"You're going to hell!"

[morgana]

First Evangelical Church of Brimstone, Bar and Grill . . .

[Geek King]

First Evangelical Church of Brimstone, Bar and Grill . . .

There is actually a song by Tim Wilson called "The First Baptist Bar and Grill"

[Chromatix]

There's also a Hell in Norway. I like to dig it up on my iPhone's weather app whenever it's appropriate to talk about Hell freezing over.

[Frantic Freddie]

....and being as she loved the Osmonds...

I've always had very unreligious thoughts about Marie

[Jester]

I heard someone asked someone once what to call the city and the second someone said, "I don't care. Call it hell if you want!"

There are a few amusing town naming stories, and some of them are even true.

Perhaps one of the more famous ones is Tombstone, Arizona. Rather than attempt to put the story into my own words, I'll quote from the Arizona Vacation Guide:

Although the Gunfight at OK Corral is the most famous historical attraction of Tombstone Arizona, it was the tenacity and bravery of Edward Lawrence Schieffelin that spawned the town of Tombstone and the unusual way it got its name. Schieffelin was a weathered prospector whose rugged appearance was well beyond his young age. Having prospected throughout the west for many years, he accompanied members of the U.S. Calvary from Southern California dispatched to Fort Huachuca in southeastern Arizona to protect settlers from the marauding Apaches.

Everyday for many years, Ed Schieffelin would venture out into the hills and mountains prospecting for the riches of silver or gold ore deposits. Each day he would brave the elements and the Apaches where many before him would never return. His soldier friends told him many times that if “he kept fooling around out there amongst the Apaches, the only rock he would come home with would be his tombstone”.

Then one day in 1877 he discovered a silver ore outcropping that would be the beginning of his dream bonanza. He would name the mining district “Tombstone” which would also become the name of the “Town Too Tough To Die”.

Basically, Shieffelin took what people told him and stuck it right back in their faces when he proved them wrong. How do you not love that?

Okay, enough of that diversion. Now, back to idiots who pronounce judgment on where we are going in the afterlife!

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Basically, Shieffelin took what people told him and stuck it right back in their faces when he proved them wrong. How do you not love that?

Oh, awesome! I DO love that!

First thing I thought of was "Led Zeppelin."

[Arwyn Q]

CL: "If you just get rid of that thing, repent and let Jesus Christ into your heart, you will be saved. Jesus loves you even if you don't realise it.

Me: "Yeah sure." *reciept is printing.

CL: "I will be praying for you."

And this is where I would quote Luke 9:5 to them and get a rather smug look on my face. I'm not of the same religious persuasion as this lady, but I still know her holy book rather well. Pretty good for a heathen.

[Jester]

First thing I thought of was "Led Zeppelin."

Similar idea, yes. And do you know who told them that their band would go over "like a lead balloon," thus inspiring the eventual band name? TRIVIA QUESTION!

I'm not of the same religious persuasion as this lady, but I still know her holy book rather well. Pretty good for a heathen.

It is such FUN to quote Scripture to the holy rollers, isn't it?

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Similar idea, yes. And do you know who told them that their band would go over "like a lead balloon," thus inspiring the eventual band name? TRIVIA QUESTION!


:

Crap.

Once upon a time I did, but now since you had to go and ask me, I can't remember.

[Little Retail Rabbit]

I've always had very unreligious thoughts about Marie

You can't be so impulsive, people have gotten into a lot of trouble that way!

"Marie?"
"Yes Donny?"
"We can NOT tell mom!"



(Cookie for whoever gets that)

To those who were saying I shouldn't have bothered trying to reason with the woman, well, I know better now ^^;; This was a couple of years ago mind, and I naively thought she just might be a little scared. Recently though, on a flight, I ended up talking to a very nervous woman (she even held my hand because she hated the take-off and landing) who was so sweet, she told me to just talk to her about anything to distract her. She asked me about my engagement ring (which is silver and has a haematite stone made to look like a black pearl) and then about my necklace (yup, that same one!). Her face gave away a sort of...suspicious, frightened look, so I reassured her that its nothing to be afraid of and just gave her some very basic facts. Then I emphasised the grandfather connection (which ultimately got us back onto families) and she felt so much better. I do prefer to give people the benefit of the doubt on this, as there is so much misunderstanding. I guess in this situation, she and I had already been talking for an hour and she had probably decided I was already a nice person being as I was holding her hand and let her use one of my drinks vouchers.

