tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post8301734326036184584..comments2024-03-29T11:20:48.180+00:00Comments on Rosa Rubicondior: Silly Bible - The Fishy Tale Of JonahRosa Rubicondiorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06063268216781988588noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-3601895391263660872018-02-01T19:46:42.882+00:002018-02-01T19:46:42.882+00:00"that a man swallowed with his clothes on sho..."that a man swallowed with his clothes on should have existed in the inside of a fish."<br /><br />That's the beauty of Art: I have a collection of Jonah Jaypegs where in 28 pictures the old zoophiliac is depicted naked. Then there are quite a few where his cloak/shawl/loincloth is on the verge of slipping off. But these are the homo-erotic versions, so they don't count.<br />Religious art is a feast for the male2male oriented (and for those who fervently deny such interest). The Cain+Abel episode (my favorite bible subject, seriously); delicious. Jacob+Angel, hot! I HATE the St Sebastian soft SM pederasty, so I don't collect those.<br />But many of these paintings and sketches and sculptures (from ancient days up till the 21st c) are very beautiful. I would give a link to my art blog if the non-religious posts weren't so, um, shockingly anti-taboo.<br />dedeurshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09775849527808927607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-68087505926629101972018-01-29T21:45:18.761+00:002018-01-29T21:45:18.761+00:00Of course! I wonder how the author knew that lots...Of course! I wonder how the author knew that lots of fish change sex when they swallowed a man and had him living inside them for three days.<br />Rosa Rubicondiorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06063268216781988588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-67092472168749495022017-06-27T15:52:07.342+01:002017-06-27T15:52:07.342+01:00Nononono, Anonymous Sept 2015. If you stick to the...Nononono, Anonymous Sept 2015. If you stick to the true word of Jesus, you are obliged to stick to the literally true word of His Father too. And that makes no sense, as Rosa points out. So I advise you to just believe in an almighty deity who talks to you and watches over you personally (your conscience and sense, I call it), and throw the bible and all other biblical rubbish into the trash can. He who art in Heaven didn't write them. Prophets and spiritual scholars did, and both are humans. And you can't trust humans. Humans, in case you never noticed, can be mentally unstable, irrational and quite manipulative. But then, they are not God. Right? <br />Maybe God should ask Himself why He did create Man. Or rather, why He never immediately considered to un-create them again. Is He a masochist, or what? dedeurshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09775849527808927607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-63513051479764174922016-07-26T01:45:18.100+01:002016-07-26T01:45:18.100+01:00I love that the anonymous authors of the bible man...I love that the anonymous authors of the bible managed to stumble across the fact that there are several species of fish that do change sex, but only got that part right through bad writing. Even when they get it right they're wrong!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00153220683883288024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-82476415895197250332015-09-19T10:27:59.201+01:002015-09-19T10:27:59.201+01:00How about dealing with the content of the blog ins...How about dealing with the content of the blog instead of spamming with smugly self-satisfied, evidence-free condescension?Rosa Rubicondiorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06063268216781988588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-8342223622664253912015-09-19T10:26:06.444+01:002015-09-19T10:26:06.444+01:00Any more anonymous preaching will be removed. Plea...Any more anonymous preaching will be removed. Please try not to be a parasite on this blog even if you have nothing else to offer.Rosa Rubicondiorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06063268216781988588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-44320787055556402362015-09-19T10:23:54.927+01:002015-09-19T10:23:54.927+01:00How about dealing with the content of the blog ins...How about dealing with the content of the blog instead of spamming with smugly self-satisfied, evidence-free condescension?Rosa Rubicondiorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06063268216781988588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-73591005389485390172015-09-17T13:17:11.778+01:002015-09-17T13:17:11.778+01:00I would consider myself quite a rational person. H...I would consider myself quite a rational person. Having studied philosophy and sociology as majors and going on to do a degree in education (now a high school/college teacher). And, I would have to say, before I became a Christian (at 21) I would have agreed with most of the comments here regarding the stories of the bible (ie being fables, myths, children's stories, nonsense, etc). But I would now agree strongly with CS Lewis's: "I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."<br /><br />It is obviously a long discussion, but in short: Your presuppositions, which you hold on to ever so firmly, are limited to simply a closed system, and by doing this you exclude miracles for no good reason (rather like one observes an orange (fruit) and reasons that that is all to the orange; that is, the shape itself. In doing so, one excludes the inside flesh of the orange). <br /><br />When one encounters Jesus, his or her eyes are open to the Truth ("I am the way, the truth and the life" said Jesus-- John 14:6). If only dimly (1 Corinthians 13:12). <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-2231178195557397902015-04-23T12:09:17.645+01:002015-04-23T12:09:17.645+01:00Apparently not...Apparently not...Rosa Rubicondiorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06063268216781988588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-32162190610353254282014-10-12T18:42:06.043+01:002014-10-12T18:42:06.043+01:00Yes, provided you stick to the subject of the blog...Yes, provided you stick to the subject of the blog, manage to avoid abuse and gratuitous obscenities, debate like an adult and don't imagine your 'faith' gives you a special privilege to parasitise the blog for the purpose of telling people what to believe and/or threatening them if they don't conform, like preachers do.<br /><br />Have you anything to say worth posting?Rosa Rubicondiorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06063268216781988588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-31505056465086816052014-10-11T14:51:42.142+01:002014-10-11T14:51:42.142+01:00Can anyone disagree with you and have their views ...Can anyone disagree with you and have their views posted?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13347969076810302395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-74636593830834280422014-06-15T16:23:26.388+01:002014-06-15T16:23:26.388+01:00Questions such as these I have seen discussed by P...<i>Questions such as these I have seen discussed by Pagans amidst loud laughter, and with great scorn</i>.<br /><br />I can just imagine that. Those pagans must have been similar in spirit to the atheist bloggers of today. Nice to know there have always been people who saw this drivel for what it is.Infidel753https://www.blogger.com/profile/10965786814334886696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-26504979274894165752014-06-14T23:22:49.647+01:002014-06-14T23:22:49.647+01:00Well, according to Genesis, Adam & Eve hid fro...Well, according to Genesis, Adam & Eve hid from God and he had to come down to the Garden of Eden and call for them because he didn't know where they were. :-)Rosa Rubicondiorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06063268216781988588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-48023418416108565492014-06-14T23:09:12.200+01:002014-06-14T23:09:12.200+01:00Yea, verily, 'tis a tale most fishy; but hath ...Yea, verily, 'tis a tale <a href="http://bill-purkayastha.blogspot.in/2012/08/jonah-and-big-fish.html?m=1" rel="nofollow">most fishy</a>; but hath Jonah perhaps a prophet motive? <br /><br />But Christian apologetists claim the point of the exercise is that you can "run from God but you can't hide". That begs the question of how you can run from an omnipresent god anyway. Bill the Butcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08436195659154078021noreply@blogger.com