I think you guys are taking it too far

Published by Bobby Henderson September 24th, 2007 in Hate Mail (and concerned criticism).

I saw your Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster website today.

Okay, it’s great to have a bit of a laugh, and I did when I read the bit about ‘our God having bigger balls than yours’ but I think you guys are taking it too far.

10 million people? Get real. No-one believes in that crap. Your only supporters are atheists, which means they don’t believe in a God.

Academic endorsements? You don’t need a PhD to understand God. Having a PhD does not mean that you can make judgements about God and religion, put them in a box and say “this is God”. No-one can do that.

Also, don’t you think that you might be offending some people? Openly discriminating another religion is not regarded as a decent thing to do. This is not the Crusades. Get with the times. We Christians don’t openly insult other religions on web pages, nor do they against us. There is nothing wrong with having a joke without poking fun at others.

Seriously, I think you guys are pathetic.

I’m not even going to try and counter your theories, because I don’t need to, they’re so stupid.

The reason I sent you this email was because I saw your hate mail page and thought I might contribute.

One last thing, to all you so-called ‘Christians’ out there posting hate-mail on this website, I don’t think you’re acting like a Christian if you threaten them with hell, or tell them God will punish them, because of the website.

You’re just as bad as the creators of the website.

Get a life, Mr. Henderson. Stop acting like a primary school kid.

You must be an AMerican, to come up with such crap.

If you want to actually be saved, read the real bible.

Please publish this on your hate mail page. Otherwise writing this email will have been in vain

-GSG

370 Responses to “I think you guys are taking it too far”

1. 341 - November 19th, 2007 at 4:56 pm - Noodles with soy sauce Says:
   
   

   Pasta Dutchie is right, Christians, Crusaders slaughtered not only Muslims but fellow Christians as it was done during the sack of Constantinople.

2. 342 - November 19th, 2007 at 5:38 pm - Jennyanydots Says:
   
   

   Oh bugger. I just went to all the trouble of replying to Rylore on the archaeology issue on an entirely different thread. I do wish people would stick to only throwing out this sort of challenge in one place at a time. All I’m going to add to my previous comment here is to recommend people look at the Biblical Archaeology section of http://badarchaeology.net although the rest is worth a look too.

3. 343 - November 19th, 2007 at 5:48 pm - Jennyanydots Says:
   
   

   Sorry if Pluto and co have already made this point - read this far down Rylore’s fantasy and just had to respond on this one - “More Christians have been persecuted throughout history than every other religion put together.”
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   Mostly by other christians, and if you want examples of persecution, how about the Spanish conquest of South America?

4. 344 - November 19th, 2007 at 5:55 pm - Momi Pink Shoes Says:
   
   

   Well you know what? YOUR MOM took it too far with me last night!
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   Ooooohhhh!!!!
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   @Rylore - Hehehe, you said “oodles”

5. 345 - November 19th, 2007 at 6:08 pm - Old Grouch Says:
   
   

   Alexander Pope wrote: “A little learning is a dangerous thing./ Drink deep, or touch not the Perean Spring.”
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   Mixed in with a little learning - VERY LITTLE (!) - this Rylore character also posts some of the usual absurdities the funnymentalcases use to “prove” their own self-delusions. But it would take far too much time, energy, and effort to even begin to unravel the mess.
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   He begins by telling us that “science thought the world was flat”, and goes on from there. Wonderful case of blaming the ignorance and stupidity of his own brand of nonsense on the very entity that has the facts and evidence that refute his whole thesis. The bibliolatry cults are now the ones who, somehow, some way, propounded the “truth”, while everyone from Heraclitus to Galeleo, et.al. were telling it “wrong”.
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   But, in the end, he does manage to demonstrate what it takes to become a success in the Je$u$ Bu$ine$$.(Prote$tanti$m, which really ain’t all that “Christian” to begin with, much less as the book-bangers and bs-bellowers have it today.)
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   Anyone want to bet he’s either got a Pulpit of his own or a “Professorship” in one of the “Bible Universities” these whackos advertise in the comic pages? Or, with all the flowing rhetoric, and flowering flatulence, both jobs perhaps?

