Religon Strikes, Chick Tract wannabe, and Good Samaritians gone bad!! (Long post)

[ArenaBoy]

Yeah, I never did understand why they put Dianetics in Self-Improvement and not Religion.

Blaquekatt took care of that and they've been in trouble for some extreme things. They also sue anybody for the smallest thing that is in no way related to them. I still find it funny that they tried to sue an actor on CSI, Old Mother Hubbard, Boeing, Jimmy Buffet, and lord knows what else.

I've been on the fence of working religious conferences and that 90% of the customers attending them are the nicest people I dealt with (One guy paid for the car behind him because he felt bad for cutting her off). A lot of them would just ask how you were doing and were if anything cheery people. The 10% were the ones who complained about the parking fee, the seating, and were self entitled jerks who ticked me off.

It's worth pointing out that Time isn't a perfectly reliable magazine. Especially when it comes to religion and belief.

What's bad about Time? I'm not debating just curious as I used to read the magazine.

[Can I Help Your A$$?]

Ah, the tract! That tract is from Ray Comfort's "Way of the Master." I know this "test" quite well, because I interviewed him on my show. He is known for his "banana argument" against evolution (the banana is good, and shaped to fit the hand, hence evolution is bad, etc).

In said interview, I personally refuted the argument (God didn't make the banana as we know it, God made a small, hard, seeded round thing that doesn't resemble the human-selected banana), and whaddaya know, he said, and I quote "You can have the banana."

Yet, not surprisingly, he still uses the Banana Argument with Mr. Kirk "Growing Pains" Cameron to this day. Harumph.

So we have the Scientologists.....

So this woman comes in and asks about Dianetics. Sure, I show her where we keep them.

"It's not the right edition!!" (Oh boy....) "They reprinted a new edition!! You don't have a new edition!!" (And your telling me this why?) "And it's not Self-Help!! It's a RELIGION!!" (Okay, get outta my store before you start jumping on our chairs you ham-beast.

Ah, she was in "Tone-40." It's supposed to instantly bend you to her will.

[BookstoreEscapee]

um how about because it's not a religion, it's a cult, the church was stripped of it's tax exempt status in 1967-L. Ron Hubbard was a very bad and struggling science fiction writer

Yeah, I know that...well, not the tax thing. I guess religion's not really the right place but I never thought Self Improvement seemed right either...but I guess they gotta put it somewhere. As for his Sci-Fi books I used to scan them all the time while I was zoning in that section...notice I don't say "shelve" because we never sold them, therefore we never got new copies in to shelve. I just scanned the same copies over and over again each new returns cycle. They never let me return them, either, which sucked cuz I really needed the space.

[Andara Bledin]

"Do you hate me, sir?"
"Yes..."
"You murderer!"

Bwahaha... Yeah, that's the part that I thought was the best, too.

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I've never actually seen a Chick Tract in person. I don't know whether to be sad or relieved.

^-.-^

[Bank Lady]

I've never actually seen a Chick Tract in person. I don't know whether to be sad or relieved.

^-.-^

I'm not a fan of them, but I have to say I prefer them to actually having to talk to a crazy fundamentalist (Note, I am specifying a fundamentalist who is crazy, not generalizing that all fundamentalists are crazy. Just have to get that in to cover my rear.)

I was in a check out line one day talking to a friend of mine. Apparantly the woman in front of us was eavesdropping, but incredibly poorly. I was talking about how I collected baseball cards one year with my dad and sister. Somehow she heard me say that I had sex with three men. WHAT?!?! Where did that come from???

She proceeded to lecture me for twenty minutes after I got through the check out about how I needed to have respect for myself, that God loved me and I needed to love myself just as much as God did. She also went on about her friend who spoke in tongues and received visions out of nowhere.

Now, I am a Christian. I've been one all my life and my mother was recently ordained as a Methodist minister. I have no problem sharing my beliefs if someone asks and I like to hear other people's beliefs when the subject comes up in discussion. However, DO NOT FORCE YOUR VIEWS ON ME, especially while incredibly poorly eavesdropping.

[ArenaBoy]

Ah, she was in "Tone-40." It's supposed to instantly bend you to her will.

Well judging by the way she acted it's obvious that she made herself "clear."

[edible_hat]

I've lusted...did I still commit adultery if I'm not married?

I've justed after the woman who will hopefully become my wife...

[JustADude]

Either way, JustADude, we'll hang out in the flames together...I'll bring the marshmallows if you'll find us some sticks...

I've got the chocolate! Who had the graham crackers?

I've got a brand new box of graham crackers we bought for camping, but never got to use.

Weeeeeelllll... I was saving these pointy sticks for the eyes of those who attempt to harangue me into giving them liquor without ID or gas without payment up front, but Smores are one of the few things I like more than the suffering of the asinine.

I'm in!

[Gurndigarn]

What's bad about Time? I'm not debating just curious as I used to read the magazine.

I don't read it a lot (I prefer to get my news from other sources than magazines, as a rule), but it seemed like the few times I did crack its covers, somewhere in the thing there was a sideways joke at some organized religion. Frequently mine. It was never an out-and-out slam, but one that made me wonder about the mindset of the editors.

Oh, and there was the one issue with an out-and-out hatchet job on my chuch, as well. Front cover and all. It sort of colored my perception about the objectivity of the magazine.

[MystyGlyttyr]

I've never actually seen a Chick Tract in person. I don't know whether to be sad or relieved.

I grew up Catholic. They used to get peppered through our church's parking lot whenever we were at Mass. That's why we kept a recycling box outside.

[Hon'ya-chan]

(the banana is good, and shaped to fit the hand, hence evolution is bad, etc).

Ewww. Penis metaphor coming thru....

I've never actually seen a Chick Tract in person. I don't know whether to be sad or relieved.

Dark Dungeons, parodied MST3K style.

[Tigress]

You can read them in their wonderful bigoted glory on the Chick Publications web site. Some of them are very wrong, hilariously so.

[Andara Bledin]

Oh, yeah. I know where to seek them out to get a good laugh (on days when Jack Thompson isn't filing gay porn as part of his legal documents), I've just never actually been in a position to hold one in my hand.

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[Broomjockey]

So we have the Scientologists.....

So this woman comes in and asks about Dianetics. Sure, I show her where we keep them.

"It's not the right edition!!" (Oh boy....) "They reprinted a new edition!! You don't have a new edition!!" (And your telling me this why?) "And it's not Self-Help!! It's a RELIGION!!" (Okay, get outta my store before you start jumping on our chairs you ham-beast.

Wait, I thought that I read on that "Exposing Scientology" site, can't remember the name now, that it was against their religious laws for any of his writings to be modified. So wouldn't it be a, you know, good thing for you to not have the new edition?

[Jester]

Ah, the fundamentalist. Notice the middle of that word, fundamentalist...."mental."

I am not here to slam anyone's religion, but have you noticed that the real crazies out there are the fundamentalists? We have funadmentalist Muslims trying to kill us. We have fundamentalist Jews attacking Muslims in the Middle East. We have fundamentalist Christians telling us all how wrong we are.

Well, since I find them entertaining to watch and listen to, I guess they are the kind of people that put the "fun" in fundamentalist. Ya think?

And this all reminds me of a joke that is bound to get me in trouble. But what the hell?

*MOD EDIT - If you knew the joke could cause problems, why post it in the first place?

The point being that just about every religion preaches that is the only true one....but the fundamentalists take that to much too heart, and make sure everyone else knows it.

I am descended from Jews, was raised by Atheists, am basically a Pagan, and keep ending up dating Catholics. Now, what did you want to tell me about your religion?