Posted on 08/27/2009 7:56:51 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
Top trumps appears to have suddenly become the in thing in the world of religion. It used to be ferraris and lamborghinis.
Now a Christian version of Top Trumps, called Testament Trumps, has been released, apparently to help children learn more about biblical characters. And not to be outdone, the humanists have also launched their own version of Top Trumps, called God Trumps.
A pack has been sent to me from the New Humanist magazine, and it’s brilliantly satirical, as you’d expect. With the caricatures by the Guardian’s excellent cartoonist, Martin Rowson, it pitches Catholics against Anglicans and pagans against Mormons.
It goes without saying that the Anglicans, represented by a jam-holding woman cleric who looks suspiciously like June Osborne, the dean of Salisbury, are thumped by the Catholics, beaten in every category, from age and wealth to follower dedication and daffiest doctrine.
In fact the Church of England, whose followers are summed up as “hobbyists, hedge-betters, people who like a song on a Sunday morning”, is one of the worst cards in the whole pack. It is the Reliant Robin of the religion world. Only the Rastafarians fare worse.
Although it’s debatable whether scoring high is actually that desirable, particularly when it comes to daffiest doctrine.
Born again Christians come top in this category for their belief in the Rapture, when they believe Jesus will return with trumpets, a gathering of saints etc. They score 10 out of 10 along with scientologists, Jehovah’s witnesses, and Sunni and Shia muslims.
Rather unsurprisingly, secularists are deemed to have the least daffy doctrine, which is “no rules, just individual morality”. Their weapon of choice is “logic, reason, science, sarcasm and Dawkins”, which scores a healthy 7 out of 10, only being beaten by born again Christians with their “threats
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I’ve never heard of “top trumps.” What are they?
Whatever they are, this version is hilarious!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Trumps
which allows them to have any kind of disgusting or experimental or alternative lifestyle they want as long as it feels good or is self actualizing.
Okay, the folks who believe in the Rapture believe the end times, the times leading up to, and even more so after the Rapture, are going to be largely times of war, death, pestilence and famine, economic upheaval, widespread Christian apostasy, and the rise of a dominant international religion notable for extremely low intolerance for dissent from the faith, access to (and use of) state-of-the-art means of identifying, isolating and oppressing non-believers, and a taste for violence in enforcing the faith, and particularly for beheading. You may think they’re wrong. But if you’re actually paying attention to the world around you, you would be forced to conclude that they’re not completely daffy.
Some might think the resurrection is not a laughing matter. Laugh at it while you can, but I think there are plenty of other things to legitimately laugh at.
The point is, they're making fun of everyone, goring all the oxes and mocking all the sacred cows (literally). Good for them.
which allows them to have any kind of disgusting or experimental or alternative lifestyle they want as long as it feels good or is self actualizing.
Fine with me, as long as I don't have to pay for it.
It’s sad how unloving people can be, even those who claim to believe that Jesus was at least a wise man. When I was young I used to love mocking. It made me feel powerful. I tend to think now that in reality, mockery enslaves the mocker. I’m trying to grow up, and I am trying to break the habit. You might do good to try as well.
I think the mockers whom you admire haven’t done what you say they have. There are plenty of idol worshippers they haven’t mocked. But then again, there are plenty of idol worshippers. I think Elijah did a better job mocking some of them. If there is such a thing. But plenty suffered at Elijah’s hands. Jesus really is the only way.
It’s sad to see someone like you try to cut the sacred out of the story of their lives. It leaves so much out. The things you thirst and hunger for can only be found in the spaces you have left.
God bless you. I hope you do better than Bono.
Do they come with a sheet of bubble gum in the package? If no gum I’m not interested.
Except the atheists/secularists, of course, who come out smelling like roses. The whole point of the game is to mock religion in all of its flavors.
If you want gum, you'll have to look elsewhere.
Related thread:
Good Friday, Passover, Easter: PR for Bible trading cards
I wouldn't exactly say that.
Weapon of choice: Communism, killed 100+ million in the 20th century 10/10
I wasn’t talking about the Agnostic card, but rather the Secularist/Atheist/Humanist card. I don’t see anything on the latter card that can be construed as mockery (other than the illustration).
Agnostic
Secularist/Humanist/Atheist
Sunni
Shia
Muslim
Sikh
Hindu
Jain
Buddhist
Zoroastrian
Pagan
Church of England
Methodist
Born Again Christian - All and Any Denominations
Mormon
Jehovah's Witness
Scientologist
Bahai
Rastafarian
Satanist
Catholic
Eastern Orthodox
Orthodox Jewish
Jedi
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