Strange Things From Spirituality/religion/beliefs

[phee]

I was reading Odims signature line, and it got me thinking of these kinds of things.

Do you know any quotes, events, instances, practices, etc.... from the history of the worlds religions that you find odd or interesting?

Post them here...

NOT INTEANDED AS AN ANTI RELIGION THREAD, JUST POINTS OF INTEREST!!!

I will start with some:

From the Qu'ran:

Yawning is from Satan (Volume 4, Book 54, Number 509) - The Prophet said, "Yawning is from Satan and if anyone of you yawns, he should check his yawning as much as possible, for if anyone of you (during the act of yawning) should say: 'Ha', Satan will laugh at him."

Satan peed in the ear of a man (Volume 4, Book 54, Number 492) - It was mentioned before the Prophet that there was a man who slept the night till morning (after sunrise). The Prophet said, "He is a man in whose ears Satan had urinated."

From the Bible:

Exodus 4:24-25 NASB

Now it came about at the lodging place on the way that the LORD met him and sought to put him to death. Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son’s foreskin and threw it at Moses’ feet, and she said, “You are indeed a bridegroom of blood to me.”

Pagan Quote:

“The old Irish when immersing a babe at baptism left out the right arm so that it would remain pagan for good fighting”

[ManicQueen]

It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

-Mark Twain

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

"If you're following the news, you know that the major religions differ in their interpretation of the holy books. For example, one way to interpret God's will is that you should love your neighbor. An alternate reading of the holy books might lead you to rig a donkey cart with small mortar rockets and aim it at a hotel full of infidels. In summary, po-tay-to, poh-tah-to. Religions are very flexible." — From Scott Adams' Holiday Thoughts, 2003.

[Msterbeau]

The Simpson's at Thanksgiving. Bart is saying grace:

"God, we made this stuff, so thanks for nothing..."

Sorry. That's all that came to mind at the moment.

[phee]

"If you're following the news, you know that the major religions differ in their interpretation of the holy books. For example, one way to interpret God's will is that you should love your neighbor. An alternate reading of the holy books might lead you to rig a donkey cart with small mortar rockets and aim it at a hotel full of infidels. In summary, po-tay-to, poh-tah-to. Religions are very flexible." — From Scott Adams' Holiday Thoughts, 2003.

Like this one!

[Steven]

From the Bible:

Exodus 4:24-25 NASB

Now it came about at the lodging place on the way that the LORD met him and sought to put him to death. Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son’s foreskin and threw it at Moses’ feet, and she said, “You are indeed a bridegroom of blood to me.”

if you consider this passage it goes against the grain of women taking a backseat to men in terms of importance.

Moses and the nation of Israel had been commanded to consecrate themselves as seperate from the pagan nations by cutting their pee pee's in an act of circumcision.

and they did. except Moses did not want to cut his litlel boys pee pee, a tragic leadership error exibiting a double standard.

it was Moses' wife who obeyed YHWH and saved Moses life by interceding for him in his weakness. The accoutn as it is written elevates her postion, somethign rarely done in biblical times and in biblical texts.

[phee]

Some more

Bible

SLAVERY (part 14), PAUL - Ephesians 6:5 (NIV)

"Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ."

My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron.

-Eliza Dushku

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

"All ... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest. Test each sect by its best or its worst as you will, by its high-water mark of virtue or its low-water mark of vice. But falsehood begins when you measure the ebb of any other religion against the flood-tide of your own. There is a noble and a base side to every history." - Thomas Wentworth Higginson

[phee]

John Lennon Proclaims Beatles "More Popular Than Jesus" (March 4, 1966)

[phee]

"Reason should be destroyed in all Christians."

— Martin Luther

"Drive them [Jews] like mad dogs from our land... let not one of them live..."

— Martin Luther

[phee]

"We believe democracy is an Atheist call that idolizes human beings."

— manifesto of Ansar al-Sunnah (Iraq terrorist group)

[phee]

"God gave us the earth. We have dominion over the plants, the animals, the trees. God said, 'Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It's yours.'"

— Ann Coulter, on Hannity & Colmes, 6/20/01

[ManicQueen]

I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.

-Stephen F Roberts

[odims_sphere]

I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.

-Stephen F Roberts

OOhhh that is a good one!

[ManicQueen]

If I was a religious person, I would consider creationism nothing less than blasphemy. Do its adherents imagine that God is a cosmic hoaxer who has created that whole vast fossil record for the sole purpose of misleading mankind?

-Arthur C. Clarke

[phee]

"Christians and Jews don't believe in Allah or Brahma. Hindus don't believe in Yahweh or Allah. Muslims don't believe in Brahma or Yahweh. Atheists agree with all of them."

— Mark Thomas

[phee]

"When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself."

— Peter O’Toole (1932- )

[phee]

"Suppose we've chosen the wrong god? Every time we go to church, we're just making him madder and madder."

— Homer J. Simpson

[ManicQueen]

I believe there is an important distinction to be made between religion and spirituality. Religion I take to be concerned with belief in the claims to salvation of one faith tradition or another--an aspect of which is acceptance of some form of meta-physical or philosophical reality, including perhaps an idea of heaven or hell. Connected with this are religious teachings or dogma, ritual, prayers and so on. Spirituality I take to be concerned with those qualities of the human spirit--such as love and compassion, patience, tolerance, forgiveness, contentment, a sense of responsibility, a sense of harmony, which bring happiness to both self and others.

-His Holiness the Dalai Lama

[phee]

I believe there is an important distinction to be made between religion and spirituality. Religion I take to be concerned with belief in the claims to salvation of one faith tradition or another--an aspect of which is acceptance of some form of meta-physical or philosophical reality, including perhaps an idea of heaven or hell. Connected with this are religious teachings or dogma, ritual, prayers and so on. Spirituality I take to be concerned with those qualities of the human spirit--such as love and compassion, patience, tolerance, forgiveness, contentment, a sense of responsibility, a sense of harmony, which bring happiness to both self and others.

-His Holiness the Dalai Lama

That doesn't seem that strange.... at least to me....

[ManicQueen]

That doesn't seem that strange.... at least to me....

Yeah, you're right.. my bad.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

-Isaac Asimov

[phee]

From the Penecostal History

Parham was so enthused that he said missionaries would go to the ends of the earth and would not have to learn the languages. In fact, most of the early Pentecostals believed this. It didn't work that way, though. When A.G. Garr traveled to India and attempted to speak to the people in supernatural tongues, he quickly found that he could not communicate.

[jadnifer]

"Christians and Jews don't believe in Allah or Brahma. Hindus don't believe in Yahweh or Allah. Muslims don't believe in Brahma or Yahweh. Atheists agree with all of them."

— Mark Thomas

He has a point I suppose

[jadnifer]

"When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself."

— Peter O’Toole (1932- )

hahahahaha!

[phee]

heh