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[urbpan]

Don't forget, religious people:

"All things dull and ugly, all creatures short and squat
All things rude and nasty, the Lord God made the lot
Each little snake that poisons, each little wasp that stings
He made their brutish venom, He made their horrid wings

All things sick and cancerous, all evil great and small
All things foul and dangerous, the Lord God made them all
Each nasty little hornet, each beastly little squid
Who made the spiky urchin? Who made the shark? He did

All things scabbed and ulcerous, all pox both great and small
Putrid, foul and gangrenous, the Lord God made them all"

-Idle

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[ms-cantrell.livejournal.com]

i like that, thank you

[lynsage.livejournal.com]

hallelujah!

if i were still speaking to my mother, i'd send that to her. she believes that certain animals (basically any she doesn't like) are "of the devil" and the last time she was here she hid our stuffed snake under a bunch of stuff in my closet while she was "organizing" the toys for zia.

[ms-cantrell.livejournal.com]

seems like a poor idea to invest the devil with the powers of creation... sets a poor precedent. also seems to me, though, that it's a poor idea to invest any invisible and time-defying thing with the power of creation, really, so why quibble? maybe the stuff of the devil is there to balance out the stuff of god. yin and yang, bible style.
makes it easier to not believe any of it. it's just there, be at peace with its existance, right? :)

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

I like the idea of God and the Devil breaking down Creation animal by animal.

God:..."and I'll make cute little bunnies-"
Satan: (interrupting) "And I'll make pythons to eat them!"


One of the main reasons I descrbe myself as pantheist is because that sort divine division of labor (and moreover, the whole idea that earthly things are evil) makes no sense to me. A religion needs to be logically consistent if I'm gonna wear their symbol.

[lynsage.livejournal.com]

what's even funnier is that my mom doesn't believe the devil made the creatures that are "of him".

i'm trying to recall exactly what her position was on them (after all, i was a small child when she was last able to spew this crap at me), but it was something like that gawd had made all the wittle aminals, but after adam and eve had that whole incident with the apple, god set aside some of them (starting with those mean old snakes) to be servants of the bad guy downstairs. somthing about them biting our feet and us stomping on their heads, blah blah blah.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

I used to spend a lot of time on www.cryptozoology.com There was (is) a major contingent of Creationists who believed that since the earth is only 6000 years old, there's a decent chance that dinosaurs are still alive (they must get in arguments with other Creationists who believe dinosaurs never existed). They also believed that before The Fall, all creatures were vegetarian. It's only after Adam fucked up that Tyrannosaurus became a meat eater.

[crunchywater.livejournal.com]

hahah! This was fun! ^_^

[aemiis-zoo.livejournal.com]

Did you write that? It's quite good. =)
(oh, and now I am going to add you to my friend's list too!)

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

No, I definitely can't take credit for it. Eric Idle (of Monty Python fame) wrote it. I can't decide if I like him better as a comic actor, songwriter, or philosopher. I heard him sing that on an NPR Terry Gross interview and had to share it--as a piece of pantheist satire.

The whole soundtrack to "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life" is loaded with Idle genius: http://www.mwscomp.com/movies/mol/m-lyrics.htm

My favorite is "The Galaxy Song"

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving,
And revolving at 900 miles an hour,
That's orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it's reckoned
A sun that is the source of all our power.

The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see,
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at 40,000 miles an hour
Of the Galaxy we call the Milky Way.

Our Galaxy itself contains 100 billion stars
It's 100,000 light years side to side
It bulges in the middle, 16,000 light years thick
But out by us it's just 3,000 light years wide

We're 30,000 light years from galactic central point,
We go round every 200 million years
And our Galaxy is only one of millions and billions
In this amazing and expanding Universe
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light you know,
12 million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.

So remember when you're feeling very small and insecure
How amazingly unlikely it is your birth
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
Because there's bugger all down here on Earth.


And and everybody remembers the gleefully nihilist last stanza from "Always look on the bright side of life" (from "Life of Brian")

Life's a piece of shit
When you look at it
Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it's true.
You'll see it's all a show
Keep 'em laughing as you go
Just remember that the last laugh is on you.

[aemiis-zoo.livejournal.com]

I love "The Galaxy Song" from "The Meaning of Life". It always cracks me up. "And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
Because there's bugger all down here on Earth," sadly, so true.
*cheers* =)