bless

October 16th, 2007

Discussion (15)¬

  1. fnord3125 says:
    October 16, 2007 at 4:56 am

    Awwww, isn’t that sweet? If only real people could think of things this way.

  2. latsot says:
    October 16, 2007 at 6:09 am

    I rather think quite a lot of people *do* think that way and that it is hardly a good thing.

  3. JayBee says:
    October 16, 2007 at 2:01 pm

    Oh boy! Some alliance this is…

  4. Gunnlaugur says:
    October 16, 2007 at 4:39 pm

    Hey, she said “goodbye” in Icelandic. (Yeah, that’s “bless.” Bummer for us unbelievers.)

  5. carolita says:
    October 16, 2007 at 8:35 pm

    See, now this is exactly the kind of thing that scares me about “the faithful.” As long as you believe in something? As long as you live your delusions as willfully as me? As long as we all go down together?

    I’m shuddering right now. Shudder, shudder.

  6. Jonathan says:
    October 19, 2007 at 12:31 am

    Coulda Woulda Shudder..

  7. Ophelia Benson says:
    October 20, 2007 at 9:02 am

    They both pretend to know things that they cannot possibly know – I love the way the barmaid puts things. And the way J and Mo just float right over them.

  8. kynefski says:
    October 20, 2007 at 5:44 pm

    What a wonderful summary of ecumenism. It’s the act of pretending that we share.

  9. yelinna says:
    November 24, 2007 at 8:33 pm

    Aaawww!! Jesus and Mo having a hug!
    This is adorable. Their people should do the same.

  10. HaggisForBrains says:
    February 22, 2012 at 11:58 am

    More than four years on, and this is still topical. Take a bow, Baroness Warsi!

  11. James Hutchings says:
    February 23, 2012 at 3:43 am

    Why can’t real religions concentrate on what they share: hatred of women and gay people?

  12. David Hart says:
    February 29, 2012 at 11:25 am

    “They both pretend to know things that they cannot possibly know – I love the way the barmaid puts things. ”

    Wait, is the barmaid secretly Sam Harris?

  13. ottebrain says:
    October 19, 2013 at 6:11 pm

    In Judaism the matriarch figure is very important; if your mother is Jewish you technically are, but not if your father is. Although, if you don’t go to an orthodox synagogue only men can be rabbis…

  14. Mary Mary says:
    May 2, 2014 at 1:28 pm

    Barmaid reminds me so much of Ms. Sara Bellum from The Powerpuff Girls. She is the faceless voice of reason and logic and secretary to the Mayor and advises him and the Girls in their adventures.
    LOVE this site, thanks so much for the smiles and thinks, Author!

  15. Bones'sDog says:
    April 30, 2017 at 9:55 pm

    Correction to Ottebrain, sorry but that is not strictly true any more if it ever was. You can be Jewish with a Jewish father only, or even with not a Jewish relative in sight so long as you convert properly.
    The State of Israel has loads of inclusive rules about this.
    It’s nice to see a government being inclusive.

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