OMFG!

[elleng]

[MindMover]

1. OMG ... that is not nice .... almost sacrilegious ....

[FiveGoodMen]

14. I don't know. I think he DID curse a fig tree.

[pokerfan]

19. It's been around for a while

It began as a parody of the Westboro Baptist Church...

A slogan commonly invoked at the counter protests is "God hates figs". Parodying the WBC all-capitals "God hates fags" signs, the counter-protest signs often invoke a passage in the Biblical book of Matthew to justify the claim about God and his feelings about figs. The signs have been noted at counter-protests at the University of Chicago;[155] in Spartanburg, South Carolina;[156] and in Portsmouth, New Hampshire,[157] as well as at the non-WBC-themed Rally to Restore Sanity.[158] The use of the signs has been invoked as a sign of sanity by the ACLU[159] and others.[158]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westboro_Baptist_Church#Parodies

[FiveGoodMen]

20. Figures

Thanks for pointing me to it.

[aquart]

28. Mark 11:12-14 Yup. Mark says it. Believe Mark?

Perfectly innocent tree, doing its best, murdered because it couldn't bear fruit out of season.

AND, BTW, killing it did NOT get Jesus any fruit. So, a nasty, spoiled brat illogical pointless curse.

The fig, tree of knowledge in Eden, was Juno's tree. Bacchus' tree. The hieroglyph for woman was a figure with a basket of figs.

To "make the fig" is a highly sexual gesture in the region.

But the biggie is "pes" (pesh) in Sumerian. Because that word...aside from meaning "fig" and "fig tree" also means
2. to breathe
3. grandson
4. descendant
5. to give birth (to)
6. (to be) pregnant
7. pregnancy
8. to gather
9. (to be) thick
10. (to be) wide

and "three" which is the sacred number of Christianity.

Now why would the gospel writers want to mess with figs?

[roguevalley]

22. brilliant, eleng. awesome

[NYC_SKP]

2. BWAAAHAAAHAAAHAAA!!!

[janlyn]

3. HAAAAAAHAAAAAAHAAAA!!!!

LOL,thanks for the laugh!!!

[elleng]

6. Daughter texted it to me,

couldn't see it clearly on my phone, so went to google images and VOILA!!!

[randome]

4. I saw that headline earlier but I didn't know what it meant.

Hilarious!

[msanthrope]

5. Mark 11: 12-14....he really did smite a fig tree. nt

[Spitfire of ATJ]

12. I always thought that story sucked.

He shows up when figs aren't in season and of course there were no figs on the tree but he felt there should have been for him because he was so special so he cursed the tree.

Gee, I guess that means he really likes figs after all.

Just not that particular tree.

[FiveGoodMen]

16. Kind of fits that pattern

He's supposed to have made quite a few billion of us over the years.

Doesn't find a single one of us acceptable.

But he blames us and not himself!

[GoneOffShore]

7. Just posted on Facebook

This must be making the rounds as two other people did as well.

[elleng]

8. Yes, daughter did the same.

[rurallib]

9. didn't care for fogs either

[The Wielding Truth]

18. "Or the money changers that you, now, think you should worship."

[Freddie]

10. Too funny!

I'd love to put on FB but it may be borderline offensive to my pastor

[msanthrope]

13. Mark 11: 12-14....nt

[ohheckyeah]

11. LOL - good one! n/t

[Whisp]

15. LOL! I saw this before and didn't get it.

*ping!

got it now.

[lovemydog]

17. best meme

of the year!

[jillan]

21. That literally made me laugh out loud :)

[limpyhobbler]

23. See it was all just a big misunderstanding...

[elleng]

24. So much is!

[Mad_Dem_X]

25. Very funny!

I LOL'd.

[MADem]

26. Yeah, and when the cardinals were paging through all the old documents, one of 'em discovered a

transcription error...it said CELEBRATE...not CELIBATE!

D'OH!

[old soul]

27. Wow, you went there?

OMG...(leaving the F out for...um...respect... )

[heaven05]

29. great

[Brigid]

30. That is hilarious!

I really do have to stop reading DU in public place on my blackberry. People are looking at me funny.

I never have understood that story about the fig tree. Never have found a satisfactory explanation of it anywhere.

[elleng]

31. LOL!

[Brigid]

32. You know what else?

This is not the first time this has happened, either.

[elleng]

33. Doesn't surprise me. Don't have blackberry,

but my reaction to reading daughter's "OMFG" text (which I posted here,) got some attention, fortunately just at home!