"And spotteth twice they the camels before the third hour, and so, the Midianites went forth to Ram Gilead in Kadesh Bilgemath, by Shor Ethra Regalion, to the house of Gash-Bil-Bethuel-Bazda, he who brought the butter dish to Balshazar and the tent peg to the house of Rashomon, and there slew they the goats, yea, and placed they the bits in little pots. Here endeth the lesson."
@@mikemanners1069 here we go again, the bigots can't miss what they think is an opportunity to offer their ignorance. You succeeded. can't you shut up? Just for a day?
@@mikemanners1069 1) this movie came out way before anyone in the west cared about Islam. 2) south park already made fun of islam. 3) grow the fuck up. Put your big boy pants on and recognize freedom of speech.
As a graduate of a Christian boarding school I can totally relate to this. The lyrics to that hymn basically say what the lyrics to every hymn is saying. "Please don't send us to hell God!"
O Lord please don't burn us, don't gril or toast your flock. Don't put us on the barbecue, or simmer us in stock. Don't braise or bake or boil us or stir fry us in a wok. Oh please don't lightly poach us or bast us with hot fat. Don't fricassee or roast us or boil us in a vat, and please don't stick thy servant Lord in a Rotissomat. Amen
Recently I was watching the british royal wedding on tv, and when the anglican bishop conducting the ceremony said "Let us pray" all that came before my eyes was Michael Palin going "Oh Lord, ooo you are so big!" Kinda ruined the solemnity of the whole occasion for me. Monty Python has ruined so much in my life and I'm utterly grateful to them for doing so.
I truly believe this is one of Python's most perfect sketches: The 'lesson', rubbing linseed oil into the school cormorant, poor Jenkins and then the hymn. I have never not laughed out loud at this sketch, it's the type of satire+absurdity which makes Life of Brian my favourite film.
When I first saw the Meaning of Life, I was much amused and mildly uneasy. I think, in both form and substance, the film does contain the true meaning of life. Life of Brian is a better film only because it's not a mosaic of sketches. But that's just because Life of Brian is a story. The Meaning of Life is a statement. Life's cruel, sad, complicated and brilliant. I must lay off Doctor Who, now when I think of it.
And the LORD spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin, then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it."
"And now we proceed to read from the book of Brian, or as he named it, 'Behind the Scenes, or How I Was Born and Lived Next to the Messiah (now 20 % off)'.
Let us praise God Oh Lord (repeat) Ooooh You are so big (repeat) So absolutely huge (repeat) Gosh! We're really impressed down here i can tell you (repeat) Forgive us Oh Lord, for this our dreadful toadying (and bare-faced flattery) But you're so strong, and well, just so - SUPAH! (FANTASTIC!) Amen (Amen)
In a strange way this film encapulates pretty much all there is to know about the condition of being a human. This is a wonderful film and such a pity the Python team didn't enjoy making it.
I also remember going to school and getting this sort of prayer service going on. Worship is such an interesting concept. Prostrating yourself with set out words of thanks, and more significantly, servitude. But this scene is brilliant. It really is dead on the money, exaggerating everything just enough to identify perfectly the ridiculousness of church worship. Subtle enough to make you realise those parts that are actually just this, but in different, pre-ordained wording. Fuck it's weird.haha
I've always wondered that, too. I know what a cormorant is (birds of the genus Phalacrocorax), and I've always assumed it was just included for the absurdity of having a school cormorant. So much of Python, though, particularly this sketch, is societal commentary that I bet it was intended to be a comment on the absurdity of taking school mascots so seriously. Whenever I think about that line, "rubbing linseed oil in the school cormorant," I crack up. It just sounds so ridiculous.
"Some characteristics of Dadaism's most profound characteristics include humor, whimsy, artistic freedom, emotional reaction, irrationalism, and spontaneity." What made Python great was insightful and educated commentary on society coupled with the ridiculous and irreverent.
I wonder why real churches can't be like this one - seriously. The prayer is much more personal and comprehensible, witty, yet without blasphemy. Most adorable thing.
