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#1386368
Horsefeathers
"I had read somewhere that during the London blitz that angels may have taken over the controls of RAf fighters when the pilots were killed."
I think I would have rather had them cutting down Nazi planes with their flaming swords than flying planes with dead pilots. It would have been more useful.
3/27/2012 7:20:03 AM
#1386370
John_in_Oz
Oh good! We can abolish military budgets and rely on angels instead.
3/27/2012 7:24:13 AM
#1386371
rubber chicken
They obviously weren't very good at flying the planes then as each plane with a dead pilot crashed. Not one managed to land back on an airfield.
3/27/2012 7:25:31 AM
#1386385
Kuno
I think you confused the summaries of two episodes.
It was the Daleks that defended Britain (as part of a ploy).
It were the Angels that had the phone box…
3/27/2012 7:49:01 AM
#1386435
Berny
It's from an idiot who posts on Raptard ready, so of course it's stupid.
Moving on. Nothing more to see here.
3/27/2012 9:49:30 AM
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3/27/2012 10:10:25 AM
#1386446
pete
And then the planes crashed. One would think that angels would be more competent pilots.
3/27/2012 10:28:07 AM
#1386471
Osiris
I also read that the Nazis were experimenting with inter-dimensional travel to unlock the power of the Ogdru Jahad.
Guess that means you just shouldn't believe everything you read.
3/27/2012 10:58:08 AM
#1386496
unok
Kuno:
No, it was the most recent Christmas episode.
3/27/2012 11:20:30 AM
#1386508
Greater Good
Go home, people. Adrian wins, forever.
3/27/2012 11:49:54 AM
#1386521
Sasha
This is so pathetic that it makes me sad, the childlike desire to believe in supernatural beings rather than flesh-and-blood mortals. Do fundies ever grow up?
3/27/2012 12:20:42 PM
#1386526
THE GOD EMPEROR OF MANKIND
ADRIAN MY SON, YOU DO ME PROUD.
3/27/2012 12:23:33 PM
#1386546
Martha Jones
I read somewhere that cats would take over the world by 2000. Reading something doesn't mean anything unless there's proof for it. And how come God's always on the winning side, eh? Awfully convinent of him.
3/27/2012 12:48:43 PM
#1386574
Brendan Rizzo
Translation:
"If it's written down, it must be true! All hail the Flying Spaghetti Monster!"
3/27/2012 1:32:37 PM
#1386608
Atheissimo
The Blitz had nothing to do with RAF fighter pilots, those are two different theatres of war.
The Blitz was all about Nazi night bombing against which fighters were of no practical defence because night fighters couldn't operate in anything like the numbers needed to worry a flight of bombers
Where the RAF pilots came in was preventing day attacks against British military targets in the south of England over counties such as Kent, Essex and over the English Channel. Over 100 miles from London in most cases.
By the time of the Blitz the Battle of Britain had already been won. Hitler had been forced to call off day time raids on British airfields and factories because the Luftwaffe's losses were too great to sustain. The Blitz, though devastating, was of no military value.
3/27/2012 3:14:27 PM
#1386614
Reynardine
@Duelist: the person who submitted the quote, not the one who made it.
3/27/2012 3:46:19 PM
#1386642
Alencon
Why wait for the pilots to be killed? Why not just swat the nazis out of the air ahead of time?
3/27/2012 5:58:25 PM
#1386646
John
If the angels really wanted to be useful, they'd have taken over the controls before the pilots were killed. It's just like with Sodom and Gomorrah: instead of striking the townspeople blind from the git-go, the angels waited until after Lot offered to let the townspeople gang-rape his young, virgin daughters. After the townspeople refused to rape the poor, terrified girls, then the angels finally admitted that, hey, presto, they had the ability to deal with the problem themselves all along.
3/27/2012 6:10:16 PM
#1386649
Philbert McAdamia
Ha! Those were never angels. They were flying pigs.
It came to me in a dream.
3/27/2012 6:41:08 PM
#1386656
to quote Brian Griffin
"are you sure it was a book, are you sure it wasn't nothing?"
3/27/2012 7:29:42 PM
#1386687
Vince
Now I've read it somewhere too. Funny how that works.
Still bullshit.
3/27/2012 11:57:35 PM
#1386688
Justanotheratheist
And yet no single seater aircraft with a dead pilot at the controls ever made a safe landing at an airfield.
I wonder why...
3/28/2012 12:17:29 AM
#1386692
Paler_Face
I got this bullshit poured into my brain when I was a kid along with hosts of other tall tales about how God sent angels to protect the True Believers from Evil.
Eventually I grew up, turned on my brain, and unleashed my skepticism on these stories. They didn't last long.
3/28/2012 1:36:08 AM
#1386695
Pule Thamex
Hmmm! So that's how easy it is to believe in silly things. Silly things like the rapture, for instance.
3/28/2012 2:45:47 AM
#1386764
Sentry Gun
I had read somewhere that during the London blitz, RAF pilots were cold blooded motherfuckers that defended their home contry, their contrymen and anything they standed for with only their reflexes, ability, all the flying steel engineering could provide them, and that some of them gave their lives to it.
Giving this achievment to your magical imaginary frind is soiling their memory.
3/28/2012 6:31:43 AM
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