Not a religious person? How about this church?

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http://www.thelocal.se/15786/20081119/

The Madonna of Orgasm Church took an important step toward official recognition in Sweden last week when a court ruled it had the right to be registered as a faith community.

Originally, the Legal, Financial and Administrative Services Agency (Kammarkollegiet) had refused the church?s registration application on the grounds that its name may offend Christians.

But the church?s founder, artist Carlos Bebeacua from L?vestad in southern Sweden, won his appeal to the county administrative court.

If the agency does not appeal the court?s decision within three weeks, then it must process Bebeacua?s application to register the church, which he founded in the early 1990s.

According to the Sk?nska Dagbladet newspaper, the idea for the church came to Bebeacua, who is the church?s self-appointed cardinal, after a painting of his entitled 'The Madonna of Orgasm' sparked protests requiring police action during the 1992 World?s Fair in Seville, Spain.

?The orgasm is God, the orgasm should be worshiped,? Bebeacua told the Kv?llsposten newspaper.

?The orgasm is the ultimate feeling of lust, it shouldn?t be limited to ejaculation. You can reach it through art or by looking at a landscape and thinking ?Wow!??

According to Bebeacua, the church has a few hundred followers, and he hopes that registering the Madonna of Orgasm Church will get more people to consider the orgasm as God.

The church only has priestesses and its scriptures are called the Catechism of the Orgasm. The only gospel peached is the gospel of sex.

?It?s so we do what we know is right and good,? Bebeacua told Kv?llsposten.

During ceremonies, the priestesses read verses and eat fruit and drink juice. Sex isn?t the focus, but it?s not forbidden either.

?It?s never happened. I don?t know how we?d react if it happened,? said Bebeacua.

He deflects allegations that his church is all about orgies and sex, claiming its purpose is to help people see orgasms as a metaphor for a love of life.

?There?s nothing dangerous in what we say, we?re harmless. It?s just that we have our doubts about established religions,? he told the TT news agency.
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I'm there!!! :bow:
 
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If Scientology can be a religion..
 
It's no worse than eating flesh and drinking blood... aka crackers and wine.
 
I'm down with that idea. As an atheist, the closest I've ever been to a religious experience was sex while high.
 
God blantantly helped Berners-Lee invent the internet so we could all watch porn, so these guys are obviously right.
 
Eh, do what you want. Doesn't bother this church goer.

Question, though. The person interviewed was "having doubts about established religions", if that religion becomes established, will he have doubts about himself or the religion?
 
Imo, all religions are just mainstream accepted cults haha.


No religion or church for me thank you very much.


And before anyone has a sook at what I said, I started with imo expressing that what I said is, well, in my opinion.
 
colddayin-hell said:
And before anyone has a sook at what I said, I started with imo expressing that what I said is, well, in my opinion.
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And I respect your opinion. Just keep in mind, respect is a two way street. :)

(What in the world is a "sook"?)
 
jayhawk said:
(What in the world is a "sook"?)
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My best definition would be someone who complains about everything.
And by having a sook is like ... having a whinge session.

Hmmm ... whinge might be aussie colloquialism as well ....

In which case

a cry; a complaint; to complain or protest, especially in an annoying or persistent manner
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/whinge
 
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jayhawk said:
And I respect your opinion. Just keep in mind, respect is a two way street. :)

(What in the world is a "sook"?)
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Oh no, that's cool, if people are religious I don't bag them for it.
Nor do I try to force my opinion on them.
Just religion is not for me.
 
jayhawk said:
And I respect your opinion. Just keep in mind, respect is a two way street. :)

(What in the world is a "sook"?)
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Yeah, I only know one or two "pushy" atheists. I believe that "Thou shalt keep thine religion to thy self"
 
Fnord.

GREATER POOP: Are you really serious or what?
MAL-2: Sometimes I take humor seriously. Sometimes I take seriousness humorously. Either way it is irrelevant.
GP: Maybe you are just crazy.
M2: Indeed! But do not reject these teaching as false because I am crazy. The reason that I am crazy is because they are true.
GP: Is Eris true?
M2: Everything is true.
GP: Even false things?
M2: Even false things are true.
GP: How can that be?
M2: I don't know man, I didn't do it.
GP: Why do you deal with so many negatives?
M2: To dissolve them.
GP: Will you develop that point?
M2: No.
GP: Is there an essential meaning behind POEE?
M2: There is a Zen Story about a student who asked a Master to explain the meaning of Buddhism. The Master's reply was "Three pounds of flax."
GP: Is that the answer to my question?
M2: No, of course not. That is just illustrative. The answer to your question is FIVE TONS OF FLAX!
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