Saw this for the first time in Finland as a teenager. Had no idea what the hell "rubbing linseed oil into the cormorant" could truly signify, but had an instinct already then it referred to some idiotic British idiocyncracy. It was one of the many Python monologues me and my friends memorized 😂
MOVIE TRIVIA: As one of the Cast Members in this, (playing the school boy on the right 2nd row up next to the teacher) first seen messing about in the tracking shot, and twice on the right in the fixed shot close ups, we shot this on Location in the hall at a school in Bushey Hertfordshire. If you look closely you can see some of the school kids from the school holding a sheet of paper inside the books, which had the lines for the song on it. All the boys seen in the opening close up tracking shots are Professional Actors,(Stage School trained), the rest are kids from the School we filmed it at, I was 20 years old at the time, (playing a 15 year old), as were a few of us in this, that had attended the Barbara Speake Stage School, and had worked on many TV and Film Productions before it, Like Grange Hill,(BBC), Full Circle 1976, Absolution 1978, The Gentle Touch (LWT), to name a few.
This bit, what have the Roman’s ever done for us? And the Latin lesson might be my favorite Cleese bits. We try to remember all the names of those from the Sudbury area, who so valiantly gave their lives to Keep China British!
The church used here is the one we used as a Masonic Temple in the film 'Chemical Wedding' - Simon Callow does a wonderful Pythonish performance as Aliester Crowley in the film.
The absolutely lifeless and rote way they recite liturgy and sing hymns is exactly the way the Methodist church I was raised in did things, everything devoid of emotion or thought, people just doing what they're told, no matter how senseless.
I remember they used to scare the shit out of us when we were children saying god will smite us for being bad and such so the hymn makes a perfect satire.
@comodocomodos True. You can read the Bible and still not see that it could be true. Like I said it's a personal thing between you and God and you really do have to open yourself up to see things you may never have noticed several times while reading it. Always something new to learn. It was written very long ago by very different people, also true. God can use anyone even the worst sinner - and change them. They still retain an original personality, they're not robots [count]
@comodocomodos [count] For example, in 1st Corinthians Paul states that the Holy Spirit did not ask him to say the following, but that it allowed for him to-- and then he went on to say that women should not talk in the Temple. That was a cultural thing that God allowed men to do-- which is often because the hardness of the hearts of people wants something like that and there would be a fight over it.
While your probably right about Pyton's intent, I agree with agora. If God does exist, the idea that his lowly creations feel the need to tell him how big and fantastic he is is ridiculous and quite humorous. God is all knowing and loving, but don't dare forget to prop up his ego!
@comodocomodos I understand that. There are lots of people out there who grew up in churches and were either treated poorly, or just plain didn't get any questions answered properly, or felt forced to believe in what the church believed.
@comodocomodos As I meant to say, it is a very personal journey to find out what is true and what is not, and who is God. You do have to pray about it, you do have to read, study things, everything, anything but you have to pray that God show himself to you, and help you to understand and find the truth. You have to really open your heart to the possibilities and accept that some truth might be hard to hear, might not be what you want-- but it can be proven.
Does anyone know the source of that picture (it should be from this sketch) where John "reads" the book and has an "amazed" expression? I saw the movie 2 times on a few days (both the normal version and the director's cut) and I'm sure that it's not in the movie
@comodocomodos [count] Many things can go wrong in this world, many people can try to destroy all that God attempts to do, and maybe there are some things missing or rough translations but the message is still there, and you CAN figure it out when you read it with an open heart and pray for answers and understanding.
@comodocomodos [count] In order to not offend others. There was a huge argument in the early church wether gentiles who become Christian should get circumsized. In the end they said, look this is just an outward thing in the flesh that doesnt matter but we should do it just to put at ease the Jewish people who really don't think it's right not to be circumsized. Because people are so wrapped up in how they think things should be, God sometimes allows traditions and cultural things like this.
+David Johnson The fact that you feel it necessary to say this suggests to me that you didn't go to a British school, or if you did, not before 1985. Am I right?
@comodocomodos [count] God does allow for us to have differences of opinion, in fact some times the diciples bickered over who should go with who to spread the gospel because they could see each other's weaknesses, etc. God didn't pop out of the clouds and tell them specifically how they should deal with every little difference of opinion on things. And he does allow for certain cultural differences to govern different choices [count]
@comodocomodos He has given humans work to do, part of that is prophets, some are preachers, etc. We don't follow the person we follow the mesage God has given through them, or to them. But He makes sure that we can tell which is which. You have to study for yourself.