6. 346 - November 19th, 2007 at 7:02 pm - PacificPam (Cool-Aid) Says:
   
   

   *grabs popcorn and sits in front of computer eagerly waiting for replys*
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   Yay, debate…I looove it…come on! I’ve been waiting for this…

7. 347 - November 19th, 2007 at 7:55 pm - Boheme Wench Says:
   
   

   Dude, yeah Christians make sneering comments at other religions nowadays. LOOK AT THE HATEMAIL SECTION! WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE WEIRD SATANIST, THEY’RE ALL CHRISTIANS! Geez

8. 348 - November 20th, 2007 at 12:47 am - Teh Spag-worshipper Says:
   
   

   @Rylore
   You say that nothing scientific disproves the Bible? Then please tell me how it is possible for it to rain for forty days and forty nights /all over the world/ without the atmosphere losing all its water. I don’t pretend to be a physicist or a geographer - I’m fourteen years old - but what I /do/ know is that there is a finite amount of water in the world.
   Secondly, how did all the animals fit into the Ark? It states the measurements in the Bible; now, I’m not too great with cubits and spans, but it seems to me that to fit two of every kind of animal in there - and that, of course, includes everything that isn’t a fish or an insect - would actually require some sort of distortion of the space.
   Thirdly, if God created the world, then how can scientists trace the Big Bang so precisely? In case you didn’t know, they can place it to within a thousandth of a second - can you do the same with Genesis? Precision matters, you know, when verifying claims.
   Fourthly, and perhaps a little off-topic, you say that there are ‘no contradictions in the Bible’. Sorry mate, you’re wrong. Reread Genesis, and read it very carefully. See the split between the ’seven days’ theory and the whole Adam and Eve issue? Look carefully at what each side of it says. /Then/ tell me there’s no contradictions in the Bible.
   Fifthly, you claim that the Bible has ’supernatural origins’. Do you have proof that the men who wrote it were visited by God? Perhaps they just saw some tasty-looking mushrooms…
   I don’t particularly mean to disparage your religion. I’d just rather you didn’t quote pseudo-science at us in an attempt to explain an unfounded belief. In my opinion, Genesis was never meant to be taken literally. I think the only thing special about Christianity (and, indeed, the other People of the Book) is how absurdly /literal/ they are about it all. I’m a total mythology buff, and I’ll say this now; I see no reason why Genesis is any more believable than that the Earth being a god and the Sky being his wife. Or why God saying ‘ooh, let’s make some stars’ is so much more believable than a goddess slicing up her dead children and throwing them into the sky.
   Mythology seems to have a way of stopping me believing. Much like primary school. -.-

9. 349 - November 20th, 2007 at 3:49 am - Captain Capelli d'angelo Says:
   
   

   @Rylore
   Using the bible to prove god/jesus exists is like using tarrot cards to validate fortune telling. You can see what you want to see. The sweet part is that if you change your mind you will find verse to support the your new (opposite) opinion as well. I suspect everything you claim in your biblical disertaions could be argued using the same bible - different verses.

   I am going to cheat here and quote/plagerize Dennis McKinsey’s research regarding the one biblical topic that should be etched in stone without error or room for discussion. That is the exact account of the resurection. This should be important enough to warrant an exact and detailed expalnation without room for doubt or contradition…right?

   Read on…

   A. At what time in the morning did the women visit the tomb?- At the rising of the sun (Mark 16:2) vs. when it was yet dark (John 20:1)

   B. Who came?- Mary Magdalene alone (John 20:1) vs. Mary Magdalene and the other Mary (Matt. 28:1) vs. Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Salome (Mark 16:1) vs. Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James and other women (Luke 24:10)

   C. Was the tomb opened or closed when they arrived? - Open (Luke 24:2) vs. closed (Matt 28:1-2)

   D. Whom did they see at the tomb?- The angel (Matt. 28:2) vs. a young man (Mark 16:5) vs. two men (Luke 24:4) vs. two angels (John 20:11-12)

   E. Were these men or angels inside or outside the tomb? -Outside (Matt. 28.2) vs. inside (Mark 16:5, Luke 24:3-4, John 20:11-12).

   F. Were they standing or sitting? - Standing (Luke 24:4) vs. sitting (Matt. 28:2, Mark 16:5, John 20:12).

   G. Did Mary Magdalene know Jesus when he first appeared to her?-Yes, she did (Matt. 28:9) vs. no she did not (John 20:14).

