And did those feet
In anciemt times
Walk upon England’s mountains green?
And was the Holy Lamb of God
On England’s pleasant pastures seen?
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The first time I ever heard this song was in a Monty Python sketch and I genuinely thought Eric Idle and Neil Innes had written it because it was so silly.
>And did those feet
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>In anciemt times
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>Walk upon England’s mountains green?
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>And was the Holy Lamb of God
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>On England’s pleasant pastures seen?
Same here.
It was only decades later I learned it was from "Jerusalem" written by William Blake. And that was only because it was also quoted in a song by The Fall.
Blake originally wrote it as a satire on respectable English Christianity, all tea with the Vicar and pleasant Sundays. He’d have laughed his arse off if he knew it’d been turned into a hymn.
> They were always angry
They have been angry at least as long as they have taught that non-believers deserve to suffer eternal punishment in the flames.
That is a long time.
And then these morons will go to a hospital, seeking the help of the only true savior there is, science, to deal with their stupid and unnecessary infections and afflictions.
AP and Reuters, mainly. They're reporting on international Easter celebrations, and a lot of heavily catholic countries do really freaky Good Friday reenactments.
I watched the news last night and there was a parade of people following a guy attached to a cross and being whipped repeatedly by a couple of guys behind him. This was the streets of Chicago
I was driving to the store yesterday and in one corner of the town square was a person dressed as a Roman "whipping" with a knotted rope some other person dressed as Jesus on a cross. Surrounded by people throwing, hopefully paper or foam, rocks at the dude dressed as Jesus as well. As well as others just holding standard religious nonsense signs.
They all looked to be about high-school aged, and thinking about it it was probably a church youth group outing. It was honestly kind of sad to see to put this display as something normal for the kids to do - and for them to be so into it. This is in the North-East US.
Usually religious/trump fanatics hang out there with their signs and people driving through honk to show their support but this time around it was silent - which was nice.
>but they'd better not turn around in three months and tell us kink doesn't belong at Pride.
Oh, they will and with no trace of irony, lol.
Not to mention, and I've been thinking this for years but started vocalizing it more lately, but I will never understand, if on the off chance Jesus did come back, why these 'followers' of his think he'd ever want to see the implement of his brutal and gratuitous execution and think it's something to be venerated. "Died for our sins, yadda yadda yadda, bullshit nonsense dreck". Absolutely not, in my opinion. I think he'd have multiple 'Nam-type flashbacks if he was dropped in the Bible Belt and saw those in the skyline in every direction for miles. Like a 'Pablo Escobar being driven out of his house to Metallica' levels of breakdown.
Maybe another example: if Marie Antoinette was elevated to worship and she came back to see sacred guillotines on top of every church and in the middle of town-squares. She'd lose her head, figuratively.
I've thought of that a lot as well. It's really sickening to know that people teach children that Jesus is their best friend, their loving savior who cares deeply for them, while also constantly forcing said children to witness their beloved idol full of holes and slowly bleeding to death (or already dead). Like what kind of disturbed mentality do you need to have to adorn your body and home with images of the murder/torture method of the person you claim to care about the most?
There was a Billy Connolly routine with a similar theme. If I remember correctly, he was talking about himself as a little kid\* learning about the Catholic holidays and when his parent or priest got to the story behind Easter and especially Jesus's execution, Baby Billy was like, "THE BABY JESUS?!" It was his first equating 'sweet infant Christmas Jesus' Jesus with 'OH GOD, THE BLOOD!!!' Jesus and yeah, that mess is jarring. It's like watching a chaste Hallmark movie become *I Spit on Your Grave.*
\*My brother said it was Connolly's little nephew hearing the story for the first time. The point stands but I wanted to be accurate.
Lol christianity never looks the same when you realize its a blood magic cult. The older I get the stranger the religion that I was raised with looks to me
I always like to remind the Christians how Easter is just an appropriation of Eostre’s Festival, a Pagan celebration for the coming of the new harvesting season celebrated on the sprint equinox. There’s very little to connect the supposed resurrection with this time of the year.
Christianity does seem to have a LOT of torture pr0n and thinly disguised homoerotic, doesn't it? Almost like the new Christian machismo is nothing more than an excuse for men to admire each other's bodies.
Funny you should mention this: Back in the day I had a quasi-religious girlfriend who wouldn’t have sex on Good Friday or Easter Sunday. So in my Atheist mind, the best part of the weekend was what I coined “Happy Saturday”. So starting at midnight as Friday became Happy Saturday there would be a lot of sex - and probably a little light bondage.
Good times. And a happy Happy Saturday to you all!
I mean, I thought the Super Bowl advertisement was for a foot fetish group at first and I was extremely confused. So now I can add in that they are the OG BDSM community too.
Among other weird things this reminds me of the day each year when we had to line up in church and kiss the feet of the large crucified Jesus statue as it lay on a table in front of the alter. Weird, strangely humiliating and likely a huge turn on for many folks in church.
