GodMen: Tyler Durden Meets Ned Flanders
I think some Christians saw Fight Club.
They apparently left the movie thinking that the one thing that could have made Tyler Durden cooler is a personal relationship with Jesus. So far I agree — a little more prayer and that movie would have been perfect. I started implementing Project Mayhem thousands of years before the Brad Pitt blockbuster hit theaters, and I was disappointed that it failed to credit Me. I should have trademarked mayhem. 
The GodMen, as they call themselves, could have taken that message of anarchy and manliness and gone on to start a new Crusade or the next Inquisition. They could have just started punching each other’s lights out. Instead they chose this macho Christian mission:
We are attempting to create a worship place for men that looks nothing like church. It is a place where men of no religion and men who have left the church break bread with followers of Jesus. Where simply being a man, created in Gods image, is celebrated.
It gets even better. What, you ask, could possibly be more manly than a bunch of guys getting together over a stack of Bibles to eat a marble rye and join atheists in celebrating Jesus? This, for starters:
We have committed to see what would happen if, for one day, our faith and its struggles would be discussed with absolute honesty, transparency and openness - not sugar coated or framed in church language but instead spoken in frankness and maturity where men can see their innermost fears, shames, and secrets brought to light in a safe environment.
It’ll be just like a hunting camp, getting together with your friends Ron the car mechanic and Bob the concrete pourer, and of course Stumpy the demolition man, to talk about man stuff like trucks and ammunition. Only instead of beer, guns, and fire, you can gather around Ecclesiastes and talk about your innermost feelings! Can you hear Tim Taylor grunting?
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*grunts*
Punch me in the face! Oh yes! I love you God!
I suppose the best we can hope for is that they remember the first rule of Fight Club.
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Wow.
God must have died.
God -Allah- consciousness — whatever you call The Father is way-a-head of you slow thinkers!!!
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THE DLK
God, are you there?
You don’t seem to talk to us any more…
Maybe god did die… but then who’s been paying for the domain?
Hey, God! Where have you gone?
hi
there is this page i found which tracks all the top blog news about atheism in just a single page
http://www.netreputation.co.uk/directory/atheism
you are on it too
God is dead? bah.
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Guys, I have attended this and participated in it. I think you are missing the point. The point is that the church has downplayed the role of men in religion we are trying to say that it is ok to be men and act like men and that it isnt contrary to the gospel…check us out before you pass judgement.
THE SAINT
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“…check us out before you pass judgement…”
Uh..I might, if you didn’t follow that up by labeling yourself “The Saint”
THE SAINT: The point is that the church has downplayed the role of men in religion…
You’re kidding me right? right?
That statement is a joke…. isn’t it?
did anyone visit DLK’s link? He is one crazy bastard!
Reading the contents of it draw visions of a deranged lunatic frantically scribbling on a stack of papers in his cell. lol!
I feel religion is the greatest failing of belief. As a self proclaimed atheist I think that a place where normal people can discuss their thoughts on faith is a good idea because even I could not deny its neccessity in the fragile human psyche or to fill the gaps in the knowledge of humanity. It is an insecurity we are right to indulge at this time for sanity’s sake.
you guys are dolts. there are lots of men that follow Jesus that would love to kick your asses.
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