ok i need a religeon

Obā-san

it has to do these things:

1. a strong tradition of hermeneutics

2. no weird evangelizing. if i want to find out more i dont wanna be confronted w/ some dumbass pamphlet talking about how Holy Book Explains Mountain or something. anything can Explain Mountain, begone.

3. i can be gay

Imipolex G

Imicowism

Imipolex G

Discordianism

Salix Babylonika

Wicca?

Obā-san

im not immediately opposed to it but i dont really imagine wicca i need to have strong arguments for and against various interpretations of religious documents/points of dogma, or even as having really strong points of dogma, i get this sort of feeling that it's very personal

Calica

Ask @buttercrispy for the group of Catholic priests who got excommunicated for making women priests

Salix Babylonika

Tamlin said:

im not immediately opposed to it but i dont really imagine wicca i need to have strong arguments for and against various interpretations of religious documents/points of dogma, or even as having really strong points of dogma, i get this sort of feeling that it's very personal

it is

idk what hermeneutics are

Odradek

Jane said:

Tamlin said:

im not immediately opposed to it but i dont really imagine wicca i need to have strong arguments for and against various interpretations of religious documents/points of dogma, or even as having really strong points of dogma, i get this sort of feeling that it's very personal

it is

idk what hermeneutics are

Hermeneutics are the study of the interpretation of texts

Such as what Jews do with the Talmud and commentary on commentary on commentary 

Salix Babylonika

ohhhh

wait is that like nested footnotes? that's great

Tatterhood

Tamlin said:

it has to do these things:

1. a strong tradition of hermeneutics

2. no weird evangelizing. if i want to find out more i dont wanna be confronted w/ some dumbass pamphlet talking about how Holy Book Explains Mountain or something. anything can Explain Mountain, begone.

3. i can be gay

math

Yarrun XIX

We do evangelize though

Hell, we fight Congress to let us teach our perverse way of life in schools. Schools, Lucy

Tatterhood

yeah I guess some idiot probably is saying math explains mountains, huh

Odradek

Yarrun XIX

Oh god I ripped off Calvin and Hobbes

That's twenty Hail Erdős and a pilgrimage to Gauss's grave.

glennmagusharvey

y'know as a serious point i've actually wondered whether my occasional dabbling in catholicism as well as bhakti yoga is (aside from their free food and a lame attempt at finding a social community at school that's unconnected to basically anything else) a sort of experimenting with "retail religion"

like, taking a religion to a dressing room and trying it on

e.g. i've noticed i really like the catholics' messages of humility and charity, though i don't like the dedicating myself to a higher power (especially one whose beliefs/articles of faith/etc. i am not sure i entirely agree with) and i also don't like the harping on abortion

Bee

Odradek said:

The number 5 is the atheist's nightmare.  It has a pull-tab at the top for easy access!

Princess Alice

Man I still remember the rhyme my first kindergarten teacher taught us to write the number 5

"Short neck, tummy fat. Mister Five wears a hat!"

Fossilmaiden

I used to write 8 as two circles. I'm not sure why.

Princess Alice

I think a lot of kids do that when they first learn to write. I at least know that my kindergarten teachers would tell us not to...

buttercrispy

Calica said:

Ask @buttercrispy for the group of Catholic priests who got excommunicated for making women priests

i already corrected him, it was a solitary bishop who ordains lady priests, but their congregations are in Minnesota, but liberal catholicism does not meet critereon three, therefore calica loses.