Comments on: Religion Is Weird

By: B.BarNavi

B.BarNavi — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 02:20:12 +0000

So glad putting a black cross on my forehead is not in my religion. Instead, I get to spend one week not eating any bread, cookies, or drinking any grain alcohol. Go figure.

By: I’m As Powerful As Ted Turner* | Oliver Willis

I’m As Powerful As Ted Turner* | Oliver Willis — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 05:11:31 +0000

[...] I get compared to the founder of CNN. The proud know-nothings at Newsbusters are up in arms over this post I made on Ash Wednesday. In the twisted mind of Ken Shepherd, the post was somehow mocking of the [...]

By: noodles

noodles — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:19:39 +0000

I think special clothing or garments are weirder. An invisible supernatural consciousness told me to wear goofy underwear (mormon), or wear a funny turban (sikh), or wear a headscarf (islam), or wear a wig if you are married (jewish).

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:15:13 +0000

A shout-out to the ugly side of things:

SCENE: Late Middle Ages

Two men are talking in front of a stake prepared for execution.

FIRST MAN: What is going on? Who is being executed.

SECOND MAN: I myself saw to the condemnation of the witch! She heard supernatural voices and did what they told her to do.

FIRST MAN: So why are you burning her at the stake.

SECOND MAN: God told me to.

By: Duros62

Duros62 — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:02:56 +0000

Rituals create community. It’s a form of comfort.

Yeah, I guess. So is hot chocolate and chicken soup.

By: Southern Quaker

Southern Quaker — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:48:40 +0000

Rituals create community. It’s a form of comfort.

By: Jack J.

Jack J. — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:26:14 +0000

alas, being human definitely has it’s downside.

By: Parthenon

Parthenon — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:08:48 +0000

I’m not all that religious, but secular cosmology’s pretty weird too. Supposedly, according to closed-universe geometry, if you go far enough in one direction, you’ll end up back where you started. You tell me there’s nothing religious about believing we live in a pacman universe.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:36:08 +0000

Yes we are! Participated in an Ash Wednesday service myself last night.

For we are dust, and to dust we shall return.

By: fafaroo

fafaroo — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:41:21 +0000

Certainly it’s no weirder than this:
http://www.nypost.com/photos/galleries/sports/pp_20090201_super_bowl_fans/photo04.jpg

By: roo roo

roo roo — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:57:09 +0000

Saw one on pundit TV today. Very freaking weird. I got it. You’re devout. Show-offs.

By: Wareq

Wareq — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 02:06:29 +0000

Or, if you live around a large Indian community, you can see the Hindu analogue almost every week.

By: ed

ed — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 01:07:22 +0000

Weirder than Bunnypants saying that God told him to invade Iraq?

By: Duros62

Duros62 — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:42:02 +0000

“Hey buddy, you got a little schmootz right there.”

By: lou baye

lou baye — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:34:44 +0000

Being from OK, I’d never seen this before. Now I go to school in St. Louis and was seriously confused until the guy I sit next to looked up Ash Wednesday on Wikipedia. I got used to it, but walking by the neighborhood Catholic school on my way home when school had just ended and seeing a group of kids and their parents with ash smeared on their heads was still weird.