It's not just like church it's not just like church it's not just like church church doesn't sound this crazy or mocking of the very tolerant and patient god we all have up in the sky over there and there and there too.
oh lord you are soo big!!! LMAOO dont simmer us in a stock CLASSIC!! this is exactly how the church hyms soud like in real life it all comes down to us fear ing god and praising him by calling him great and powerful love monty python and im a girl LOL
@comodocomodos They were very particular about copying the scriptures. Each word was written, checked, double checked by more than one person before going on to the next. Secondly, God knew people would have power over the Bible and so some things were written prophetically because they talked out against those who would have the power to destroy it. [Revalation and Daniel] --[count]
@comodocomodos yep, there is sin everywhere, churches are no exception. In fact they are attacked with temptation more often than others it seems. I'm glad other people are not my example, but Jesus is. I have to learn to forgive them and help them just as anyone else I encounter in the world, and they will hopefully forgive me for my faults too. We're no better or worse than eachother, everyone has sinned and come short fo the glory of God.
For a superbly witty, good humoured look at the meaning of life try ' The reason driven life' by top author Robert M Price. Also authors John W. Loftus, Dan Barker, Valerie Tarico, Victor J. Stenger on youtube
@comodocomodos [count] when it comes to modern issues Bible study clarifies what is right and wrong pretty easily. It might not use the word abortion, but when it comes to children it is expressed over and over that it is a gift from God. It is also said our bodies do not belong to us, they belong to God. If you have faith, God will help you to take care of that child, or find someone who can. Gay rights can seem tricky [count]
@comodocomodos When you study the Bible you find proof that the prophets aren't making things up when comparing them to eachother, and to history. The biggest proof is that God is very personal, and when you open yourself up to Him and ask Him to show you what you can believe he reveals himself to you in a very real way-- so that you have no doubt. You might even experience something miraculous but its just for you, between the two of you. [count]
I think it was a sly reference to a sketch in their first TV series that was about camel-spotting (itself a spoof of the strange habit of train-spotting), which fits as camels are native (though not exclusive) to Biblical regions.
@comodocomodos With God's power, He can help us to not sin. We have to have faith in Him. Yeah it makes sense we're still going to be weak in faith and mess up from time to time, and we should repent from our heart when that happens, but not be crushed by guilt over our weakness. I believe what the prophets said that Jesus said was correct. I believe they were true prophets, and it's ok to quote from them.
To the house of gash bill bethuel bazder.... he who brought the butter dish to balthezar and the tent peg to the house of rashamon. hahahahahahaha love it smoking the good stuff
@comodocomodos When He's given fair warning He's going to do something, and other's try to go against Him, there are going to be reprocussions. I don't see any showing off there. God shows His power so that others might believe. He doesn't always show it when people disobey, He also shows it to help those who love Him to grow in their faith.
@comodocomodos Yes, I read it in the Bible. But also, if you're still questioning the prophets you should study their prophecies and see if they came true for yourself. God repremanded his people, and his prophets even as he allowed for them to do things that were not His vision for them.
And then the teacher tells the boy about the death of his mother totally without compassion and care, as he feels it's just an unimportant event that the lord has made to happen and that's how it is. In reality there is no god and the death of a loved one is very tragic, especially for children! And as the ancient Epicurus has said(in a nutshell): There is no god, because the world would have to be perfect if he would exist!!
@comodocomodos [count] The best proof are the prophecies. Sadly few people realize that the Bible itself holds the keys to decoding them. You don't make up your own interpretation, or go to some one else, the Bible will flat out tell you what the symbolic meanings are. And they were written many years before the events took place.
@comodocomodos It is true that some people may have some of the truth but not all of it, others follow what men tell them and dont study the Bible for themselves. Also satan does do his best to cause confusion and create false religions-- [please don't take that to mean everyone is going to hell or is stupid or evil or something] The Bible holds all the keys to unlocking the truth. It shows the call signs of a real prophet and a fake one, it even has the keys to read Revelation in it.
My friend read this prayer out over the intercom in school today instead of the regular prayer.
In Saudi Arabia or the American Bible Belt?...the people have many questions.
Still waiting on an update from Ross Creed
It must have taken a lot of self control to keep from bursting out laughing (either you or your friend).