[Tama]

"What do you see here?"

2 Ds and and an F? >_>

I've never tried to reason with these people...I used to get pamphlets a lot...

[slavetotheman]

And this is where I would quote Luke 9:5 to them and get a rather smug look on my face. I'm not of the same religious persuasion as this lady, but I still know her holy book rather well. Pretty good for a heathen.

Not quite sure I see how that's relevant, seeing as how "shake the dust from your feet" was an instruction from Jesus to the apostles upon sending them out to evangelize... so it seems to me that if anything, she, seeing herself as the one spreading the word, would be the one to shake the dust from her feet upon leaving the store Were you thinking of a different passage maybe?

[Tama]

Given all the interpretations of that, and how many bible versions there are...I dunno.

[CrazedClerkthe2nd]

You can't be so impulsive, people have gotten into a lot of trouble that way!

"Marie?"
"Yes Donny?"
"We can NOT tell mom!"



(Cookie for whoever gets that)

Family Guy?

[Andara Bledin]

I wear a pentagram, pentacle, whatever you want to call it.

Fun facts: The French word "pentacle" was used to refer to anything that had five points. A similar term, "pentacol," refers to an amulet hung from the neck and has nothing to do with fives, but is the same root from which we get the word "pendant." (not to be confused with "pedant," which I'm sure you're all familiar with ) While "pentagram" refers to any form created with five equal lines and can include pentagons, a "pentagon" is a figure with five equal angles, indicating that the sides should not intersect.

Note: A preacher recently told me God doesn't give a damn what jewellery I wear and only what is in my heart .

See? Now there's a man (woman?) who knows what it's really about.

...when the wife of the couple casually says, "I mean...I DO think you all are going to hell but it's nice that we can sit here and talk and have fun and such!”

One thing to make note of is that she didn't make a statement that you were going to hell, merely stating her opinion on the matter. A small thing, I know, but worth marking, nonetheless.

I said something on the lines of, "Well, you have your opinion, and I have mine--" and then he says, "Yeah, but you're wrong." And he said it in a flat, matter-of-fact way that very clearly stated he wasn't joking around.

I've gotten that from a co-worker, nearly. He really hates admitting that a couple of hippie-looking types know a lot more about certain political issues than he ever thought there was to know. He has a very bad habit of listening to and accepting at face value the statements from the talking heads on his side of the aisle, most of which have displayed various signs of batshit insanity over the last several years.

I've gotten the whole flat "you're wrong" thing from both sides of the religious aisle. From god-pushers who equate, "Religion is a private matter," to mean, "I'm a dirty heathen and I spit on your religion," despite the fact that I am, myself, Christian, to the atheists who are so sure that they're right that they can't even conceive of the possibility that they might not be.

At least once, I clearly caused one guy's faith to be shaken. (That was rather impressive, actually.)

I once managed to convince someone to change sides during a debate regarding the topic of abortion.

Of course, it probably didn't hurt that everybody on the other side of the debate had been reduced to personal attacks and a repeated mantra of "nuh-uh" to just about everything I posted. It certainly wasn't making their side of the fence look like a place rational individuals would want to be associated with.

The only religious intolerance I ever had to deal with was when I used to wear and Ankh all the time.

My aura of "don't mess with this chick" must be protecting me from those types. I've been wearing an ankh for the last 20+ years (since before I was 20), and the only people who have ever mentioned it were complimenting me on it. The first one is a cheap pewter trinket that started off with plastic 'crystals' in it. The current one is hand-shaped, wire-wrapped silver bars and fairly unique.

The pentacle is meant to ward off evil in any form, to defend a gate, location, or person.

It's the circle. Circles of any sort are protective symbols.

I've always had very unreligious thoughts about Marie

I had an almost-SC moment with her, but she managed to pull herself out of SC territory with a goodly amount of grace.

... I'll quote from the Arizona Vacation Guide:

You'd think that a professional tourism website would manage to spell "cavalry" the correct way. >_<

^-.-^