Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
Discuss.
I couldn’t get no silver,
I couldn’t get no gold,
You know that we’re too damn poor to keep you from the Gallows Pole.
Just think how unhappy this joker would have been when they slapped engines on it and flew it to other planets!
Trees are supposed to move. They were designed to sway in the wind. Every forest creature knows the forest spirit is everywhere, and there are no Republicans in the forest, because once the Republicans come there is no forest.
Well that explains the problem fundie Christian homophobes have with fairies.
Obviously those peeps were having way too much fun dancing and celebrating Spring round the Goddess Ashtaroth.
Remember the line about how “my god is a jealous god”? Nothing speaks more to the God made in man’s image argument than that, eh?
All that from a bullfrog. That’s some mighty fine wine.
@3 Not true Uncle Teddy was a Republican. 100 years of National Parks. Our cathedrals are of towering mountains and of rushing water.
@1 You will get a public defender and hopefully a good one, they do exist. And sometimes a rich mans gold and silver can’t keep him from the gallows pole either.
Talking about some totem poles here. Well coyote, raven, and fox chuckle at thee. The Salish do see signs in the heavens sometimes but only when it’s not raining they know they may have missed some sign. It’s not easy to keep young men and women up on the mountains above the clouds. Their mothers miss them too much.
@7 That was then, this is now.