Reply to: Have you made peace with god (or the Mods depending on your faith)

[xoggoth]

My physics teacher at skool said the same about the leading physicists of the day

He was probably right. Some major scientists were driven by religion, it just happens that they were right so never got questioned.

Loiuse Pasteur chose to ignore many experiments that appeared to support the idea of spontaneous creation rather than actually look into and explain them. (Some bacteria can survive prolonged boiling which nobody realised at the time) Milikan simply excluded any experiments that did not support his value of e even when there was no obvious flaw in them.

[Sysman]

You would not think a former civil engineer would be so irrational but I read a while back (can't be bovvered to find it) that engineers are actually over represented among religious nuts, apparently they seek certainty and order in life and are thus inclined to fundamentalism.

My physics teacher at skool said the same about the leading physicists of the day. Well, except he was more polite and called them Christian believers instead of religious nutters.

[d000hg]

My theory is that being a Yank, he didn't consider time zones, and had to invent a new version once somebody pointed them out.

Americans are more used to timezones than Brits, considering their country crosses several of them and ours doesn't.

[xoggoth]

You would not think a former civil engineer would be so irrational but I read a while back (can't be bovvered to find it) that engineers are actually over represented among religious nuts, apparently they seek certainty and order in life and are thus inclined to fundamentalism.

[Sysman]

Probably the time that his bank stopped processing BACS transfers.

My theory is that being a Yank, he didn't consider time zones, and had to invent a new version once somebody pointed them out.

[shaunbhoy]

Where did the 6pm come from?

Probably the time that his bank stopped processing BACS transfers.

[NotAllThere]

I think it was to cope with recent scientific evidence that the world is not, in fact, flat. It was a surprise to me, I can tell you. Especially living near the alps.

[d000hg]

Where did the 6pm come from? Finding a way to make a certain date fit can't be hard but why 6pm and where did the rolling timezone-based thing come from?

[meridian]

What is so sad about this BS is that my father really believed it.

"Accept Jesus into your life and you will see your mother again"

Eff that. Getting nagged and criticised to death isn't my idea of decent life, let alone heaven.

Jim Jeffries has a great take on that.

"Hello Nan, hello Grandad, hello Uncle who used to touch me. How did you get up here? Oh, that's right, you used to work for the Church...."

[NotAllThere]

So what's his excuse going to be for all the fundies not getting raptured ?

No excuse required. Camping doesn't really represent mainstream Christianity. Or, indeed, much of non-mainstream Christianity. Most Christians are aware that Jesus apparently said "No one knows when I'm coming back except the father, and he isn't telling". (Rough paraphrase).

[d000hg]

Well all of us "unbelievers" are still here, but has anyone seen d000hg today?

'fraid so me old mucker. Must have been the wrong kind of rapture.

[Sysman]

What is so sad about this BS is that my father really believed it.

"Accept Jesus into your life and you will see your mother again"

Eff that. Getting nagged and criticised to death isn't my idea of decent life, let alone heaven.

[RichardCranium]

you should have made peas with God

[TykeMerc]

So what's his excuse going to be for all the fundies not getting raptured ?

Oh sorry I got it wrong it should be you should have made peas with God

I think I got ruptured on Saturday replacing the washing machine in the ex wife's cellar, the drongo delivery people from Comet said "we don't do cellars". Does that count? Maybe it was a typo?

[amcdonald]

So what's his excuse going to be for all the fundies not getting raptured ?

Oh sorry I got it wrong it should be you should have made peas with God