Is anyone here unfortunate enough to be an obsessive racist?

[N35t0r]

OK,
[/boring things]
[more racist jokes]

Really really horrible joke:

Q: How do you fit 100 jews in a mini cooper?
A: 2 in the front, 2 in the back and the rest in the ashtray

True story:

We were on a camping trip organised by our school, and a couple of teachers were with the group. One night, while telling jokes by a fire, a guy asks if it's OK with everyone if he tells a joke about jews, and one of the teachers goes all serious and says: "My grandfather died in Auschwitz". So this guy was really mortified and apologizing, and the teacher says: "He fell off a watchtower".

[KrazyHorse]

Wow, I've NEVER HEARD EITHER OF THOSE JOKES BEFORE.

[Asher]

It's funny because the guy in the watchtower was a jew!

[Hauldren Collider]

hi-LARIOUS

[Al B. Sure!]

Funny how a troll about Heraclitus would turn into both a racist joke thread and a debate about religion.

[Evan Madrigal]

Death to mankind.

[MrFun]

OK,
[/boring things]
[more racist jokes]

Really really horrible joke:

Q: How do you fit 100 jews in a mini cooper?
A: 2 in the front, 2 in the back and the rest in the ashtray

True story:

We were on a camping trip organised by our school, and a couple of teachers were with the group. One night, while telling jokes by a fire, a guy asks if it's OK with everyone if he tells a joke about jews, and one of the teachers goes all serious and says: "My grandfather died in Auschwitz". So this guy was really mortified and apologizing, and the teacher says: "He fell off a watchtower".

It wouldn't be a racist joke, but you can easily turn that into a 9/11 joke.

[Evan Madrigal]

Why do jews die? - It makes god cry.

[Imran Siddiqui]

By 'making it up as you go along' I wasn't referring to this thread, but your process of interpretation and the development of your faith on a personal level. It wasn't meant in a derogatory way.

That isn't necessarily "making it up as you go along". Biblical interpretation has been subject to revisions and counter-revisions since the beginning. And development of faith on a personal level is something that also has been around for a while (especially with the Protestant Reformation).

I mean, the core of what Jon is saying hasn't changed. And if you read the Bible as a story rather than a lawbook, it makes sense. Because that means you actually have to read the verses in context rather than isolation.

[Al B. Sure!]

I'm tired of arguing with you and Jon, Imran. It's not going anywhere. I just hope you two realize that your beliefs would be considered heretical by a lot of Christians, especially evangelical Protestants.

[Imran Siddiqui]

And most views of conservative Evangelicals are considered heretical by a lot of Christians, especially Catholics and Orthodox Christians. So?

[Al B. Sure!]

They're called 'fundamentalists' for a reason, Imran. They're Christianity at its essence and most literal form. Scripture taken literally, not in this whole 'context' stuff you're talking about.

[SlowwHand]

Methodists.

[Elok]

And most views of conservative Evangelicals are considered heretical by a lot of Christians, especially Catholics and Orthodox Christians. So?

You're all heretics, every last one of you. Except the atheists and non-christians.

[Elok]

They're called 'fundamentalists' for a reason, Imran. They're Christianity at its essence and most literal form. Scripture taken literally, not in this whole 'context' stuff you're talking about.

If they're Christianity at its essence, America at its essence is a bunch of strict constructionists trying to tell my bosses at the census to count three out of every five black people and leave the "Native American" box out next time.