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Honest question. Is this site a religious site?

843 replies

follderol · 26/01/2009 18:01

It seems to me there's a large amount of Christian posts. I've also noticed a fair amount of disapproval for other religions.

I am an atheist. I don't really want to be part of a christian site posing as a parenting site.

So is this actually a Christian place?

OP posts:
IorekByrnison · 27/01/2009 13:25

No point to a biscuit? Thor help us.

UnquietDad · 27/01/2009 13:23

I enjoy the Bagpuss references. I enjoy even more being told I have missed the "point" when my point is that there isn't one.

A biscuit is butter, flour and sugar. Of course. Doesn't stop it being a pleasant biscuit. But it does stop it being a product of a non-existent piece of supernatural woo-ery.

IorekByrnison · 27/01/2009 13:23

Yes, Kay. Although I would go further and say the chocolate hobnob is the true biscuit of the schism. I have always felt that the hobnob was quite complete on its own, and that the addition of chocolate makes it a very difficult biscuit conceptually. Part wholesome oatiness, part shameless luxury. It cannot end well.

frogs · 27/01/2009 13:22

And a selection of hand-baked wholesome organic biscuits and cakes denotes a church of any denomination with a desirable primary school attached, with loads of ambitious mothers trying to ingratiate themselves in the run-up to admissions deadline.

KayHarkerIsNotAnAuthority · 27/01/2009 13:21

Now the question is, UQD, can you make chocolate biscuits with breadcrumbs and butterbeans?

IorekByrnison · 27/01/2009 13:20

Effie, I was just thinking of gingernuts. Definitely for non-conformists.

Threadworm · 27/01/2009 13:20

Iorek:

KayHarkerIsNotAnAuthority · 27/01/2009 13:19

Chocolate digestives. You have the ruddy, earthy simplicity of the digestive, juxtaposed with the luxurious sweetness of the chocolate layer. It'll all end in tears.

IorekByrnison · 27/01/2009 13:18

You see, uqd, there's the thing right there. If you have a very crumbly shortbread in your hand, you don't dunk it in hot tea because you know that is not what it is for. You eat it. Unless of course you just want to prove to the world that it is nothing but butter, flour and sugar after all (see Threadworm's of 11:59:34). But you would have to be something like Professor Yaffle to miss the point quite so spectacularly.

EffiePerine · 27/01/2009 13:17

is there a schismatic biscuit?

AMumInScotlandsAMumForAThat · 27/01/2009 13:16

Never mind biscuits, what about the theology of home-made bread for the eucharist then, eh! Made to a special recipe too, and lightly dusted with flour before being wrapped in a clean teatowel to stop it from getting crusty...

EffiePerine · 27/01/2009 13:16

thought they were absorbed into the URC?

could be a schism

Threadworm · 27/01/2009 13:15

Iorek, religion and Rich Tea are rather along the lines of 'he really is not disgusting' in Daniel D.?

Let's do you: fav bisuit please.

ruty · 27/01/2009 13:14

der-de-der-de...it's...RationalMan! With his scaldingly hot tea of Logic! Reduces even the tastiest biscuit to sludge! Fells all talk of the meaning of our existence with one gulp!

KayHarkerIsNotAnAuthority · 27/01/2009 13:14

yes they do. I know an english presbyterian..

EffiePerine · 27/01/2009 13:12

gingernuts

not sure if this equates to nonconformism (brought up in) or my foray into happy-clappy land (teens)

suspect I am something like an English Presbyterian by temperament, though they no longer exist

KayHarkerIsNotAnAuthority · 27/01/2009 13:11

unfortunately, most church are unable to offer the chunky KitKat due to budgetary constraints.

KayHarkerIsNotAnAuthority · 27/01/2009 13:09

no, it's a chunky Kitkat. Soaks up the tea beautifully, and makes it all lovely and chocolatey.

IorekByrnison · 27/01/2009 13:09

Threadworm that is as it should be. Your liking of the Rich Tea reflects your largely benign but detached feelings towards religious faith in general.

UnquietDad · 27/01/2009 13:06

The perfect biscuit for churchies is surely a very crumbly home-made shortbread. One which may be tasty and lovingly prepared, but falls apart when you dunk it in the Hot Strong Tea Of Rationality. And you are left with a lot of messy sludge in the bottom of the mug.

FAQtothefuture · 27/01/2009 13:06

our Methodist minister used to go off down the pub with the CoE lot after the joint Alpha course (this was years ago). And my mum (a local preacher in the Methodist church) enjoys a drink (or 2 or 10 )

KayHarkerIsNotAnAuthority · 27/01/2009 13:04

Rich tea is good for stopping you vomit, too.

FAQtothefuture · 27/01/2009 13:04

well we're CoE, and we have a laptop with large (very fancy smancy) screen that gets brought out, and I'm thinking of using dance in our Good Friday evening thing that we do.........

However we also have a traditional Evensong (yawn - it's so crap without a choir though) and said communions 2 times a week as well.

Threadworm · 27/01/2009 13:03

I really like Rich Tea.

KayHarkerIsNotAnAuthority · 27/01/2009 13:02

You should read the Methodist Recorder. Stuffed to the gills with irate comment about hymnbooks and alcohol. It's like DM lite.

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