Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for August 13, 2011

Good thing you aren’t so religious that you took time to actually read “God’s Word” in the bible. There were a lot more than 10 of God’s laws (called the commandments). I’ve been to Catholic bible study groups and when I bring this up by reading the actual “laws” from the Old Testament, and everything grinds to a halt in the study groups. It always ends with astonishment…….especially about the ignorance of those present about what the bible actually says. I always get invited back …………….

my question is, “which one has to obey the commandment about not committing adultery?”

My three year old announced after Sunday school that she knew the ten commandments. “Thou shall do nothing!”

People who actually take the time to read the Old Testament are shocked when they realize what a psychopath God really is.

God spake unto me the other day and said that every ancient holy book on earth is baloney and the people who try to lead their lives by them are fools. That’s what he said. What? You don’t believe me? O ye of little faith!

Sitting on the dashboard of my car;

He don’t slip, and he don’t slide;

His little feet are magnetized. . . .

Well, I don’t care if it rains or freezes,

Long as I have my plastic Jesus

Riding on the dashboard of my car

Through all trials and tribulations,

We will travel every nation,

With my plastic Jesus I’ll go far.

Actually the ‘toon seems about parr for televangelists, and the “extremely devout” in all the “followers of the book”. As to all those LAWS, not just the “commandments”, anyone complaining about Islam or sharia law obviously hasn’t read the OT. Of course the bottom line in almost all those laws was, “give your wealth, or at least the best of it, to the priests (rabbis)”.

i subscribe to the golden rule – do unto others as you would have them do unto you. i prefer not to discuss religion because, even though they all have the same basic message of living with one’s neighbours in peace and treating each other kindly, they tend to get bogged down in minute differences of emphasis – causing no end of trouble.

That’s pretty impressive. I figured any atheist would have a problem someone who claimed to be a deity, and required his followers to accept him as lord and master.

what if they have the same five. just saying

Thanks for having an open mind.

Religion can be wonderful; it’s when it gets Organized, that it starts being about the Building Fund and the Organization, and loses sight of its roots in the soil.We aren’t human beings having a spiritual experience; we’re spiritual beings having a human experience! —Thomas Merton, IIRC