I would love to meet your friend and shake his hand, lol
I've just come back from a holy pilgrimage to Gash-Bil-Bethuel-Bazda. I crawled on my knees for 40 days and nights carrying the sacred butter dish.
Did you eat the goat bits?
@@ls-vg4pn Yes. It's the final ceremony of the pilgrimage. The aroma of fried goats testicles can be spiritually uplifting.
What about the tent peg of Rashomon?
"And spotteth twice they the camels before the third hour, and so, the Midianites went forth to Ram Gilead in Kadesh Bilgemath, by Shor Ethra Regalion, to the house of Gash-Bil-Bethuel-Bazda, he who brought the butter dish to Balshazar and the tent peg to the house of Rashomon, and there slew they the goats, yea, and placed they the bits in little pots. Here endeth the lesson."
Splendid rendition PP......!!
Lets see you brave comics make fun of the Koran like that.....in front of Muslims.
@@mikemanners1069
here we go again, the bigots can't miss what they think is an opportunity to offer their ignorance.
You succeeded.
can't you shut up? Just for a day?
@@mikemanners1069 boo, you too in your feelings.
@@mikemanners1069 1) this movie came out way before anyone in the west cared about Islam. 2) south park already made fun of islam. 3) grow the fuck up. Put your big boy pants on and recognize freedom of speech.
As a graduate of a Christian boarding school I can totally relate to this. The lyrics to that hymn basically say what the lyrics to every hymn is saying. "Please don't send us to hell God!"
you don't get it LOL
O Lord please don't burn us,
don't gril or toast your flock.
Don't put us on the barbecue,
or simmer us in stock.
Don't braise or bake or boil us
or stir fry us in a wok.
Oh please don't lightly poach us
or bast us with hot fat.
Don't fricassee or roast us
or boil us in a vat,
and please don't stick thy servant Lord
in a Rotissomat.
Amen
Recently I was watching the british royal wedding on tv, and when the anglican bishop conducting the ceremony said "Let us pray" all that came before my eyes was Michael Palin going "Oh Lord, ooo you are so big!" Kinda ruined the solemnity of the whole occasion for me. Monty Python has ruined so much in my life and I'm utterly grateful to them for doing so.
LMFAO, im currently watching the Queen's funeral and can't help but think of "marching up and down the square"....and then this entire scene.
I truly believe this is one of Python's most perfect sketches: The 'lesson', rubbing linseed oil into the school cormorant, poor Jenkins and then the hymn.
I have never not laughed out loud at this sketch, it's the type of satire+absurdity which makes Life of Brian my favourite film.
When I first saw the Meaning of Life, I was much amused and mildly uneasy. I think, in both form and substance, the film does contain the true meaning of life. Life of Brian is a better film only because it's not a mosaic of sketches. But that's just because Life of Brian is a story. The Meaning of Life is a statement. Life's cruel, sad, complicated and brilliant.
I must lay off Doctor Who, now when I think of it.
I just love that prayer.
"Oh, Lord. Oooo! You're so BIG. So abosoLUTEtly HUGE. Gosh, we're all really impressed down here, I can tell you" XD!
"...who so gallantly gave their lives to keep China british."
"...who fought so gallantly to keep china british."
these guys were amazing at delivery.
And the LORD spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin, then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it."
"And now we proceed to read from the book of Brian, or as he named it, 'Behind the Scenes, or How I Was Born and Lived Next to the Messiah (now 20 % off)'.
Let us praise God
Oh Lord (repeat)
Ooooh You are so big (repeat)
So absolutely huge (repeat)
Gosh! We're really impressed down here i can tell you (repeat)
Forgive us Oh Lord, for this our dreadful toadying (and bare-faced flattery)
But you're so strong, and well, just so - SUPAH! (FANTASTIC!)
Amen (Amen)
try doing John cleases part
Tbf, I used to have to go to these services when I was in school, and the prayers might as well have been this
"Oh and Higgins, apparently your mother died this morning". I know it's bad, but that line makes me laugh so hard every time!
there slew they the goats yea and placed they the bits in little pots there endith the lesson one of my fav john cleese quotes
…but you're so strong and well, just so super - fantastic :D
In a strange way this film encapulates pretty much all there is to know about the condition of being a human. This is a wonderful film and such a pity the Python team didn't enjoy making it.
