Backwoods Hillbilly Removed From Show About Backwoods Hillbillies For Being A Backwoods Hillbilly.

[molly bloom]

I'm not Jewish

Falls backwards in stunned disbelief.

Really ? My gog has never been so a- .

[molly bloom]

All I'm taking away from this is that you're a British Ben Kenobi. You'd rather talk about the past than acknowledge that the present is any different.

If that's the case, bend over real low and empty your brainpan of the bowelsoup it contains.

I learned it from smoking weed.

That you confuse a good memory and a love of history with a (non-existent) desire to perpetuate to prejudice is suddenly explained- clearly your head's been fumigated once too often.

[molly bloom]

Yes, Christians are so arrogant as to celebrate the nativity of their Lord and Saviour. You see, Christians actually believe that God came to the Earth, that he was made flesh and that he was born of the Virgin Mary.

Actually not all Christians believe that Yeshua's mother was a virgin, you arrogant sack of dung.

[molly bloom]

I'm still a subject of the Queen, and I'm of English extraction.

How about you try to pretend you're still Canadian then ? And didn't you say your ancestry was Prussian and Irish and Lenin knows what else ?

[DinoDoc]

Actually not all Christians believe that Yeshua's mother was a virgin, you arrogant sack of dung.

By the 2nd Century, they by and large do accept the virgin birth of Jesus.

[molly bloom]

Imagine if people treated Yom Kippur the way they piss on Christmas?

I'm regularly wished 'a Happy Christmas' by Hindus, Sikhs, Muslims, atheists and yes, the occasional Christian. I doubt many Christians are even aware of the date of Yom Kippur, unless they have Jewish friends or live near somewhere like Stamford Hill or Golders Green or Prestwich.

Oh and plenty of kosher (and halal) butchers 'accidentally' and 'providentially' happen to have turkeys for that non-Jewish holiday.

"We should honor them as they honor us".

You betcha.

Pope Benedict XVI has reinstated four bishops from an archconservative breakaway wing of the Roman Catholic Church, a decision that is bound to stir controversy within his own flock. But Saturday's announcement that the Vatican will undo the 20-year schism between the Vatican and the so-called Lefebvrian movement is all the more sensitive because it comes only days after the broadcast of an interview in which British-born Bishop Richard Williamson, one of those Benedict is bringing back into the fold, denies that the Nazi Holocaust ever happened.

"I believe there were no gas chambers," Williamson said. The bishop, who has been accused of anti-Semitism in the past, declared that the historical evidence was "hugely against" the accepted belief that close to 6 million Jews were systematically exterminated as part of Adolf Hitler's Final Solution. Williamson claims that no more than 300,000 Jews died during World War II.

http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1873855,00.html

More better late than never stuff from the caring, sharing Vatican :

The phrase "perfidious Jews," which had appeared in the Good Friday liturgy, was removed by John XXIII from his first Good Friday service as pope in 1959.

The revised version was so much more polite :

Almighty and everlasting God, You do not refuse Your mercy even to the Jews; hear the prayers which we offer for the blindness of that people so that they may acknowledge the light of Your truth, which is Christ, and be delivered from their darkness.

http://www.beliefnet.com/Faiths/Catholic/2007/07/Perfidious-Jews-And-The-Latin-Mass.aspx#

[molly bloom]

By the 2nd Century, they by and large do accept the virgin birth of Jesus.

The operative word being 'believe' not 'believed'. Heard of Unitarians ?

[molly bloom]

How the fuck do you know what date Jesus Christ was born on?

The BVM told him at a coffee morning, over digestive biscuits and some Nescafe.

[molly bloom]

The tradition is that he scourged them. So yeah. Technically true.

Coughs politely :

14 And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting:

15 And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables;

What exactly do you do with a scourge of small cords ?

How do you drive people out of a temple with it ?

If not with it, why make it ?

As a fashion accessory ?

This is supposedly your son of god- allegedly with the power to transform materials, to increase the amount of food available miraculously, to even restore life to those dead for days.

And here we see him having a hissy fit and throwing himself about, like a belligerent drunk at throwing out time. Tsk tsk, Yeshua- take a chill pill baby.

[molly bloom]

I wasn't talking about then. I was talking about now. Would we have this whole extravaganza without the Christian faith in Jesus and the celebration of his nativity? No. It's not the pagans driving this.

Are Christian churches found to be built over former pagan sites of worship ? A simple yes or no will suffice.

Is Easter named after a pagan god (in English that is) ?

How about St Valentine's Day- what pagan feasts might that 'coincide' with ?

[molly bloom]

Most 19th century English protestants considered Catholicism to be paganism.

They did ? Where's your evidence for this ?

Would this be those 19th Century English Protestants who happily erected 'authentic' Christian Christmas trees (see Germanic pagan myths) and brought in Yule logs & yew branches (see Germanic pagan myths, again) ?

[kentonio]

You say their contract has a clause for this. So, then. Provide the proof of it.

First of all, does Phil's contract actually state this? I see no evidence for it.

You have no idea how ****ing stupid you sound right now. Any employee of a sizeable media company pretty much without fail has written into their contract clauses about not harming the reputation of that company. That's the case in Europe where we have considerably stronger employment protections, so the idea that it wouldn't be the same in America is pretty goddamn dumb.

Media companies are hugely defensive about their public relations and reputations. If their company name gets tainted with homophobic or racist statements by their employees then they risk being hit by boycotts by customers, lose large advertising clients and a whole raft of other financial penalties that have a very real impact on their bottom line.

Please try and avoid making stupid statements about things you have no knowledge of and clearly do not understand.

[Guynemer]

STOP QUOTING BEN
STOP ARGUING WITH BEN
IGNORE BEN
YOU WILL NEVER EVER CHANGE HIS MIND
HE WILL NEVER ADMIT HE IS WRONG
YOU ARE WASTING YOUR TIME

[kentonio]

Very good point. My New Years resolution is to never quote the dumbass again. Thanks for the reminder.

[Kidlicious]

Some people are saying he's not even a redneck. This is a publicity stunt and he's going to be back on the show which isn't a real reality show. They're all yuppies.