Party at my place in Hell!

or; fanatic fundies find me lacking - to Hell they have sent me packing.

from JoeUser Forums
(This is going to sound like an unfriendly rant if you don't read the article here first. And yeah, it's not going to be very friendly, but oh well.)

So my little sister just walked in, and I told her, "Hey! I've just been branded non-Christian and been told to have fun in Hell!"

She looked at me, eyes wide and incredulous, and said, "Umm . . . why?"

I answered, "Because I didn't find it offensive that they opened the senate with a prayer by a Hindu cleric the other day!"

Her astute reply? (I guess she's an okay little sister after all) "So?"

So we sat and watched the video of what happened. Has anyone heard the whole prayer? For sure, I can give you my quick transcript of what is in his prayer.

Let us pray. We meditate on the transcendental glory of the Deity Supreme, who is inside the heart of the earth, inside the life of the sky, and inside the soul of the heavens. May he stimulate and illuminate our minds. Lead us from the un-real to the real; from darkness to light.

Well, wasn't that just . . . non-denominational. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that in a Christian church. So it didn't end in the name (or contain vain repetitions of the name, as so many "Christian" prayers do) of Christ. But still, people . . .

If I'm un-Christian and hellbound for not finding that offensive, then I don't want to hang out in Heaven with the people that were trying to shout him down. A heaven filled with just officious, judicious, and rectitudinous pricks is no place for me.

So party at my crib in Hell. We'll have a great time, people. Everyone who's been summarily damned for believing that the US should stand up for religious freedom instead of theocratic nonsense can come over.

They'll be lots of soda, some chips. We'll watch a movie or two. :D
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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
GET A GRIP, PEOPLE! WORRY ABOUT SOMETHING THAT ACTUALLY MATTERS!!!!
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
Hey, thanks for the link. I have no idea whether or not you are a Christian besides what you tell me.

And, after getting a grip, I realize that Christ is really ALL that matters. It seems to me that there's more scandal than Christ in the senate these days anyway.
Ashes of the Singularity II
Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
I'll try to get a place next door to ya so we can party together. But then again, perhaps we'll have a block in Heaven all to ourselves as the more judgemental among us get a nasty surprise down the road.

And frankly I thought the Hindu gentleman's prayer was very good.
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
And frankly I thought the Hindu gentleman's prayer was very good.


I agree. I found his prayer rather eloquent (dare I say, beautiful?).

I'll try to get a place next door to ya so we can party together. But then again, perhaps we'll have a block in Heaven all to ourselves as the more judgemental among us get a nasty surprise down the road.


Sounds like a plan, Stan.
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
I have no idea whether or not you are a Christian besides what you tell me.


I gave two years of my life entirely in the service of Christ as a missionary. Yeah, I'm definitely Christian - just not by some's standards.
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
Only Christ/God's standard matters, though, right?
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top
we can watch the passion of the christ followed by the ninth gate, or maybe the davinci code.....would that be allowed?

plus i'm bringing a cake.
Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top
I'll bring the beers and the nachos, kay? Oh yeah, and my copy of the Athiest Manifesto for some, ahem, spirited discussion :LOL:
Reply #9 from JoeUser Forums Top
Yet another case of "what I think is right and what you think is wrong". And they wonder why people find them judgemental, unkind and don't want to join their club. I don't think a "true" Christian would tell anyone to "have fun in hell".

I'm coming to the party. I'll bring the subversive music that we can play forwards then backwards and maybe we'll even dance. No harps for us, we're going to have electric guitars.
Reply #10 from JoeUser Forums Top
A true Christian said it, and apologized for it.

Of course, I never thought he was actually going there, as he said he was a Christian.
Reply #11 from JoeUser Forums Top
Ok, now I am curious. In which thread did this damnation and apology occur in? I missed this one.

Of course apologizing for it makes it all ok right?
Reply #12 from JoeUser Forums Top
That depends on the person apologized to.
Reply #13 from JoeUser Forums Top
Never mind, I found it. Typical zealous religious babbling. That's the problem when people put religion in place of God.

God invented Man, Man invented religion, and the world has gone to Hell ever since.
Reply #14 from JoeUser Forums Top
God invented Man, Man invented religion, and the world has gone to Hell ever since


Amen, brutha!
Reply #15 from JoeUser Forums Top
God invented Man, Man invented religion, and the world has gone to Hell ever since.




Of course apologizing for it makes it all ok right?


That depends on the person apologized to.


Not like this is the first time I've been told that I'm certifiably hellbound, because most evangelical Christians think that I'm in a crazy Satan cult that makes me grow horns and devour the raw flesh of infants or some such nonsense . . .

I guess that's what I get for being Mormon.
Reply #16 from JoeUser Forums Top

That depends on the person apologized to.


Fair enough.
Reply #17 from JoeUser Forums Top
I heard the prayer was going to be said but didn't listen to it or never saw the words. It actually is better than I thought it would be.

Your title is so awsomely funny!!
Reply #18 from JoeUser Forums Top

I always find it so odd that some Christians get into a "I'm more Christian than you" or "you're not a real Christian" type debates.  Is it "un"Christian to learn about other religions while trying to teach your own?  It seems very much not Christian to JUDGE people as quickly as I see a lot of "Christians" do.

I'm not Christian, but I am very tolerant and I love to learn about all religions while I try to find my way to enlightenment about the right answer (though I'm not sure that will happen in my life time). It just seems so weird to me that people get so ridiculous about something or somebody not being 100% "Christian". 

Reply #19 from JoeUser Forums Top
I will ask GOD if I can get a couple passes to come visit and party with so many of you folks that I like and are more GOD fearing that many so called 'God fearing people'

I can't count the times I have been told I am doomed to hell not for who I am or for what I have done, but simply becouse {tribute to danielost} I am a JEW.
Reply #20 from JoeUser Forums Top
Hey, you can always be a Messianic Jew.
Reply #21 from JoeUser Forums Top
I can't count the times I have been told I am doomed to hell not for who I am or for what I have done, but simply becouse {tribute to danielost} I am a JEW.


I heard a rumor that the Jews bought Hell. Wholesale of course.
Reply #22 from JoeUser Forums Top
(Citizen)JythierJuly 19, 2007 15:41:39


Hey, you can always be a Messianic Jew.


or I could just be an old fashioned hell fire and brimestone old Testament kind of Jew, but I thank you for the kind offer.
Reply #23 from JoeUser Forums Top
MasonMJuly 19, 2007 20:19:28


I can't count the times I have been told I am doomed to hell not for who I am or for what I have done, but simply becouse {tribute to danielost} I am a JEW.


I heard a rumor that the Jews bought Hell. Wholesale of course.


we did! then sold it back to Satan.. at a profit of course.