Sort-of memes that are cracking you up at the moment

^ Is that a young Clarkson?

"Mosselman"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SwlqFc8RHA

Did lol^

what, no auto pause?

what, no auto pause?

Testers turn off the auto-pause, because the timekeeper doesn't pause his watch just because we're held up at a junction.

That's interesting. My comment came from from the observation that the word implies that the religion is based on worship of Mohammed rather than Allah, commonly thought to be slightly ignorant and / or offensive...

Well you could say the same thing about christianity.

Except that JC wasn't just a prophet.

I'd never thought of it that way, but I suppose the difference is that with the concept of the Trinity, Christ is God, so Christians do worship him, whereas Mohammed is seen as a prophet.

^^quite

See this? I would date this. Look at those motherfucking eyes. They're like inky brown pools of love. I don't even care what gender it is.

And look at the coquettish flipper to mouth. I love it.

I don't know, that tongue hanging out the mouth could point to neurological problems.

^^^^^^ Disability Discrimination Act

See this? I would date this.

Wouldn't date, but would go clubbing.

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Wouldn't date, but would go clubbing.

A baby seal walks into a club...

Half Man Half Biscuit - Seal Clubbing - YouTube

Baguette crap

No

It's Cif now:

Which in some languages is actually (still) pronounced "Jiff".
In Turkish, for example, a c is pronounced as a j.

csb

Jool story bro.

Confusing

Except that JC wasn't just a prophet.

I'd never thought of it that way, but I suppose the difference is that with the concept of the Trinity, Christ is God, so Christians do worship him, whereas Mohammed is seen as a prophet.

I have been geeking out on theology lately so ....

I would suggest that it is very much possible to be a Christian but not believe that Jesus was an incarnation of God. There is so much (highly variable) scripture sources for the bible. The selection that became the new testament canon is highly arbitrary. Mentioned as a collection first by Irenaeus in the year 200, Christians were following doctrine from various sources until the late 4th century, in 381 when Emperor Theodosius made it heresy to read other texts . The sources of the information in this "new testament" are pretty hazy. Luke even admits he is jumping on the bandwagon re-writing things in a manner he believes is superior right in his first chapter. Luke and Mathew are believed to have copied from Mark and a hypothetical mystery Q source. Some scholars think the Q source itself is not a single source.

There where about 200 original documents attributed to Jesus, like gospels and lists of sayings and teachings. Most were lost in their original form and re-written so many times in so many forms, that became contradictory and hard to tell what the original content was.

The oldest part of the 4 gospel bible, is Mark. Which is believed to be from about the year 60. There was however a Gospel of Thomas discovered in 1945 that is believed to be slightly earlier, around the year 50. And believed by leading scholars (christian and secular academics) to be original and separate from the synoptic bible (or the mystery Q Source), not inspired by its contents. And therefore before it.

The actual document they found with the Gospel of Thomas written down, is dated 340. So pretty early, which again boosts its credibility.

And to my actual point. The Gospel of Thomas contains no mention of Crucifixion, atonement, nothing about the trinity and clearly contradicts the idea of Jesus's divinity.

So going by one of the most (seemingly) historically accurate accounts. A Christian should not believe in the divinity of Jesus and the whole getting crucified for the worlds sins malarkey.

There is a huge amount of scripture to pick and choose from, really no reason why one should emphasise belief of the official new testament over other sources. The selection was put together because it best fitted the culture of the state & church at the time.

No surprise that early Christian texts display signs of embellishment and making it up as they went along, the church has been doing that ever since.