Matti Karel

Response and the top ten things they wont tell you in Sunday School

First I would like to respond to a comment about why I had so many posts in such a short time. - I have moved my last blog from there to here due to a larger and more communicative audience. This site also gives me more of an ability to connect to people who I may possibly be able to have a conversation with someday. Last nigth I worked. I work the graveyard shift. I do not recommend this unless you are crazy. I came home and delved into my trust "little book of bad taste" and decided to wrestle with my ideas on religion. i was born into a christian family and have my own feelings which I will not go into here. I find that religion, politics, and family and the three things you can express your opinion about and be automatically hated just for viewing how you feel. I dont know why it is these things that seem to bring out the storngest emotions when it seems like they are some of the things that we spend the least time concerning ourselves with. I find that I take such things for granted and the amounts of thought I spend on them arent unsually spent on my own soul searchings, they are on the things I view in others, both negative and positive. Maybe it is because I am young, unmarried, and busy all the time with the necessary evils of work and housework. Now i am rambling. I guessthis does tie into my own views of absurdity of some religious traditions. These have to do with some of the oddities of the catholic religion's history: NOTE: THIS IS NOT AN ATTACK ON BELIEFS! this is just some of the more hilarious additives of christianity, if you cant laugh at this stuff, get out of this blog. 10 facts about church you are least likely to hear in Sunday School: - The book of Esther is the only book in the bible which neglets to mention God. - Although the Church frowned on adultery from the beginning it didnt get around to banning sex with animals until the council of Ankara in 314 Ad - The modern confessional box was invented in the Middle Ages to help prevent women from being sexually assulted by priests. - The early christian church held that the Virgin Mary was impregnated through her ear. Paranoia about aural sex was so widespread that the naked ear was considered sexually explicit; hence the fashion for tight fitting wimples. - The Catholic Church accepts cannibalism as a jutifiable means of saving one's life. - Onan the son of Judah "spilled his seed" in the old testement (Genesis 38:8-10) thus becoming the Bible's sole masturbator. The passage is basis for the Church's unreserved comdemantion of masturbation for centuries and gave rise to the expression Onanism- a term for self- abuse which was still popular in Victorian times. - The Old Testament book Ecclesiasticus recommends clearing the stomach by throwing up before or during a big meal to make room for more food. - The Bible was full of lepers. It was written at a time when any skin defect, even a bad case of acne , was likely to get people branded as a leper and shunned by society. - In the 12th and 13th centuries the Church declared a holy war on cats because they were ambassadors of the devil. After two centuries of persecution the cat population in Europe was decimated, and there followed an explosion in the rat population , bringing with it the plague. The Catholic Church duly reversed its position on cats, and issued a new proclaimation that anyone caught abusing a cat would be excommunicated. - At one time you could be excommunicated for wearing a wig.

Posted at 09:11AM Jun 26, 2007 by Matti M Karel in General  |  Comments[3]