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Church of Cheetah? Newspaper Suggests Chimp Religious Worship
Newsbusters ^ | March 4, 2016 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 03/04/2016 7:58:11 PM PST by PJ-Comix

Church of Cheetah Missouri Synod?

Perhaps not as ridiculous as it sounds according to the U.K. Independent. That newspaper suggests that chimpanzees tossing rocks at trees could be a primitive form of religous practice. They provide a video of this "ritual" but to your humble correspondent, it looks like nothing more than a bunch of dumb monkeys idly tossing rocks around. However, the idea of chimp worship is no more ridiculous than the Independent aping a lot of other news outlets last December when they published a story about how 2016 will be the HOTTEST YEAR ON RECORD. So rather than be branded a heretic, I shall now allow the Independent to make the case for pious chimps.

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TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: chimpanzees; religion
Methinks a bunch of chimp researchers are searching for a new pathway to more government grants.
1 posted on 03/04/2016 7:58:11 PM PST by PJ-Comix
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To: Charles Henrickson
Missouri Synod PING!

Hey, I couldn't resist but I think the reader with the comment about the first chimp to invent a hat had the FUnniest line of them all.

2 posted on 03/04/2016 8:00:34 PM PST by PJ-Comix (DUmmie Skinner: Bought & Paid For By Hillary)
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To: PJ-Comix

Another establishment plan to dilute and pervert peoples beliefs and faith since they havent figured out how to make pedophilia a religion.


3 posted on 03/04/2016 8:05:10 PM PST by DeathBeforeDishonor1
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To: PJ-Comix

Maybe they were watching a clip from 2001: A Space Oddessy...


4 posted on 03/04/2016 8:09:47 PM PST by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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To: PJ-Comix
Eh? The slimes travel thousands of miles by the millions to throw rocks at an obelisk. So..... Maybe.

Allah, the murderous god of tourism.

5 posted on 03/04/2016 8:17:04 PM PST by rawcatslyentist (Genesis 1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed,)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

In retrospect, it is obviously a religious “liturgy.”

Similarly, chimpanzees in the zoo that throw their feces at humans must be worshiping us. It’s all so clear now.


6 posted on 03/04/2016 8:49:23 PM PST by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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To: sparklite2

Panama. Sleeping in an RON position.Had howler monkeys barking at us, crapping in their “hands” and throwing their feces at us. I did not feel like an object of worship.

Main story’s purpose is to suggest that religious people are not ‘evolved’.


7 posted on 03/04/2016 8:55:36 PM PST by ameribbean expat
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To: PJ-Comix

bump for later


8 posted on 03/04/2016 9:27:19 PM PST by Albion Wilde (Who can actually defeat the Democrats in 2016? -- the most important thing about all candidates.)
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To: PJ-Comix

Anything like Trinity United???...

Ouch...

Rimshot.


9 posted on 03/04/2016 10:25:30 PM PST by Organic Panic
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To: PJ-Comix

I feel a “primate” joke fermenting.


10 posted on 03/04/2016 11:10:11 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (So our choice will be either Trump or Clinton? I need a drink.)
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To: PJ-Comix

I think they are trying to discredit religion and *prove* that it’s *primitive* and therefore we are *evolving* out of it.


11 posted on 03/05/2016 4:35:59 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: PJ-Comix

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoning_of_the_Devil

Just Sayin’. :-)


12 posted on 03/05/2016 6:50:12 AM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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