I thought that at some point today I would blog about something, and the Pope seemed to nominate himself as a convenient piece of ill-tasting, low-hanging fruit. Thing is, even though I have several issues with religion in general, and the behaviour of the Roman Catholic church specifically (vaguely ironically, I am Catholic because I had the watery induction as an infant, and the first rule of Club RatCatcher is you don’t get to leave, you can only be thrown out), I don’t think I could ever articulate my feelings more succinctly than Tim Minchin does in this little ditty:
Lovely.
Now disappear back to your bastion of perpetual human infancy; you pompous remnant of a barbaric age. .
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Tom Lehrer, Vatican Rag?
Now disappear back to your bastion of perpetual human infancy; you pompous remnant of a barbaric age.
Quite right Salty. "F*ck off Minchin: we already have Bill Bailey."
Oh, you meant the Pope...
Leave it you cretin. As a very lapsed Catholic it's the likes of you that could drive me back.
1. Of course you can leave the catholic sect officially.
This is different to excommunication and afterwards, if you need to rejoin if you need to marry in church for cultural reasons, you have to study the catechism (as you had to as a child) before you can take communion again.
2. What's the point of reposting the cringeworthy troll song about Mr. Ratzinger?
If Dawkins was Pope and Ratzinger was Atheist-in-chief, this schoolyard bully strategy may work, but the other way round is not so clever and makes the Popes' point for him... Read some Ratzinger[1] and realise that if anyone has a chance to rekindle Catholicism, he has, and that the shrill secular hate campaign is helping his cause, not ours.
[1] http://popebenedictxvi.blogspot.com/2008/08/presentations-addresses-by-cardinal.html
1. Of course you can leave the catholic sect officially.
This is different to excommunication and afterwards, if you need to rejoin if you need to marry in church for cultural reasons, you have to study the catechism (as you had to as a child) before you can take communion again.
2. What's the point of reposting the cringeworthy troll song about Mr. Ratzinger?
If Dawkins was Pope and Ratzinger was Atheist-in-chief, this schoolyard bully strategy may work, but the other way round is not so clever and makes the Popes' point for him... Read some Ratzinger[1] and realise that if anyone has a chance to rekindle Catholicism, he has, and that the shrill secular hate campaign is helping his cause, not ours.
[1] http://popebenedictxvi.blogspot.com/2008/08/presentations-addresses-by-cardinal.html
The Pope is the greatest man on earth.
Now fuck off back up Richard Dawkin's atheist arsehole.
The age-old school bully technique: scientist, author and writer against the absolute head of a state, the religious leader of 1.1bn people, the man with his own diplomatic service and access to world leaders just a 'phone call away.
Then again maybe said world leaders remember the words of Dawkins; "why should we listen to him because he says he has an invisible friend?".
The Pope rocks :)
God bless the Pope!
:)
If you rinsed yourself off, Mr Slug, you might not be such a miserable bastard :)
Ah, Anon took the words out of my mouth: Curse that scientist for being consistent in his anti-religion stance and harming exactly no-one.
And Berenike: Nah, I'm not miserable enough, or I'd be blogging more.
"F*ck off Minchin: we already have Bill Bailey."
Never mind Bill Bailey, we've still got Richard Stilgoe!
I too was more or less completely lapsed: I read Dawkins and Pullman, then I read Darwin's Origin of Species. It was Darwin's incoherent prose,his disastrous logic, his unscientific habit of sticking in a "let us suppose" and "I presume" every few pages, his lack of an index and diagrams, his amazing nonsense about the evolution of the eye, and most of all the extraordinary anecdotal rigmarole about a swimming bear turning into a whale that was convinced me that the man could hardly be called a scientist at all and that he was merely the High Priest of a crackpot religion. Dawkins is his arse-licking acolyte: but his moral indignation is assumed, as he's on record as saying there's no right and wrong. I'd rather have 100 Jonah stories than Darwin: now I attend traditional latin Masses, as I used to in my youth, and I absolutely despise Dawkins the dung-tongued. Haha, all very funny: but this sort of thing makes me see that if NONSENSE exists so does SENSE, and I now know where to find it.
The Catholic Church isn't a sect: it's the root and branch. The other denominations lying around as self-amputated withered twigs are the sects, the cut-off fragments. Ho-hum, more scientific accuracy I suppose.
Fuch me! there's a lot of god bothers about aren't there... Why do people get so fucking up tight about a wizened old bugger living in luxury in Rome? He's just the head of a money grabbing club that's brain washed millions of uneducated poor people over the years. Do you really believe in God? What bollocks, he's no more real than the tooth fairy or father christmas or leprechauns or fairies down the bottom of the garden. Grow up and use your mind instead of following the sheep. Bloody idiots...
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