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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Does God have a roll in Thanksgiving?"
This is the headline, in the editorial page of our local weekly newspaper.
Our award winning newspaper, as our editor likes to point out.
The headline!
Wounded Bear
(58,662 posts)0rganism
(23,955 posts)i smell instant communion!
Solly Mack
(90,769 posts)so, you'd certainly need a roll..and some gravy.
PatrickforO
(14,576 posts)But as to the role of the rolls, they were a sidelight to the turkey, stuffing and mashed potatoes.
And, yes, to my mind, God has a ROLE in Thanksgiving, however you may conceive of God. I'm not sure God really likes rolls, though...
PJMcK
(22,037 posts)Toasted with a shmeer and lox.
JDC
(10,128 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,719 posts)but I'm guessing He doesn't care much for those boring crescent rolls.
njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)How many deaths have been caused by religion? Here's a list of religiously motivated wars and genocides and their death tolls. Let me know if I missed any!
The Crusades: 6,000,000
Thirty Years War: 11,500,000
French Wars of Religion: 4,000,000
Second Sudanese Civil War: 2,000,000
Lebanese Civil War: 250,000
Muslim Conquests of India: 80,000,000
Congolese Genocide (King Leopold II): 13,000,000
Armenian Genocide: 1,500,000
Rwandan Genocide: 800,000
Eighty Years' War: 1,000,000
Nigerian Civil War: 1,000,000
Great Peasants' Revolt: 250,000
First Sudanese Civil War: 1,000,000
Jewish Diaspora (Not Including the Holocaust): 1,000,000
The Holocaust (Jewish and Homosexual Deaths): 6,500,000
Islamic Terrorism Since 2000: 150,000
Iraq War: 500,000
US Western Expansion (Justified by "Manifest Destiny" :20,000,000
Atlantic Slave Trade (Justified by Christianity): 14,000,000
Aztec Human Sacrifice: 80,000
AIDS deaths in Africa largely due to opposition to condoms: 30,000,000
Spanish Inquisition: 5,000
TOTAL: 195,035,000 deaths in the name of religion.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)into a well sealed, enclosed area with sticks, stones and knives to duke it out. Sorta like Escape from New York.
I bet the CO2 levels would actually start to decrease...lol.
njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)Xolodno
(6,395 posts)I think your off a bit on the Crusades and Armenian Genocide. Plus the Jewish holocaust by the Nazi's was less about religion and more about state sanctioned racism and hatred. The Jewish people in Germany could have been pro-Nazi, and would have still suffered the same fate..just because. Much like certain elements in the GOP will never consider people of color, even if they vote their way...citizens.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Pretty sure God is celiac.
Dr Hobbitstein
(6,568 posts)Who am I to deny someone a roll?
malaise
(269,026 posts)Efilroft Sul
(3,579 posts)malaise
(269,026 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)malaise
(269,026 posts)The thing is these idiots think they're superior to me on the basis of race.
oasis
(49,388 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,692 posts)Kath2
(3,074 posts)Now an atheist.
God gets no rolls. God gets no place in my life.
GoCubsGo
(32,085 posts)Lots and lots of stuffing. And, three slices of pie with a mountain of whipped cream. He's God, and he doesn't have to worry about all of that going to hips.
DBoon
(22,366 posts)so God is involved in the bakery business, and probably could provide rolls
syringis
(5,101 posts)Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)Or even like Chaucer.
We don't talk like Shakespeare or Chaucer simply because generation after generation people can't be bothered to learn "correct" grammar and spelling. Most people today don't even know the difference between "thee", "thy", "thine", and "thou", or how to correctly spell "felaweshipe" (They spell it "fellowship" these days, the ignorant fools).
Fact: If previous generations had "followed the rules" English would still be properly spelled this way:
At nyght was come into that hostelrye
Wel nyne and twenty in a compaignye,
Of sondry folk, by aventure yfalle
In felaweshipe, and pilgrimes were they alle,
That toward caunterbury wolden ryde.
There are two things that are always true of the English language: 1) It's always changing, and 2) the older generation is always complaining about the changes, calling them ignorant (which, of course, they are). But if you're going to call a change "ignorant" don't forget to call all the changes we, ourselves, have embraced as "ignorant" as well.
Cuthbert Allgood
(4,921 posts)Chaucer actually used they as a singular pronoun, so that's cool, anyway.
Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)Any changes from this point on are simply errors that must be corrected.
(And Brits, of course, will need intensive re-education in proper English.)
(And in Oz they don't really speak it at all any more.)
Sancho
(9,070 posts)madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)Sessions cements his place in hell.
Beartracks
(12,814 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,321 posts)dubyadiprecession
(5,711 posts)Which would seem very progressive for that time. Except, maybe the dinner was an excuse to try and convert the Indians to christianity?
Codeine
(25,586 posts)Omnipotent. Immortal. But still, he never learns.
VermontKevin
(1,473 posts)Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)Guess I know where I am headed...
Kath2
(3,074 posts)Burning the rolls is an original sin.
bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)ailsagirl
(22,897 posts)Last edited Mon Dec 11, 2017, 07:07 PM - Edit history (1)
And they weren't referring to bears!
Hekate
(90,708 posts)Thank the Lord and pass the butter!
herding cats
(19,565 posts)Which begs the question, when does God celebrate his Thanksgiving, and what exactly is he celebrating? Also, does he serve turkey, duck, ham or is he vegan and only eats tofurkey?
I see one heck of a rebuttal letter in your future... Have fun!!
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)He doesn't allow them anymore.
turned out, when they were allowed, people used them to complain about the county/city/local admins. and pointed to Things That Need Improving.
editor decided to replace the letters with his own "thumbs Up" and "thumbs down" segment.
the hilarity ensued at how much of a stretch he made to find things for each category, once a week.
( I really believe he drinks..it's the only explanation for some of the things I have read)
herding cats
(19,565 posts)Judging by your sampling of their skills, I'd not allow any rebuttals either if I were them.
Maybe start a local FB account where you can counter their lunacy and tag them? There has to be a way to force them into being accountable publicly for their words.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)I sneak in some stuff occasionally,
kwassa
(23,340 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)Along with tow the line, there instead of their, web sights, here here! instead of hear hear...and it goes on and on.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Even in news stories, using "reign in" a person, for example, instead of "rein in".
Surprisingly, "rain" is still being used as it should.
For now.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Ive seen that too.
And I just saw horde used instead of hoard
Wounded Bear
(58,662 posts)MineralMan
(146,317 posts)for Thanksgiving.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)1637 - Following the burning of the Pequots by the Puritans Cotton Mather
expressed gratefulness to the Lord that they had "sent 600 heathen souls to hell."
Ben Franklin observed that rum should be regarded as the agent of Providence
"to extripate these savages in order to make room for the cultivators of the earth."
Senator Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri: "the whites should supplant the indian
because Whites use the land according to the intentions of the Creator."
Contact population estimate for USA is 12 to 25 million.
1850 Native American population was 250,000.
librechik
(30,674 posts)FarPoint
(12,409 posts)No....
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)since I consume so little of it. I've seen atrocious spelling errors in online media, even news sources like CBS that have the budget to hire competent people to check things over. I used to get riled over the grammatical errors, but they're so commonplace that I just ignore them, because there are so many severe spelling errors.
At least a spell check program would have let that headline fly, the errors I've seen lately would not survive any sort of error-checking software.
Chiyo-chichi
(3,580 posts)Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)I don't believe in letting anyone go hungry, even if they will let people go hungry.