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Coolest thing ever in a religious text
« on: September 29, 2005, 12:22:47 PM »
Man-eating Seals
Yeah, seals


Apparently a christian baptizes herself in a bucket of man-eating seals (not eels) when she is to be fed to hungry lions and bears and the lioness protecting her is killed. This is in the apocryphal book of the Acts of Paul.
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Re: Coolest thing ever in a religious text
« Reply #1 on: September 29, 2005, 12:34:40 PM »
Liar.
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Re: Coolest thing ever in a religious text
« Reply #2 on: September 29, 2005, 12:36:41 PM »
I am *so* not making it up.

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/rs/courses/rs135/thecla.html

Check out verse 34
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Re: Coolest thing ever in a religious text
« Reply #3 on: September 29, 2005, 12:50:35 PM »
/me washes his cursor in turpentine
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Re: Coolest thing ever in a religious text
« Reply #4 on: September 29, 2005, 01:26:28 PM »
The only man-eating seals I know of live in the Antarctic.
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Re: Coolest thing ever in a religious text
« Reply #5 on: September 29, 2005, 02:26:21 PM »
Well, you made up the bucket part.
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Re: Coolest thing ever in a religious text
« Reply #6 on: September 29, 2005, 04:31:57 PM »
ok, yeah fine. But the man-eating seals were the cool thing.

Though I suppose they're woman-eating seals. Maybe they don't like men at all. We'll have to drop a male Christian in with them to see if the audience fears for him as well.
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Re: Coolest thing ever in a religious text
« Reply #7 on: September 29, 2005, 09:00:01 PM »
*Archon reaffirms his agnosticism.*
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Re: Coolest thing ever in a religious text
« Reply #8 on: September 30, 2005, 09:11:19 AM »
see, the problem with that decision, archon, is this is a book of "scripture" that no one believes in. It's apocryphal because people, thousands of years ago, didn't know what seals really were, so it wasn't incredible when someone put that in. However, it fell out of favor well over a millenium and a half ago.
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Re: Coolest thing ever in a religious text
« Reply #9 on: September 30, 2005, 02:53:35 PM »
Archon, you should read Mere Christianity.
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Re: Coolest thing ever in a religious text
« Reply #10 on: September 30, 2005, 03:49:07 PM »
I reaffirmed my agnosticism so I wouldn't be a candidate for your experiment to see if the seals were man-eating. It wasn't because of an added reason to disbelieve Christianity's teachings.

JadeKnight, I will add it to my list. I currently have about 12 books that I have started reading or want to read, but I will get around to it eventually. Just out of curiosity, why do you recommend it?
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Re: Coolest thing ever in a religious text
« Reply #11 on: September 30, 2005, 03:55:28 PM »
oh. that's not what I was thinking at all.

Your idea's much better.
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Re: Coolest thing ever in a religious text
« Reply #12 on: September 30, 2005, 08:18:38 PM »
Well, you can read my review.  =รพ

No, but Lewis was an Atheist who turned Christian, and it's got exactly that point of view in mind.  You are, in essence, his target audience.  Or you would be if you lived in England 50 years ago.

And, honestly, it clears up a lot of things about what people often believe and what Christianity is really about.
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Re: Coolest thing ever in a religious text
« Reply #13 on: September 30, 2005, 11:46:45 PM »
Though I will probably learn a thing or two, I doubt that it will actually make a difference in my opinions on religion.
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Re: Coolest thing ever in a religious text
« Reply #14 on: October 01, 2005, 12:56:37 AM »
Even if it doesn't, it should be educational.
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