Elvis And Religion

DOC lives his life on the "appeal to authority" plan. If a famous person said something, DOC is impressed, and the words become those by which one ought to live.
 
Miss Anthrope said:
Well, by Doc's "logic", Scientology must be right. Just look all those famous people who are Scientologists! They even have a celebrity center. Does the Vatican have a celebrity center? Hmmm? Hmmm?
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Actually, I think Scientology would have more going for it. Elvis died fat and drug-addled on the toilet. Tom Cruise is an idiot, but he doesn't appear to be a fat, drug-addled idiot. Therefore, Scientology must be right.
 
Lisa Simpson said:
... Therefore, Scientology must be right.
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Plus Priscilla and Lisa Marie are Scientologists.
Therefore, two out of three Presleys prefer Scientology.

BTW, I'm now eagerly awaiting the follow-up thread: "Bigfoot and Religion".
 
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Lisa Simpson said:
Actually, I think Scientology would have more going for it. Elvis died fat and drug-addled on the toilet. Tom Cruise is an idiot, but he doesn't appear to be a fat, drug-addled idiot. Therefore, Scientology must be right.
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But, on the other hand, Elvis was a government agency, funded on the direct orders of Thomas Jefferson.
 
Mojo said:
But, on the other hand, Elvis was a government agency, funded on the direct orders of Thomas Jefferson.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of peanut butter and banana sandwiches.
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It loses some of the poetry, you know?
 
DOC said:
strathmeyer said:
Do you understand why it's a little stupid of you to point out the threads that you have ran away from because people asked you simple questions?
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And by the way, your use of the word stupid is a violation of Randi's rules on civility.
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No it isn't: it describes your arguing tactics as stupid, not you personally.
 
kmortis said:
so, two out of a few bazillion? I think my point is made.
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I think you're missing the point, both songs reached the top 10 in the UK ("the time lords" even made number 1), therfore the USA is a Whovian nation, ALL HAIL TEH TIMELORDS.
 
DOC, are you saying that a Southern pop singer deliberately recorded gospel and sold it for actual money? Whoever heard of such a thing?

Read your bibles and pray, children, for surely these be the last days.
 
Aw hell, I can't help myself

Pray not with vain repetition, after the manner of the heathen, but pray on this wise:

“Elvis, I know that you’re with Jesus now, but if you can hear me, please show me them Powerball numbers in a dream or some damn thing, see the bank are a going to repo my pickup if I don’t score some bucks real quick, Elvis, and I need that sucker, the truck I mean, to haul them racing slicks to Bismarck that I lifted off the Tires R Us loading dock. You was born poor same as me, so you know what it’s like to need something real bad when you ain’t got a fart’s chance in a whirlwind of getting it without somebody deevine helps. Sorry to bother you, Elvis, but I had to let you know what’s up with me these days, it’s a bitch right now and that’s a hunnerd-proof fact. Anyways, amen.”
 
Lisa Simpson said:
Actually, I think Scientology would have more going for it. Elvis died fat and drug-addled on the toilet. Tom Cruise is an idiot, but he doesn't appear to be a fat, drug-addled idiot. Therefore, Scientology must be right.
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I agree, that Tom Cruise is a thin, wide-awake idiot.
 
Southwind17 said:
I think I might have read too deeply into DOC's OP, but my interpretation is possibly an extension of what everybody else believes he's inferring. I thought he was inferring the following logic:

1. Elvis is a revered icon
2. ... but many of Elvis's songs had a highly religious content and/or message
3. If you're non-religious, or better still an atheist (as are many of the JREF members), how can you possibly revere Elvis and all he stood for?
4. If you claim to be non-religious or an atheist but revere Elvis than you're either lying or a hypocrite

Please be clear: my interpretation of his inference; not necessarily my view. I don't want to receive all the flack that DOC might otherwise deserve!
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Regardless of whose view it may be, that is one of the worst lines of reasoning I have seen in the last ... well I've seen worse fairly recently, but it's still remarkably laughable. Just because I like someones singing does not mean I have to consider them an authority in all things religious, or that I have to respect their political opinions, or that I have to respect them in any way whatsoever aside from their singing ability.
 
brodski said:
he was "the ring of rock and roll", he was also a crappy actor, died obese and was a prolific drug user.
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Well, Walter Mathau disagrees about him being a bad actor. And if he was so bad, why did they keep making so many movies with him.

And Jim Morrison died obese and a drug user but nobody ever says much about that. Elvis outlived him and Hendrix by 15 years and Elvis probably played hundreds of more live performances then them, not to mention all the movies.

http://www.elvis.net/whattheysay/theysay.html
 
DOC said:
Well, Walter Mathau disagrees about him being a bad actor. And if he was so bad, why did they keep making so many movies with him.
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$$$$$$$ - that's why.

And Jim Morrison died obese and a drug user but nobody ever says much about that. Elvis outlived him and Hendrix by 15 years and Elvis probably played hundreds of more live performances then them, not to mention all the movies.

http://www.elvis.net/whattheysay/theysay.html
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What does Jim Morrison have to do with anything?
 
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