"History plagiarises Monty Python" - John Cleese
siii !!!😆😂😃
That is my favorite part of the whole movie! It sounds kinda funny at first but it is absolutely loaded with commentary.
I also remember going to school and getting this sort of prayer service going on. Worship is such an interesting concept. Prostrating yourself with set out words of thanks, and more significantly, servitude.
But this scene is brilliant. It really is dead on the money, exaggerating everything just enough to identify perfectly the ridiculousness of church worship. Subtle enough to make you realise those parts that are actually just this, but in different, pre-ordained wording.
Fuck it's weird.haha
I've always wondered that, too. I know what a cormorant is (birds of the genus Phalacrocorax), and I've always assumed it was just included for the absurdity of having a school cormorant. So much of Python, though, particularly this sketch, is societal commentary that I bet it was intended to be a comment on the absurdity of taking school mascots so seriously. Whenever I think about that line, "rubbing linseed oil in the school cormorant," I crack up. It just sounds so ridiculous.
"Some characteristics of Dadaism's most profound characteristics include humor, whimsy, artistic freedom, emotional reaction, irrationalism, and spontaneity."
What made Python great was insightful and educated commentary on society coupled with the ridiculous and irreverent.
This is the thruth of our world..
I wonder why real churches can't be like this one - seriously. The prayer is much more personal and comprehensible, witty, yet without blasphemy. Most adorable thing.
Saw this for the first time in Finland as a teenager. Had no idea what the hell "rubbing linseed oil into the cormorant" could truly signify, but had an instinct already then it referred to some idiotic British idiocyncracy. It was one of the many Python monologues me and my friends memorized 😂
MOVIE TRIVIA: As one of the Cast Members in this, (playing the school boy on the right 2nd row up next to the teacher) first seen messing about in the tracking shot, and twice on the right in the fixed shot close ups, we shot this on Location in the hall at a school in Bushey Hertfordshire.
If you look closely you can see some of the school kids from the school holding a sheet of paper inside the books, which had the lines for the song on it.
All the boys seen in the opening close up tracking shots are Professional Actors,(Stage School trained), the rest are kids from the School we filmed it at, I was 20 years old at the time, (playing a 15 year old), as were a few of us in this, that had attended the Barbara Speake Stage School, and had worked on many TV and Film Productions before it, Like Grange Hill,(BBC), Full Circle 1976, Absolution 1978, The Gentle Touch (LWT), to name a few.
"To keep China British" XD
"Gosh! We're all really impressed down here, i can tell you"
Palin is hilarious.
i just love them! they are the best!
Monty Python forever!
Absolutely brilliant!!
Gosh! We're all really impressed down here I can tell you!
This bit, what have the Roman’s ever done for us?
And the Latin lesson might be my favorite Cleese bits.
We try to remember all the names of those from the Sudbury area, who so valiantly gave their lives to Keep China British!
In your face Malcolm Muggeridge.
Monty Python is the perfect cure to a shitty day.
Brilliant
The church used here is the one we used as a Masonic Temple in the film 'Chemical Wedding' - Simon Callow does a wonderful Pythonish performance as Aliester Crowley in the film.
They're THE MASTERS. And that's that!
I spy with my little eye... Mr. Eric Idle attempting to blend in with the kids. :3
I spy with my BORED little eye something beginning with T 🙄
i love this movie :)
The absolutely lifeless and rote way they recite liturgy and sing hymns is exactly the way the Methodist church I was raised in did things, everything devoid of emotion or thought, people just doing what they're told, no matter how senseless.
@Truth118 I went to a chruch of england school, where we had to go to church sometimes instead of learning on "sacred days". It is exactly like this
'by the town of sudbury and people from the sudbury area'!!
Im from sudbury!!
I remember they used to scare the shit out of us when we were children saying god will smite us for being bad and such so the hymn makes a perfect satire.
This was exactly what it was like in my school
@comodocomodos True. You can read the Bible and still not see that it could be true. Like I said it's a personal thing between you and God and you really do have to open yourself up to see things you may never have noticed several times while reading it. Always something new to learn. It was written very long ago by very different people, also true. God can use anyone even the worst sinner - and change them. They still retain an original personality, they're not robots [count]
OUT! OF BOUNDS!
Best hymn ever =D
I'm just here because the Queen's funeral reminded me of this sketch.
