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If someone can guide me to how to copy the original, I think I'm going to tackle the "mormon" one, although, don't worry, it won't be about Mormons, it'll be about Marmallows, those who worship the all powerful Marshmallow.
Just right-click on it and save it as a picture, import it into just about any program (heck, Paint will even work), and just block out the text with white rectangles and type over it.
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Why won't it save, T? Right-clicking the graphic should bring up the 'save picture as' option - and then tell 'er where you want to put it. That isn't working?
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And I am willing to post any parodies of Chick tracts on my website of anyone has problems getting them up themselves. Come to think of it, I may have some fun with one of the Catholicism ones myself. Or maybe the KJV one...
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That Walter Porter needs to pay attention to his own "Second Mile" essay....*glares at his co-religionist*
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Mr. Still Voices needs to pay better attention to his website. The title that appears at the top of the window is "For Men Willing to Accept ALL of God's Truth". Okay, I'm a woman. Does this mean I'm exempt?
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I'm relieved, Belle. I thought your husband was going to be DEAD by the end of that conversation ...
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How can someone possibly believe that each of our salvation depends on blindly accepting the word of an overbearing born-again Christian who comes out of the blue and says that we must do X and NOT do Y and Z in order to be saved? I mean ... I'd feel patronizing just trying to explain everything that's wrong with that!
Why do I need to do what you say? The Bible says so.
Why should I believe the Bible? Because ... um ... lots of people verified the stories in it.
Really? Where are their testimonies written? In the Bible.
That's convenient. Isn't it beautiful, how simple the Gospel is? Now, will you say the prayer?
I'd rather go to hell. Apparently, that's where intelligent, discerning people go. I don't think I could handle the low grade of conversation in heaven.
The best part is his assertion that the creation HAD to take place in seven 24-hour days, because if it didn't, the plants (day 3) would all have died before the sun (day 4) was created.
So ... The Genesis account is true because its arbitrary time periods line up with its arbitrary order of events?
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No Geoff, the best part was when he said that Adam knew he was doing wrong but ate the fruit anyways, despite the fact that Adam and Eve didn't know right from wrong before they ate the fruit...
"Don't make the mistake of believing that good people go to heaven and bad people go to hell. That's a LIE straight from the devil!"
[from "Happy Halloween" ... emphasis his]
Let me paraphrase that:
"Welcome to my sick little world, where God is a childish, narcissistic bastard who doesn't love you as much as he loves to hear his own name. There is no justice in the world, and the only way to avoid eternal pain is to get in good with the guy in charge."
Was Jack Chick's theology formulated in Stalin's Russia or something? Hmm ... well, he does owe his tracting methods to Chairman Mao ...
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About 1MB. Your might not be able to compress your file enough. I can try hosting it, which would give me an excuse to try and figure out what my non-hotmail e-mail is. Give a few minutes and I'd be happy to host.
"Don't make the mistake of believing that good people go to heaven and bad people go to hell. That's a LIE straight from the devil!"
[from "Happy Halloween" ... emphasis his]
Let me paraphrase that:
"Welcome to my sick little world, where God is a childish, narcissistic bastard who doesn't love you as much as he loves to hear his own name. There is no justice in the world, and the only way to avoid eternal pain is to get in good with the guy in charge."
Honestly, I sort of understand why some people are atheists. These fundi-'mentals' ruin religion for everyone!
LOVE the parody Thor! I think I might write one about pancakes. Not just any pancakes, mind you, but Pat's SPECIAL pancakes.
If only I can figure out how to copy a website onto a paint program and email it.
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I think that instead of making parodies to mock these people--or maybe along with making parodies, because parodies are always fun --we should come up with a well-worded essay in letter format to send. It will probably be futile, but, firstly, it might get a very interesting reply, and, secondly, we might actually shift their fortress of irrational beliefs slightly.
What to other people think?
If we're going to do this, I think we should have a bunch of core ideas that we want to cover, based on the tracks we've read and issues we want to bring forward. We could have several points, I'd personally like to see the following:
Roleplaying games -- I'm an RPG grayface through-and-through, of course I want to bring this up!
A defense of the LDS church -- I'm not a Mormon, but I like the Mormons and envy them in a few ways.
Flaws in faith -- Someone here must be able to point out the holes in scripture on the site. I know they're there, but I'm not versed enough to see them.
Closed worldview -- At least point out that there is no evidence that they're right and everyone else is wrong.
That's all I can think of for now, but I want to know if anyone else is interested. If a bunch of people sign their names, we'd at least be assured of a reply.
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WheatPuppet: I can assure you that people such as this receive hundreds of such letters yearly. It only strengthens their resolve, because it shows them how the "great Satan" feels threatened by their work.
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Entire websites (including images) can be captured by going to File and hitting Save, and usually there's a "save recursive" option which grabs all the images and other files needed to make the page work. Then it's just picking apart HTML and poking at the images a little.
HTML is one of the most non-scary markup languages out there. Just open the html file in a text editor, and you'll figure it out, I bet.
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fugu's right, wheat. Chick and Co. would burn it with all their other satanic paraphrenalia (dice, action figures, Spam, etc). Besides, if they admit to being wrong, their whole world would just collapse, and noone wants that...:::maintains straight face:::
What we should do is fight fire with fire. We should start our own comic. It worked in China, after all. Posts: 4089 | Registered: Apr 2003
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Back to Belle for a second, who has hit on one of my pet peeves... I'd just like to point out that you are actually understating your case by a great deal. In The Four Loves, C. S. Lewis points out that the husband is supposed to give himself up as Christ did for the church-- as lewis extrapolates: "the ideal Christian Marriage is the one most like a crucifixion of the husband" and "the fairer sex need begrudge us neither of these crowns [sexual dominance and headship of the house] for one is of paper and the other of thorns."
Drastic view perhaps, but much more in line with Paul's words than the Southern Baptist Convention.
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TAK, do you actually have the entire Lewis (and Chesterton) canon memorised or do you just have copies ready to hand? I'm actually asking seriously as you quote both of them frequently and at length.
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TAK, I know what you're saying. There is no way I would trade my role in our marriage for my husband's. Things are as they are because they work best.
The conversation about pedicures was just supposed to be funny. I try my little jokes out on people usually before I write them up, to make sure they are as amusing as I think they are. I can be biased, you know. Posts: 14428 | Registered: Aug 2001
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Oh, Belle, it *WAS* funny... it just happened to touch one of my favorite soapboxes... you know, the one where I get to pretend I'm a noble martyr hanging on the cross for my family when what I really want to do is say "bring me another beer, wench!" ;-)
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I could do a few parodies if I knew how these were created. Those "faith-only" bits are seriously irksome.
{Flaws in faith -- Someone here must be able to point out the holes in scripture on the site. I know they're there, but I'm not versed enough to see them.}
Wheatpuppet, I doubt it will do any good, but if you really want to try it I'm up for this.
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Hobbes- I just e-mailed you a parody, if you wouldn't mind posting it. It was a great deal of fun to make.
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