October 2006 Screwball Nominations

[Christy]

Here's the website that Steve Carr was talking about: http://christiancadre.blogspot.com/2...-ignoring.html

[aikidoka]

Here's the website that Steve Carr was talking about: http://christiancadre.blogspot.com/2...-ignoring.html

I like the Christiancadre site. That challenge (ie dont care about context) and Steve Carr's responses

[jpholding]

http://debunkingchristianity.blogspo...its-cover.html

Award to dagoodS, one of Doubting John's useful idiots, for complaining that Proverbs is not the Magic Happy Fun Bible.

[Cynic Sage]

More xtian t-shirts, these ones form Kerruso clothing co.:

http://www.kerusso.com/

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Guy in marketing: Hey! I know how we can make T-shirts that bring Glory to God. Let's compare the Saving Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ with soft-drink logos.

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AMERICA! **** YEAH!

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"Jesus" is the name of her mexican gardener.

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What? You'd expect someone to actually buy these sober?

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Get exploited by the love of Christ.

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Wow, that'll make folks wanna convert.

[JSDileo]

I want to give an anti-screwball award to the people who translated the Amplified Bible, for their consistently credible translations. I think their translation of 2 Kings 2:23-24 illustrates this perfectly, mainly because they 1). Understood that these boys were accountable and 2). Understood that they were challenging Elisha's honor and insulting him based off of his grief for Elijah's leaving the Earth:

2 Kings 2:23-24 (Amplified Bible)
Amplified Bible (AMP)

23He went up from Jericho to Bethel. On the way, [a]young [maturing and accountable] boys came out of the city and mocked him and said to him, Go up [in a whirlwind], you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!

24And he turned around and looked at them and called a curse down on them in the name of the Lord. And two she-bears came out of the woods and ripped up forty-two of the boys.

Footnotes:

1. 2 Kings 2:23 This incident has long been misunderstood because the Hebrew word "naar" was translated "little boys." That these characteristic juvenile delinquents were old enough to be fully accountable is obvious from the use of the word elsewhere. For example, it was used by David of his son Solomon and translated "young and inexperienced," when Solomon was a father (I Chron. 22:5; cf. I Kings 14:21 and II Chron. 9:30 ). It was used of Joseph when he was seventeen (Gen. 37:2). In fact, not less than seventy times in the King James Version this word "naar" is translated "young man" or "young men."

Meanwhile, I'm tempted to give one to the guy who paraphrased the Message Bible:

Kings 2:23-24 (The Message)
The Message (MSG)

23 Another time, Elisha was on his way to Bethel and some little kids came out from the town and taunted him, "What's up, old baldhead! Out of our way, skinhead!"

24 Elisha turned, took one look at them, and cursed them in the name of God. Two bears charged out of the underbrush and knocked them about, ripping them limb from limb—forty-two children in all!

[Cynic Sage]

Heroisreeal:

http://www.theologyweb.com/campus/showthread.php?t=86068

Jhn 6:70 Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?

first 12 = 3 X God
second 12 = 3 X Jesus
12 X Jesus = 888 ( 3 infinitys turned 90 degrees.)
88 X 8 = 704 (God )

Rev 12:4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them
to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered,
for to devour her child as soon as it was born.

Rev 12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent,
called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world:
he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
I = 9 (beginning)
N = 14 (last)
I + N = 23,end, I AM
3 X I AM = Jehovah

I X N (first & last ) = AZ ( 126) Alpha & omega, God between God

Exd 25:22 And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above
the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which [are] upon the ark of the
testimony, of all [things] which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.
AZ X 180 (AZ + love ) = Love x G x O X D John 1:1
Man's best friend is God turned backward.
Rev 22:13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

The third 12 + 12 = three I AMs

Zero

[Gideon Brown]

More xtian t-shirts, these ones form Kerruso clothing co.:

http://www.kerusso.com/

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Guy in marketing: Hey! I know how we can make T-shirts that bring Glory to God. Let's compare the Saving Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ with soft-drink logos.

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AMERICA! **** YEAH!

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"Jesus" is the name of her mexican gardener.

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What? You'd expect someone to actually buy these sober?

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Get exploited by the love of Christ.

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Wow, that'll make folks wanna convert.

I don't think those are necessarily screwy. It's just another way to get people talking about Christianity - and what's wrong with that?

[Spheniscine]

I think some of the more 'shocking' ones (heavy drinker? brainwashed?) definitely deserve it though. Sure it draws attention, but not the right kind.

[P-Dunn]

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"Jesus" is the name of her mexican gardener.

That shirt reminds me of a story I once heard about a girl who sang a song, "My boyfriend has a first name, it's J-E-S-U-S!"

[jpholding]

Email proving that critical thinking is at an all time low:

I just read your article on Jesus - Destroying the Christ
Myth. In it, you take the position that Gamaliel never
existed, while your position was to be taken as sarcasm,
why do you think that he did exist? And what bearing would
that have one way or the other on the existence of Jesus?

Just wondering. I was hoping to get something conclusive
from your thesis but I did not read much that would drive me to think one way or the other and that is the perplexing
situation facing everyone - believe based on tradition and
faith or wonder based on the lack of credible evidence?

A soon to be adherent of the Roman Piso theory.

[Rayado]

Two Screwball nominations for a website: www.soul-winners.org

The first one is a Gold Screwball for New Lows in Web Design, as a quick perousal will prove; the second, a Bronze, is for the actual content:

Stupid, ill-thought-out tracts with an obscene number of exclamation marks? Check.

Extremely shallow theology that results in heresy? Check. According to them, TrueChrisitans(tm) do not sin. At all. Which is really funny, because in their tracts they frequently mention 1 John 1:5-7, while completely ignoring vv. 8-10.

To top it all off, they're going around to college campuses, holding signs that say "no homos in heaven" and "all homos go to hell," and generally being enfant provocateurs, making actual Christians look terrible in the process.

[Sparko]

You owe me a new set of eyeballs. I went and looked at that site and the afterimages are still floating in front of my vision.

[Jnthn]

You owe me a new set of eyeballs. I went and looked at that site and the afterimages are still floating in front of my vision.

Say it with me:

"Word art is EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVIL!!

J

[spl_cadet]

I would like to nominate Marshall Brian for this video, in which he, among other things, thinks that Jesus saying that people should "eat my body and drink my blood" is literal:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMdV6vCCyqU

Uh, you do realize most Christians do take that literally, right?

[jpholding]

Uh, you do realize most Christians do take that literally, right?

Brain would likely never view it in terms of transubstantiation. He's not that bright. He more likely thinks Jesus expects people to bite into his walking-around-now body.