Fantastic. Reminds me of my old boys school and the crap we had to take.
@comodocomodos [count] For example, in 1st Corinthians Paul states that the Holy Spirit did not ask him to say the following, but that it allowed for him to-- and then he went on to say that women should not talk in the Temple. That was a cultural thing that God allowed men to do-- which is often because the hardness of the hearts of people wants something like that and there would be a fight over it.
While your probably right about Pyton's intent, I agree with agora. If God does exist, the idea that his lowly creations feel the need to tell him how big and fantastic he is is ridiculous and quite humorous. God is all knowing and loving, but don't dare forget to prop up his ego!
@comodocomodos I understand that. There are lots of people out there who grew up in churches and were either treated poorly, or just plain didn't get any questions answered properly, or felt forced to believe in what the church believed.
@comodocomodos As I meant to say, it is a very personal journey to find out what is true and what is not, and who is God. You do have to pray about it, you do have to read, study things, everything, anything but you have to pray that God show himself to you, and help you to understand and find the truth. You have to really open your heart to the possibilities and accept that some truth might be hard to hear, might not be what you want-- but it can be proven.
If Palin was the priest, and prayers were this funny, I might've actually gone to the church for a change.
Does anyone know the source of that picture (it should be from this sketch) where John "reads" the book and has an "amazed" expression? I saw the movie 2 times on a few days (both the normal version and the director's cut) and I'm sure that it's not in the movie
"...and place they the bits in little pots"
Classic
That must have been very traumatic for Jenkins while in assembly.
I think of this hymn whenever I see a "pray for japan" badge.
@comodocomodos [count] Many things can go wrong in this world, many people can try to destroy all that God attempts to do, and maybe there are some things missing or rough translations but the message is still there, and you CAN figure it out when you read it with an open heart and pray for answers and understanding.
Works for all 3 "abrahamic" religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam)
gosh we're all really impressed down here i can tell you..
"oh you are so big, so absolutely huge. gosh, we're all really impressed down here."
^^that's what she&her friends said.
@comodocomodos [count] In order to not offend others. There was a huge argument in the early church wether gentiles who become Christian should get circumsized. In the end they said, look this is just an outward thing in the flesh that doesnt matter but we should do it just to put at ease the Jewish people who really don't think it's right not to be circumsized. Because people are so wrapped up in how they think things should be, God sometimes allows traditions and cultural things like this.
That's actually a good song to sing for church goers. LOL. It works is all im saying.
A cormorant is a bird.
+David Johnson The fact that you feel it necessary to say this suggests to me that you didn't go to a British school, or if you did, not before 1985. Am I right?
@@jjdecani
Why '85 Decani....??
one day I hope to take the butterdish to balshazar and the tent peg to the house of rashamon
@comodocomodos [count] God does allow for us to have differences of opinion, in fact some times the diciples bickered over who should go with who to spread the gospel because they could see each other's weaknesses, etc. God didn't pop out of the clouds and tell them specifically how they should deal with every little difference of opinion on things. And he does allow for certain cultural differences to govern different choices [count]
me too and I'm also an atheist.....this could go on for a while
@comodocomodos He has given humans work to do, part of that is prophets, some are preachers, etc. We don't follow the person we follow the mesage God has given through them, or to them. But He makes sure that we can tell which is which. You have to study for yourself.
It's not just like church it's not just like church it's not just like church church doesn't sound this crazy or mocking of the very tolerant and patient god we all have up in the sky over there and there and there too.
oh lord you are soo big!!! LMAOO dont simmer us in a stock CLASSIC!! this is exactly how the church hyms soud like in real life it all comes down to us fear ing god and praising him by calling him great and powerful
love monty python and im a girl LOL
@comodocomodos They were very particular about copying the scriptures. Each word was written, checked, double checked by more than one person before going on to the next. Secondly, God knew people would have power over the Bible and so some things were written prophetically because they talked out against those who would have the power to destroy it. [Revalation and Daniel] --[count]
@takineko
Absolutely correct ... there was no doubt when he revealed himself to me.
@comodocomodos yep, there is sin everywhere, churches are no exception. In fact they are attacked with temptation more often than others it seems. I'm glad other people are not my example, but Jesus is. I have to learn to forgive them and help them just as anyone else I encounter in the world, and they will hopefully forgive me for my faults too. We're no better or worse than eachother, everyone has sinned and come short fo the glory of God.
and there slew they the goats, yay....and place they the bits....in little pots.
