnostic means ‘i don’t really care’ if there is a god or not. i do not like being judged, having to pass muster, which is why i never considered the greek system. if treating others well isn;t enough to be a member of the ‘better’ supernatural club, i’m good in purgatory
i like discussing spirituality and deities, and am certainly open to there being a higher power, but i prefer to believe that our decisions and actions have far more to do with our lives than puppet strings or return on prayer investment
in short, i believe in people power
February 18th, 2013 at 3:21 PM
Another reason to go atheist.
February 18th, 2013 at 3:21 PM
Nada you get to feel my pain from the Dolphins from the 2007 season. Good luck.
February 18th, 2013 at 3:22 PM
Gravity has destroyed more than any bomb ever created in that sense it might have prevented many advancements however without gravity its difficult to imagine any basis to advance from.
I just don’t think a no religion option was ever available to us if we intended to be where we are today. There’s a reason why you never see a family of Bonobos in church.
Thanks you sir
/picks up a towel and goes back to end of the bench.
February 18th, 2013 at 3:24 PM
You lost me here.
February 18th, 2013 at 3:24 PM
If there were apes in church – especially if they were wearing suits – I’d be changing my tune real fast.
February 18th, 2013 at 3:28 PM
I had to google bonobos.
February 18th, 2013 at 3:34 PM
Bonobos are god’s horny henchmen
February 18th, 2013 at 3:34 PM
/clicks link
//closes office door
February 18th, 2013 at 3:38 PM
I like your thinking
February 18th, 2013 at 4:10 PM
Came in too late would give the perspective of someone raised a Jehovah’s Witness, checked out and came back.
February 18th, 2013 at 4:13 PM
lol