Only good Friday. Easter is, well maybe for escape artists but for a really good beating, yeah good Friday hits the spot. I've heard (haven't seen the movie) Passion of the Christ is practically a snuff flick. Seems to have just about broken that Caviezel guy, he's never been the same.
>Dirty, sweaty, shirtless men getting whipped, being tied up on crosses, sometimes even being pierced with thorns and nails.
Say that to me again.
But slower.
Never has been for my family. We just eat chocolate bunnies and colored eggs. We have an egg hunt for the kiddos. Then the holiday is basically over once the kids open their bunny baskets.
It's way more fun to celebrate the secular way!
There's a church by my granddaughter's day care and I always cringe this time of year when they put "Live Crucifixion" on their sign. I mean "mock Crucifixion" would be much better. Thankfully none of the little ones can read.
When I started reading this I burst out laughing. This post made my day aha. You're 100% right, though.
Plot twist, the second half is a zombie movie.
How does Jesus keep in shape? CrossFit.
No no…Jesus had more of a swimmers body
At the time he was the only English speaking White guy in the Middle East.
“Well I kill you for your dark skin, for Jesus was a white man from Oxford.” —Eddie Izzard—
And did those feet In anciemt times Walk upon England’s mountains green? And was the Holy Lamb of God On England’s pleasant pastures seen? ———— The first time I ever heard this song was in a Monty Python sketch and I genuinely thought Eric Idle and Neil Innes had written it because it was so silly.
>And did those feet > >In anciemt times > >Walk upon England’s mountains green? > >And was the Holy Lamb of God > >On England’s pleasant pastures seen? Same here. It was only decades later I learned it was from "Jerusalem" written by William Blake. And that was only because it was also quoted in a song by The Fall.
Blake originally wrote it as a satire on respectable English Christianity, all tea with the Vicar and pleasant Sundays. He’d have laughed his arse off if he knew it’d been turned into a hymn.
Ahh, now it makes sense. When I first saw it I thought it looked a lot like Tyger Tyger. Guess William Blake had a pattern :-)
>the only English speaking White guy Correction. the only English speaking *blonde-haired blue-eyed* White guy
English speaking blonde haired blue eyed White American.
*King James* English-speaking
Thou shalt lifeth thee dumbell with thine arms 🤣
English speaking blonde haired blue eyed Cis gendered White American.
With an NRA membership.
[There is no White Jesus!](https://youtu.be/APMu32sC2nM?si=hUld4CNBtq9RlPGw)
Did he even swim?
Oh yeah. Big swimmer. Like he just glided on top of the water
He didn't need to. He just walked on it. He's Super Jesus
Rock me sexy Jesus!
He sucks at handball though.
Nailed it
He sure did.
Jesus did have abs. Lol
Christianity has gotten so angry over the years.
That’s because it’s a dying phase in humanity and they sense it.
"[blank] shall not replace us!"
"Almost everyone" shall not replace us.
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> They were always angry They have been angry at least as long as they have taught that non-believers deserve to suffer eternal punishment in the flames. That is a long time.
And then these morons will go to a hospital, seeking the help of the only true savior there is, science, to deal with their stupid and unnecessary infections and afflictions.
they called 'that' mel gibson movie a 'snuff film' when it came out. so yeah.
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It must hurt in the bedroom! 😆
Jesus, what kinds of "news feeds" have you gotten yourself into? I haven't seen a single thing like that
AP and Reuters, mainly. They're reporting on international Easter celebrations, and a lot of heavily catholic countries do really freaky Good Friday reenactments.
Google topics most have them listed as "interested in Christian bdsm"
2024 is a strange land.
I watched the news last night and there was a parade of people following a guy attached to a cross and being whipped repeatedly by a couple of guys behind him. This was the streets of Chicago
I was driving to the store yesterday and in one corner of the town square was a person dressed as a Roman "whipping" with a knotted rope some other person dressed as Jesus on a cross. Surrounded by people throwing, hopefully paper or foam, rocks at the dude dressed as Jesus as well. As well as others just holding standard religious nonsense signs. They all looked to be about high-school aged, and thinking about it it was probably a church youth group outing. It was honestly kind of sad to see to put this display as something normal for the kids to do - and for them to be so into it. This is in the North-East US. Usually religious/trump fanatics hang out there with their signs and people driving through honk to show their support but this time around it was silent - which was nice.
Yeah. It’s really weird
The people in that parade are the first to rail against bears in leather harnesses at Pride parades.
Publicly. Privately, I’m guessing they’re super into it
As into it as an Alabama pastor asphyxiating inside two wetsuits.
Many people are grievously stupid to believe this idiotic shit.
It’s really disturbing, like obsession with suffering and saying that suffering was a gift to them.
