this youtube version will mean your post gets a thumbnail.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLLnjmNFfoQ&feature=player_embedded

The internet was created to spread imagery of cats.

*dead

*dead

*promote

the chair was a nice touch

*beg

*discard

I want to go through this and tape pennies to my belly to make words or smiley/frowny faces.

dystopianfuturetoday totally read my mind.
I fell kinda dirty.
and yet, this leaves me quite prepared to pass through one of these scanners now!

*beg

yes, the translation that was penned 1540+ years after the original manuscripts, and 1200 yeas after the council of nicaea voted on which of those manuscripts are the right ones, why yes, that version is the original.

that's a *terrible idea

http://www.videosift.com/video/Undisputed-king-of-abcesses-Gallons-of-Pus

only a very small part of Christianity attempts to teach people to get along with each other. The rest of it is doctrine set up to encourage obedience to centralized power. This is all terribly ironic, since in the small portion of the bible actually dedicated to the teachings of jesus it presents the notion that because of jesus, anyone and everyone can have a direct connection to the magical abusive drunken old guy in the sky. Jesus spent much of his teachings tearing down the notion of centralized authority, and controlled access to spirituality.

Christianity became the political tool that we see today back in 325 when Roman Emperor Constantine paid a bunch of religious leaders to vote on which documents were representative of Christian faith - as long as they left room for the Emperor to be part of that power structure. It's much easier to control the people if they all worship the same god, instead of having multiple gods all with different agendas.

There's this small little bit of good stuff in the bible which is a decent chunk of what jesus says. The rest is filled with genealogies, tales of war, killings, an angry god, and Paul of tarsus, calling on the newly enlightened Christians to maintain the oppressive and intolerant orders of the old testament. All of that contrary to what jesus claimed was the entire purpose of his time on earth. Jesus talked about how his purpose was to do away with all of those old laws, and to create a new method of gaining favor with his dad (who is also somehow himself).

The bible itself is so clouded with mountains of useless if not dangerous and contrary garbage that people use to justify their own hatred. If the bible really was there to create a moral compass for people, it would be much, much shorter and clearer. It is quite possibly the most poorly written instruction manual ever created, and I've read some really terrible Engrish manuals before.

There are 1189 chapters in the bible. Does it really take 789,626 words to say "don't be a dick"? you'd think that the creator of the universe would make better use of text, and possibly reveal some genuinely useful information, like the nature of viruses and bacteria, techniques for better agriculture, methods of international diplomacy that don't involve "shoot first, ask questions later", or even something as basic as "slavery is bad".