For a superbly witty, good humoured look at the meaning of life try ' The reason driven life' by top author Robert M Price.
Also authors John W. Loftus, Dan Barker, Valerie Tarico, Victor J. Stenger on youtube
I would start going to church if Micheal Palin was the vicar, and I'm an atheist!
How many of those people really agreed with this mockery and how many just did it for money?
+gonzobrains They're British, so it's odds on they pretty much all agreed with it. Appropriate handle, BTW. Well done, stout fellow.
@MrLOLOL98 Good answer! You clearly looked at it for a while.
so gallantly gave their lives to keep china british....major belly laugh.. superb.
He just reminds me of the headteacher in Clockwise in this! LOL!
@NickeyWhitfield You're Welcome!
@takineko nope, that sounds like prayers to god alright...they are explaining to christians what they really are praying for
my school was just like that. Chapel every morning, ugh
A lot of dead mothers at your school.
@comodocomodos [count] when it comes to modern issues Bible study clarifies what is right and wrong pretty easily. It might not use the word abortion, but when it comes to children it is expressed over and over that it is a gift from God. It is also said our bodies do not belong to us, they belong to God. If you have faith, God will help you to take care of that child, or find someone who can. Gay rights can seem tricky [count]
@comodocomodos When you study the Bible you find proof that the prophets aren't making things up when comparing them to eachother, and to history. The biggest proof is that God is very personal, and when you open yourself up to Him and ask Him to show you what you can believe he reveals himself to you in a very real way-- so that you have no doubt. You might even experience something miraculous but its just for you, between the two of you. [count]
I think it was a sly reference to a sketch in their first TV series that was about camel-spotting (itself a spoof of the strange habit of train-spotting), which fits as camels are native (though not exclusive) to Biblical regions.
@comodocomodos With God's power, He can help us to not sin. We have to have faith in Him. Yeah it makes sense we're still going to be weak in faith and mess up from time to time, and we should repent from our heart when that happens, but not be crushed by guilt over our weakness.
I believe what the prophets said that Jesus said was correct. I believe they were true prophets, and it's ok to quote from them.
To the house of gash bill bethuel bazder....
he who brought the butter dish to balthezar and the tent peg to the house of rashamon.
hahahahahahaha
love it
smoking the good stuff
"...And spotted twice they the camels before the third hour..."
It's so meaningless.
A cormorant, a medium-large bird assumed to be a sort of mascot for the school.
@comodocomodos When He's given fair warning He's going to do something, and other's try to go against Him, there are going to be reprocussions. I don't see any showing off there. God shows His power so that others might believe. He doesn't always show it when people disobey, He also shows it to help those who love Him to grow in their faith.
@comodocomodos Yes, I read it in the Bible. But also, if you're still questioning the prophets you should study their prophecies and see if they came true for yourself.
God repremanded his people, and his prophets even as he allowed for them to do things that were not His vision for them.
And then the teacher tells the boy about the death of his mother totally without compassion and care, as he feels it's just an unimportant event that the lord has made to happen and that's how it is.
In reality there is no god and the death of a loved one is very tragic, especially for children!
And as the ancient Epicurus has said(in a nutshell): There is no god, because the world would have to be perfect if he would exist!!
Is it LotR names he is using at the beginning?
"to Keep China Britsh"!
Brilliant!
@comodocomodos [count] The best proof are the prophecies. Sadly few people realize that the Bible itself holds the keys to decoding them. You don't make up your own interpretation, or go to some one else, the Bible will flat out tell you what the symbolic meanings are. And they were written many years before the events took place.
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I would too! And I'm a Catholic!.....
2:10 my school assemblies are so like this. But they're serious. And I go to an all-girls school.
Depends on the church. Maybe most Catholics, though.
hahah so funny!
@comodocomodos It is true that some people may have some of the truth but not all of it, others follow what men tell them and dont study the Bible for themselves. Also satan does do his best to cause confusion and create false religions-- [please don't take that to mean everyone is going to hell or is stupid or evil or something] The Bible holds all the keys to unlocking the truth. It shows the call signs of a real prophet and a fake one, it even has the keys to read Revelation in it.