Please pray

[MrFun]

Don't you mean ... "are safe"? (prompted by Eloks other thread about Nazis, which has somehow remained more classy than this thread.)

piss off

[BlackCat]

I have to admit that I hoped that the kid was attended by professional docs and that they used their professional skills at their best to save the boy.

Hope that I haven't offended anyone by that

[Elok]

Your inability to grasp the point does not offend me.

[Dr Strangelove]

I take it that's in reaction to my nephew getting better, Doc? It's hard to tell with such an eclectic smiley collection...

Sure, yeah, that what it is.

Actually it was a reply to dannubis.

[loinburger]

Let's say that a loved one was ill (for the sake of simplifying the pronouns we'll say that this loved one is male), and at the hospital you say to the doctor "please do whatever you can for him." Later, after the doctor performs surgery or administers antibiotics or whatever, your loved one makes a dramatic recovery. You say to the doctor "thank you for curing him with your wealth of medical knowledge," and he replies "it also helped that I sacrificed a goat, hail Satan!" Would it help matters if the doctor clarified that he then cooked and ate the goat so as to avoid wasting any food? If there was leftover goat, would you eat it (assume that the doctor is a fairly good cook)?

[Elok]

Who's that question addressed to, Loin? If it's me, I guess I'm fine with it, provided he didn't torture the goat, and his odd religious beliefs didn't cause him to do anything that actually endangered my relative. Re: eating the goat, I believe St. Paul actually says it doesn't matter if you eat food sacrificed to idols, provided doing so doesn't lead others to believe you worship idols yourself. But I probably would be too weirded out to try it.

[Dr Strangelove]

Uhhhhhh... Elok, are you aware of Loin's health history?

[Lorizael]

Who's that question addressed to, Loin? If it's me, I guess I'm fine with it, provided he didn't torture the goat, and his odd religious beliefs didn't cause him to do anything that actually endangered my relative. Re: eating the goat, I believe St. Paul actually says it doesn't matter if you eat food sacrificed to idols, provided doing so doesn't lead others to believe you worship idols yourself. But I probably would be too weirded out to try it.

What's wrong with torturing goats?

[Elok]

Uhhhhhh... Elok, are you aware of Loin's health history?

No. Is this based on a true story?

Lori, torture would constitute cruelty to animals and thus a reason to object.

[Guynemer]

Torturing goats is definitely wrong.

However, torturing gingers is fine, because they have no souls.

[Lorizael]

What if torturing goats makes them taste better?

[Guynemer]

Hmmm.

Depends on the torture, I'd say. Are we talking waterboarding? Stress positions? The rack?

[Lorizael]

Waterboarding -- but they're Afghan goats.

[Elok]

How much taste improvement do you get per Standard Goat Agony Unit? This is a question of efficient morality.

[Lorizael]

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