   You can flatly reject all this I suppose… but hey…it’s your fucking book. Arrrrrrrr…………

10. 350 - November 20th, 2007 at 7:49 am - Captain Capelli d'angelo Says:
    
    

    OK, OK. I just read my own post and realized that I had a few typos. Regardless of appearances I am NOT a closet fundie.

11. 351 - November 21st, 2007 at 1:01 am - Resonator Says:
    
    

    Trying to talk a man out of his religion is like trying to help him shit a cinder block. Once he has something like that up his ass, he’d rather it stay there, and he’ll do just about anything to keep it there. He’ll convince himself that it belongs there, that it needs to be there to fill a void (never mind how it got there in the first place). Anything would be less painful than letting it pass. To share the pain, he’ll make sure other people have cinder blocks of their asses too. He’ll hurt people who don’t out of jealousy, he’ll…

    Hmmm… The cinder block up the ass metaphor seemed right at first, but now it’s not fitting so well (no pun intended).

12. 352 - November 21st, 2007 at 1:45 am - The Nope Says:
    
    

    Every time I see some long-ass post written by someone who can’t get through the day without bringing up religion…it just reminds me of someone who needs to move out of their parent’s basement and enter the real world.

13. 353 - November 21st, 2007 at 2:06 am - Fool Says:
    
    

    @Rylore I will give you $1,000,000 if you can use the scientific method to prove your delusions are true.
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    Catholics are not christians? and you claim to know history. before Luther did his thing, all christians were catholics, so your logic about christians not prosecuting people is wrong.
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    Care to explain how the bible is all about christ? I think the Jews might have a problem with that. wich brings me to another point Jesus was a jew, and a conservative jew at that.
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    Can you prove your statements? not just quote your book of fantasies but actually go out there and give hard proof that your fairy tales are true?
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    The bible has a lot of translation errors, the original was written in a language no longer used, and every time it was translated to a new language it was changed to fit the views of the time. so the book you are reading is not the same things that the original authors wrote, so your book is a lie.
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    The flat earth was a christian idea, look a Galileo, and Copernicus, why were they prosecuted by the church if the church believed the earth was round.
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    Who the F are you to decide who is a ‘true’ chritian and who is not.
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    I could go on poking holes at your so called arguments but I think that this should be enough to get you started on the road to learning the truth, that you got sold a bunch of lies and you fell for it.

14. 354 - November 21st, 2007 at 2:07 am - Fool Says:
    
    

    @Resonator ouch, that was a painful, yet accurate metaphor.

15. 355 - November 21st, 2007 at 2:07 am - PacificPam (Cool-Aid) Says:
    
    

    Every time I see some long-ass post written by someone….I just can’t read it because I get bored.

16. 356 - November 21st, 2007 at 2:16 am - PacificPam (Cool-Aid) Says:
    
    

    *eats popcorns anxiously*

17. 357 - November 21st, 2007 at 2:45 am - PacificPam (Cool-Aid) Says:
    
    

    …

18. 358 - November 27th, 2007 at 4:02 am - Capt'n Spahgz Says:
    
    

    You must be american A-hole
    (sorry to all my american Pastafarian friends but i find alot of americans to be narrow minded and rude Sorry again. You arent really all bad just the ones who voted for that idiot bushwacker(Bush)sorry again if any of you fall under that category. lets just say for the most part the american public is Ok. to whom it may concern i am from Nova Scotia Canada)

19. 359 - November 27th, 2007 at 9:19 pm - My own first mate (weren't you?) Says:
    
    

    ummm…

    “10 million people? Get real. No-one believes in that crap. Your only supporters are atheists, which means they don’t believe in a God.”

    Actually, atheism is the lack of faith in religion. I believe adeism would be a non-belief in god. I happen to be both.

    Oh yeah, I’m American as well. Since this little shit seems to be a fellow countryman, let me apologize for the both of us. Sorry about, oh, the last 7 years or so.

    Scary how tightly wound and closed-minded some of them can be. Notice he uses a capital G even when not necessarily speaking of his personal bogeyman!

20. 360 - November 29th, 2007 at 2:52 am - ~*~*Big Jay*~*~ Says:
    
    

    “Must be American to come up with crap like that?” arent the people we are fighting Christians? arent those Christians also Americans? So that means Christianity is crap. Wow, you just made an amazing discovery thanks!

    RAmen.

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