Boy, those Jesus Freaks love raping kids, don’t they? Cloak it any way you like, this is rape, this is condoning rape, this is condoning and committing rape in the name of a god, and this is VILE STUFF!This is stupid. This is barbaric. This is animalistic. This is primitive.
ST. GEORGE, Utah (Sept. 14) – A former follower of a polygamous sect leader claims she was acting to preserve her eternal salvation when she obeyed his command and married her cousin at age 14. Now 21, the woman was married in a 2001 religious ceremony to her 19-year-old cousin, then followed the counsel of Warren Jeffs to submit to her husband “mind, body and soul.” Jeffs, 51, leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, went on trial Thursday on two counts of rape as an accomplice for using his church authority to coerce the marriage. The bride was the first witness in the trial and was expected to return to the stand Friday. On Thursday, she testified that Jeffs has long been an authority figure in her life. In 2001, he was a high-ranking church counselor and had been the girl’s teacher and principal at an FLDS-run school, teaching children principles of the faith. In 2002, Jeffs became church president, or “prophet,” succeeding his father. “The prophet was as God to us. He was God on Earth and his counselors were pretty much the same, so they had jurisdiction over us,” she said. The Associated Press generally does not name people alleging sexual abuse. Prosecutors played a tape of a marriage lesson recorded by Jeffs in 1997 to emphasize the point that obedience by women of the faith was expected. “Give yourself to him, that means full obedience to righteous principles. No half way, no holding back,” Jeffs said on the tape.
Oh, and whomever gets the “easy as 3″ comment, you get 100 points.
As opposed to easy as 3.1416…?
Score!
I wonder how many xtians would get that one (pi being approximated to 3)?
Good summary st L. Now it all makes sense.
Imforgvn turned me Christian so, lemme get this staight: The trinity is pie?
That’s pi-ous.
No, The bible states that the circumference of a circle is 3 times its diameter. A really, imprecise value for a supposedly perfect book written by god. I think god should have taken more math. lessons when he was just a young tyke god.
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The Sea?
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And the xtians wonder why we laugh!
I hate to play Devil’s Advocate (oh, the irony), but that’s not a bulletproof argument against the Bible. The Bible does not mention the width of the rim of the bowl, as such you can’t actually defer anything about the ratio of the circumference to the diameter.
There are better proofs of irregularity elsewhere.
It’s also possible that God disapproves of accuracy and as such desired the numbers to be rounded to the nearest 5.
God must have been a poor engineer.
Last time I checked the rim was the outside diameter of something. Standard Engineering lingo. That’s the way I read it anyway. If you want to make it a vague argument it is even more proof that god is mot only mathematically incompetent but is also not really god at explaining things in a clear and concise manner, a bit of a dummy really. No wonder all those Xians out there look up to him.