May God Have Mercy on Us sinners

[Meal4u24at]

Since all of you think the world is a mess, why not do something that will make a difference rather being indifferent. Here's a simple prayer to get you started.


Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us our day, our daily bread. Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.

Lead us not into tempration, but deliver us from evil. Amen!

Two things this will do if you say this prayer:
1) God will move with love and show his mercy.
2) You will be moving from an attitude of in difference toward an attitude of making a difference.

You will need to stick with it if you expect to clean up the mess that is the world.

 

[steveo1955]

No thanks

 

[PiercedChest]

Relying on non-existent miracle workers is childish.

 

[slitneck1]

I guess if that makes you somehow feel better go for it, not my thing though

 

[alexonedeath]

I am already praying to Thor, and the results have been excellent thus far. My world is not a mess. I will be happy to share my Thor-prayer with you, upon request.

 

[deaddirty]

Each to their own.

 

[lindier]

I bat for a different team. But if your religion gives you consolation then go for it

 

[jbarn25]

Lets just say, I think religion does not need to be discussed on here unless, it had to do with some terrible accident, example the muslim crane crashing.

 

[Electroboyuk]

Thanks but Satan is my guy and I'll be staying with him.

 

[jbarn25]

Thanks but Satan is my guy and I'll be staying with him.

I hate to say it, but I do love the devil/Satan-being Athiest at the same time, thanks electroboy.

 

[lindier]

This is a fetish site and religion can be seen as a fetish so perhaps it is appropriate. And it gives us the opportunity of attaching them where appropriate. And for the satanists a chance to persuade us of the pleasures of hell

 

[PiercedChest]

This is a fetish site and religion can be seen as a fetish

That's interesting. Indeed many nuns seem to really experience extacy as 'brides of Christ' (Bernini's statue publicly showing the orgasm of Theresia in the Santa Maria della Victoria (indeed!) is an example that can hardly be misunderstood).

I did get physically excited as a boy by the naked body of Jesus on the cross, but unfortunately the whole religious rigmarole around crucifixes has spoilt the obvious homoerotic part of that for me.

 

[alexonedeath]

I did get physically excited as a boy by the naked body of Jesus on the cross...

Young man, you will need to give us 3 Hail Marys, 3 Our Fathers, a Decade of the Rosary and an Act of Contrition, and then you'll be good to GO AND SIN NO MORE.

 

[PiercedChest]

Young man, you will need to give us 3 Hail Marys, 3 Our Fathers, a Decade of the Rosary and an Act of Contrition, and then you'll be good to GO AND SIN NO MORE.

What is my sin exactly? 'My conscience is clean, I broke none of the Ten Commandments.

I would love to see a historically correct crucifix though: the Romans crucified their condemned without a loincloth.
The falsification of history by obscuring Jesus' genitals must be an abomination in the eyes of his supernatural father.

Did you know that you could pave a baseball stadium with all the holy foreskin relics of Jesus?

 

[lindier]

I agree with Piercedchest. The medieval period seemed to have a fixation with strategically placed fig leaves.
Jesus would have been crucified in the nude. However priests could not accept the eroticism implied in this. This the dig leaves and the loin cloth.
And yes. The amount of so called holy relics would be a miracle by itself . Proves the gullibility of the religious inguess

 

[alexonedeath]

The falsification of history by obscuring Jesus' genitals must be an abomination in the eyes of his supernatural father.

Did you know that you could pave a baseball stadium with all the holy foreskin relics of Jesus?

[GASP] Get thee behind me, Satan. You must not test the LORD your God. I'm afraid you've gone too far, Mr. P.C. It's excommunication for you!

 

[PiercedChest]

[GASP] Get thee behind me, Satan. You must not test the LORD your God. I'm afraid you've gone too far, Mr. P.C. It's excommunication for you!

Who commits the greater sin? The many lecherous liers about having a foreskin relic of Jesus, or the one calling them lecherous liers to their face?

 

[alexonedeath]

It saddens me that PiercedChest and lindier are lost to Jesus. REPENT, while there is still time! I will be awaiting you both in the confessional (during regular business hours).

 

[lindier]

I'm not sure if the pun was deliberate. Snag is that organised religion is becoming a business, probably always has been.bone reason why many of us have difficulty connecting to it
And remember that Jesus lived and died an Orthodox Jew. It was only the apostate Paul who for reasons of his own decided to start a new religion.

 

[alexonedeath]

organised religion is becoming a business, probably always has been

My favorite of Christ's many corporate endeavors is St. Matthew's Church, operating from a mailing address in Tulsa, OK. They promise that if you send THEM money, God will repay you ten-fold. How can anyone resist such an offer?