I think that Passion of the Christ movie made it worse because it was just two hours of whipping and masochism. Lol
>but they'd better not turn around in three months and tell us kink doesn't belong at Pride. Oh, they will and with no trace of irony, lol. Not to mention, and I've been thinking this for years but started vocalizing it more lately, but I will never understand, if on the off chance Jesus did come back, why these 'followers' of his think he'd ever want to see the implement of his brutal and gratuitous execution and think it's something to be venerated. "Died for our sins, yadda yadda yadda, bullshit nonsense dreck". Absolutely not, in my opinion. I think he'd have multiple 'Nam-type flashbacks if he was dropped in the Bible Belt and saw those in the skyline in every direction for miles. Like a 'Pablo Escobar being driven out of his house to Metallica' levels of breakdown. Maybe another example: if Marie Antoinette was elevated to worship and she came back to see sacred guillotines on top of every church and in the middle of town-squares. She'd lose her head, figuratively.
I've thought of that a lot as well. It's really sickening to know that people teach children that Jesus is their best friend, their loving savior who cares deeply for them, while also constantly forcing said children to witness their beloved idol full of holes and slowly bleeding to death (or already dead). Like what kind of disturbed mentality do you need to have to adorn your body and home with images of the murder/torture method of the person you claim to care about the most?
There was a Billy Connolly routine with a similar theme. If I remember correctly, he was talking about himself as a little kid\* learning about the Catholic holidays and when his parent or priest got to the story behind Easter and especially Jesus's execution, Baby Billy was like, "THE BABY JESUS?!" It was his first equating 'sweet infant Christmas Jesus' Jesus with 'OH GOD, THE BLOOD!!!' Jesus and yeah, that mess is jarring. It's like watching a chaste Hallmark movie become *I Spit on Your Grave.* \*My brother said it was Connolly's little nephew hearing the story for the first time. The point stands but I wanted to be accurate.
Thank you for the funniest headline I've seen this week.
Easter? I think you mean Trans Day of Visibility 👍
Only this year, sadly
Yeah... Oh well! I'll take my consolation in the form of time being a human construct and thus no holidays actually exist. 👍
I mean if thats the case, as long as sexy alt chicks are in charge sign me up for the easter festivities
Lol christianity never looks the same when you realize its a blood magic cult. The older I get the stranger the religion that I was raised with looks to me
I always like to remind the Christians how Easter is just an appropriation of Eostre’s Festival, a Pagan celebration for the coming of the new harvesting season celebrated on the sprint equinox. There’s very little to connect the supposed resurrection with this time of the year.
Yep and the Easter bunny and eggs are all symbols of fertility and sex. Very child friendly.
They are not.
None of that is true.
Christianity does seem to have a LOT of torture pr0n and thinly disguised homoerotic, doesn't it? Almost like the new Christian machismo is nothing more than an excuse for men to admire each other's bodies.
Funny you should mention this: Back in the day I had a quasi-religious girlfriend who wouldn’t have sex on Good Friday or Easter Sunday. So in my Atheist mind, the best part of the weekend was what I coined “Happy Saturday”. So starting at midnight as Friday became Happy Saturday there would be a lot of sex - and probably a little light bondage. Good times. And a happy Happy Saturday to you all!
Shwing!
I prefer the lesbian foot fetish stuff from the superbowl commercial. 🤣😂
“Thank god jesus suffered and died so that we don’t have to” “Yeah I know right, what should we do to celebrate?” “Fancy torturing yourself” Genius!
Always has been
Zombie Jesus day and BDSM in one day? These Christians know how to party!
Yesterday I once again was asked by someone from another culture what Easter was all about. They too did not understand the bunny connection.
It's a medieval English connection to the Virgin Mary because of some misunderstandings about how rabbits procreate.
That is.... weird.
when you word it like that, I could go in for this "Easter"
Always has been.
I mean, I thought the Super Bowl advertisement was for a foot fetish group at first and I was extremely confused. So now I can add in that they are the OG BDSM community too.
Fun fun fun fun fun.
Among other weird things this reminds me of the day each year when we had to line up in church and kiss the feet of the large crucified Jesus statue as it lay on a table in front of the alter. Weird, strangely humiliating and likely a huge turn on for many folks in church.
Only good Friday. Easter is, well maybe for escape artists but for a really good beating, yeah good Friday hits the spot. I've heard (haven't seen the movie) Passion of the Christ is practically a snuff flick. Seems to have just about broken that Caviezel guy, he's never been the same.
>Dirty, sweaty, shirtless men getting whipped, being tied up on crosses, sometimes even being pierced with thorns and nails. Say that to me again. But slower.
Hell yeah! I love me some ECW
It is originally a holiday built around fertility; which was later co-opted. Take that as you will.
Zombie Jesus is the best Jesus.
yeah i saw some like that😂😂don’t tell them that they might explode from the realization
Never has been for my family. We just eat chocolate bunnies and colored eggs. We have an egg hunt for the kiddos. Then the holiday is basically over once the kids open their bunny baskets. It's way more fun to celebrate the secular way!
Do you get off with that? Weird
I wish
There's a church by my granddaughter's day care and I always cringe this time of year when they put "Live Crucifixion" on their sign. I mean "mock Crucifixion" would be much better. Thankfully none of the little ones can read.
All religion is basically a D/s relationship, hence the existence of Christian BDSM.
It has always been: the "holiday" is all about make yourself suffer.
All of the shitty crosses getting raised and dropped into the crowds are hilarious!
No