On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 07:41, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 02:08:19AM -0800, Alexander Hvostov wrote: > > How do you know that it's actually worshipping the devil? > > Because the bible says so. Ooh... > > How do you > > know _you're_ not actually worshipping the devil? > > Because the bible says so. Ow. > > Actually, people who > > practice black magic might not be worshipping anything at all. How can > > they be worshipping the devil, then? > > Because the bible says so. I surrender!!! > (More seriously, ISTR there being verses which actually do say that > contacting any source of supernatural power other than God is talking > to Satan, although he might pretend to be someone/something else. Well, that is entirely possible. To what end might Satan do such a thing? > > > (This statement brought to you by my inability to forget my old > > > bible-thumping days back in high school...) > > > > You were bible-thumping in _high_school_??? > > Yup. Went to a holy-rolling, speaking in tongues, dancing in the > aisles, raising your hands, pentacostal, charismatic church, carried > my painted-up NIV translation with me to class every day, and read > The Word during my frequent in-class downtime. Well at least you enjoyed yourself, instead of being a complete zombie. > Tried to start a > (bad) christian rap group with a couple of my (also white) friends > from church and painted up my jacket accordingly. Christian _rap_??? How do subjects such as expensive cars, shooting people, drugs, sex, and alcohol fit into Christian music? > Went to abortion- > rights rallies and sat on the sidelines eating Domino's pizza. I thought Bible thumpers were generally _against_ abortion? > Completely missed out on popular 80s music because I only listened to > christian rock. I completely missed out on popular 80s music because I wasn't old enough to care. :P > I _actually_played_ DragonRaid, the christian-themed > role-playing game - er, I mean "Adventure Learning System" > [snip] Sounds boring. Alex. -- PGP Public Key: http://aoi.dyndns.org/~alex/pgp-public-key -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS d- s:++ a18 C++(++++)>$ UL+++(++++) P--- L+++>++++ E---- W+(+++) N- o-- K+ w--- !O M(+) V-- PS+++ PE-- Y+ PGP+(+++) t* 5-- X-- R tv b- DI D+++ G e h! !r y ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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