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Savage Love SL Letter of the Day: Blown Job Reference
Posted by Dan Savage on Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 2:40 PM
First, your column is awesome. I'm a regular reader along with my wonderful partner and we enjoy the tips on sex, relationships and all the humor & horror that goes along with it. This is a bit pedantic, but it was Lazarus (not Job) who's sores were lapped by dogs. (Shudders.) Job was the lab-rat who's faith was tested by Satan through the removal of protection, wealth, and destruction of his personal health & family members. Hence the phrase "the patience of Job." Sign me...Nick The US Expatriate And Ex-Catholic
Thanks for the correction, Nick...
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Just to be clear, it was God who removed Job's protections, allowing Satan to test his faith. Because if there's one thing God likes to do, it's put people through hell to prove their love for Him.
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cut Danny some slack.
the only parts of the Bible the Priests ever read to him when he was an alter buoy were the parts where it says buttfucking is OK.....
the only parts of the Bible the Priests ever read to him when he was an alter buoy were the parts where it says buttfucking is OK.....
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You can never argue with the Whos. Or is that Whoses.
Wait, was it Whoses who brought the Mormons out of bondage from the Toltecs .... or was it his brother Rushian Limbaughian who broke the chains of slavery imposed by the non-whites upon the 13th tribe ... I'm confuseled now.
Wait, was it Whoses who brought the Mormons out of bondage from the Toltecs .... or was it his brother Rushian Limbaughian who broke the chains of slavery imposed by the non-whites upon the 13th tribe ... I'm confuseled now.
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It was the story of Job that started me questioning the whole religious thing. I was 11 or 12 the first time I remember my pentecostal father preaching the story of Job. My, how they love that story! The congregation was ecstatic! Job stayed true to god, and all his wealth and posesions were returned to him 10 fold, and he got a new wife, and had new kids, praise jesus! And I remember thinking, "yeah, that's nice, but kinda hard on the first set of kids, who had done nothing to deserve being killed by god, other then having a self rightous prick for a father."
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Thank you for this -- I couldn't figure out your Job reference at all, and I don't know the new testament very well. It makes sense now.
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Schmacky @3 wrote:
/sarcasm
Because if there's one thing God likes to do, it's put people through hell to prove their love for Him.Are you sure god's not a woman?
/sarcasm
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Anyone who uses the phrase "the patience of Job" has obviously never read the book. That dude bitched like no other. Not that I blame him.
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Jeez, Dan, you were in JROTC for priests, and you didn't know this? Was it all that pot over the years, or did that stuff just get crowded out of your brain by more interesting stuff?
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job did have festering sores/boils all over his body. a dog or two might have licked them, we don't know. the book of job marked the first time i unequivocally called bullshit on the bible.
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#18 please! Job was the fuckin MAN! NEVER did he waiver in his faith. I wish more people had that resolve. Not the hatin christian shit right, just the strong belief that there's something else out there, and that there's a higher purpose to the maddness(there is). That it'll be alright, and that we're all safe even when we feel most unsafe.
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@19
Spunky, may I compare thee to a cow's anus?
All that comes from you is bullshit.
You cannot back up your faith in a purpose for this existence, or it's faults. That's why you have to call it faith. So why do you assure us "(there is)" a purpose? Do you expect us to take the word of some dick on the Internet named "jizzy"?
Every week I become more sure that "faith" should be the new "F" word.
Spunky, may I compare thee to a cow's anus?
All that comes from you is bullshit.
You cannot back up your faith in a purpose for this existence, or it's faults. That's why you have to call it faith. So why do you assure us "(there is)" a purpose? Do you expect us to take the word of some dick on the Internet named "jizzy"?
Every week I become more sure that "faith" should be the new "F" word.
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I like South Park's take on the story of Job. "Why would God do such a horrible thing to a good person just to prove a point to Satan?"
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@23: It was a bet. Like in the movie "Trading Places" but with less Jamie Lee Curtis and more Dan Ackroyd.
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