"Amatuers built the ark. 'Professionals' built the Titanic"

[fishnfla]

Bumper sticker I saw today. Quotation marks around the word professionals really piqued my gourd

Profound? hardly , Delusional? greatly.

I mean every mother's son knows Moses built the ark, jeez :eyes:

Edit: sorry Moses, not Job

[JVS]

1. Moses built the ark?

That's news to me.

[KitchenWitch]

2. I thought it was Ezekiel

[fishnfla]

4. Oh yeah, by cubits,with bull rushes and pillars of salt

jeebus sent the instructions down from Mt Vesuvius, from a burning arbusto plant*

*jack daniels version of the bible

[RPM]

20. yup

wasnt it Kennywood who built the ark?

[jmowreader]

3. Professionals built the Titanic. Your God sank it.

Isn't that what they call natural disasters: acts of God?

[fishnfla]

5. frickin jewish guy killed the titanic!

iceberg

[crispini]

21. SNORK!

Hadn't heard that one. :rofl:

[bridgit]

6. "professionals" are running the war in iraq...

but they are doing so in a manner akin to "amateurs". the extension being that we should turn all-matters-republic-for-which-it-stands over to evangelical christians. i seen that phrase somewhere else & they were trying to draw a line between secular & theologically based skill-sets. the rapidity with which it has cropped up of late; i find it a veiled assault on the separation of church & state somehow but that's just me

[fishnfla]

7. Yeah, I figured that was the angle too

but it makes no sense. I mean an iceberg would've turned the ark to matchsticks.

And if it was so great how come it did not have deck chairs, or an orchestra?:shrug: :shrug:

"rearranging deck chairs on the ark" it would be like that would it not?

[bliss_eternal]

8. I wonder what that bumper sticker's logic

would say about the fact that the Titanic has been located, and the Ark never has...

Things that make you go,'hmmmmmmmmm....'

[NMMNG]

9. Oh ye of little faith

:eyes:




:sarcasm:

[Robeson]

10. Ding, ding, ding. We have a winner....

...nice.

[Tallison]

16. Fundies should avoid logic

and just shoot for consistency.

[ahem]

11. I have a pal who uses that as his email sig, but he's very liberal. Noah

fan or something? He can't stand Bush and he's politically active, but I always scratch my head over his signature line. I suppose he's more religious than I'd have guessed.

[barb162]

12. I think it was Noah (and the ark)

[hfojvt]

15. and I thought Noah was a carpenter

voopah, voopah, voopah. Ding "Noah"
"What?" voopah, voopah, voopah. Ding "Noah"
"Who is this?" "It's the Lord."
"Right.... What do you want?" "I want you to build an ark."
"Right ....What's an ark?"

Apparently Cosby got it wrong because it says in Genesis 9:20 that he was a "man of the soil".

Interesting piece of trivia. The oldest person in the Bible was Methuselah, Noah's grandfather. If you add up the years you find that Methuselah died in the same year as the flood. Which raises the question. Did he die in the flood, or did he die of "natural" causes before the flood?

[barb162]

19. I should buy a bible so I can get all this stuff straight

Also one would be handy when th biblebeaters come to the door

[barb162]

13. Just watch, creationism stickers will be next.

[Touchdown]

14. Yeah, but professionals wouldn't have let the mosquitos on.

:mad:

[truebrit71]

22. Or the cockroaches....

..oh no, wait, they still would have let the roaches on the Ark, otherwise what excuse would Delay have used to get out of 'Nam?

[nickgutierrez]

17. The Titanic was real. The ark wasn't.

Damned fundamentalists.

[hickman1937]

18. God apparently designed the Ark.

Noah built it to his specifications. Was God the amatuer or was Noah?

[Blue-Jay]

23. I don't even know what that's supposed to mean.

[Love Bug]

24. Speaking of the Titanic

I went antiquing this weekend and saw a Titanic cookie jar for sale. It came in two parts (because the ship broke in half, I suppose) -- tackiest thing I think I've ever seen. To me the equivalent would be making a cookie jar out out of the Twin Towers. I don't get why anyone would want to have as a cookie jar something that is a symbol of human suffering and death. I don't get it.

[imperialismispasse]

25. I saw one the other day

I don't remember exactly how it was phrased, but it had all these quotes from the Bible about how education and reading are bad and how Jesus just wants you to be stupid and not question anything. Amazing. I think God wants me to be educated but I guess that's just me.

Hi to everyone, by the way. This is my first post in the lounge (been lurking a little while). I think there are a lot of "in" jokes that I don't get here, but people seem nice so I'm gonna risk it.

[fishnfla]

26. welcome to DU

:hi:

[imperialismispasse]

27. Thanks

[bridgit]

28. hm, that sounds about right, oh by the way...

welcome to du, imperialismispasse; here's hoping you stick around for a time or two :hi: :kick: :patriot:

[imperialismispasse]

30. Thanks, I think I will.

[NewJeffCT]

29. I saw one "Even Darwin Believed"

my response would be, "and....?"

[Felix Mala]

31. One of the saddest American traits is that ignorance is charming.

And something to be proud of.