Religion: Catholics, Episcopalians, Atheists, All Are Welcome!

[LynahFan]

The FSM finds your lack of faith disturbing.

[Kepler]

It is possible there is one non-toxic religion.

[burd]

I completely whiffed on this one. I was mixing up this song with Norman Greenbaum’s Spirit in the Sky.

I don't think you wiffed. I thought you were referring to Spirit in the Sky and made the appropriate comment that some groups that sang songs with christian themes were not all that religious.

I also completely get the point TC made in her post. On the meaning of "alright," though, she does not have the advantage of old age to inform her how that word was used back in those days. And that's a good thing for her.

[St. Clown]

I remember it as a Doobie Brothers song, more than a Byrds song. I also think those of us who are OLD think of the words "just alright" as being more than passive approval.

I completely whiffed on this one. I was mixing up this song with Norman Greenbaum’s Spirit in the Sky.

[burd]

Greenbaum was a funny guy. He was a Jewish man who, for whatever reason, became enthralled by gospel band music. He never converted, but just really enjoyed the music.

I remember it as a Doobie Brothers song, more than a Byrds song. I also think those of us who are OLD think of the words "just alright" as being more than passive approval.

[St. Clown]

I love the song "Jesus Is Just Alright."
He isn't great, he isn't terrible, he's just alright.

Greenbaum was a funny guy. He was a Jewish man who, for whatever reason, became enthralled by gospel band music. He never converted, but just really enjoyed the music.

[Kepler]

All I ask for is a sign.

[MissThundercat]

I love the song "Jesus Is Just Alright."
He isn't great, he isn't terrible, he's just alright.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

It's like... you read something. A book. An article. Whatever. And then pull out the most backwards, irrelevant, ridiculous lesson possible from it. Do words mean the same to you as they do to the rest of the English speakers here?

He knows what Francis meant. Sic is trolling and doing a bad job of it, per his usual MO.

[Kepler]

The Pope says the rosary is "armament" in a "fight", albeit a spiritual one.

People here tell me armament is dangerous.

Mandatory.

[Swansong]

Que?

Responding to Sic, who is being relentlessly and purposefully obtuse.

[The Sicatoka]

As Pope Francis said in a 2020 address, “There is no path to holiness … without spiritual combat,” and Francis is only one of many Church officials who have endorsed the idea of the rosary as an armament in that fight.

The Pope says the rosary is "armament" in a "fight", albeit a spiritual one.

People here tell me armament is dangerous.

[MissThundercat]

It's like... you read something. A book. An article. Whatever. And then pull out the most backwards, irrelevant, ridiculous lesson possible from it. Do words mean the same to you as they do to the rest of the English speakers here?

Que?

[Swansong]

It's like... you read something. A book. An article. Whatever. And then pull out the most backwards, irrelevant, ridiculous lesson possible from it. Do words mean the same to you as they do to the rest of the English speakers here?

[The Sicatoka]

Who knew my departed mom's rosary on my nightstand was so powerful and dangerous. < rolleyes >

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/ar...weapon/671122/