Posts Tagged ‘Catholic’
Jesus is a biscuit!
Pharyngula comments on Webster Cook – the UCF student who stole a cracker from Catholic Mass and caused “an incident”. Read the Fox story here.
Might it be possible to somehow measure the stupidity that is belief in some deity?
A student doesn’t swallow a cracker and cracks Catholic faith? Next to the Trinity, Transubstantiation is the nec plus ultra of human stupidity.
But really, just how fucking stupid are Catholics?
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Howzit Bernie! JC here my girl…
February 11 1858. The young shepherdess Bernadette Soubirous sees JC in person. At Lourdes, France. Between February and July Bernadette sees JC 18 times. Eighteen times! What is it with God and sheep anyway? Why do God and son always target keepers of sheep? Australia should be some kind of continental shrine, come to think of it.
Terry Pratchett, in Small Gods, muses, “The merest accident of microgeography meant that the first man to hear the voice of (the God) Om, and who gave Om his view of humans, was a shepherd and not a goatherd. They have quite different ways of looking at the world, and the whole of history might have been different. For sheep are stupid and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent and need to be led.”
Anyway, it’s a hundred and fifty years to the day when Bernadette first saw JC and the Catholic Church is bringing its merchandising division to bear. There’ll be festivities until December 8; the Pope will make an appearance (just like JC did – but this time for all to see) and indulgences and candy floss will be on sale.
The shit that people believe!
“A nutter”
Former Prime Minister and current Middle East peace envoy, Anthony (Tony) Blair has become a member of the Roman Catholic Church.
Blair’s former spokesman, Alastair Campbell, once famously told reporters “We don’t do God”. Earlier this year, he told the BBC that he had avoided talking about his religious views while in office for fear of being labelled “a nutter”.
O yeah? Last year, Mr Blair said he had prayed to God when deciding whether or not to send UK troops into Iraq. (God said “Yes, Tony, like I said to George, send ‘em.”)
Being Catholic means that Blair believes that there is an Unoriginate, Sempiternal, Supernatural, Perfect, Omnipotent, Omniscient, Omnipresent, Omnibenevolent, Primum Mobile; Creator and Ruler of the universe and life. And all the Bronze Age tarradiddles cloaked in dark Age ignorance and fear that accompany this ridiculous reification.
But being Anglican meant the same thing. Only different tales. Slightly different.
Then again, being Presbyterian, or Methodist…
Nutter. Indeed.
The world’s foremost Middle East peace envoy believes that death is not the end. And Jews and Arabs do not believe that Jesus is the way and the truth and the life.1 So what if they blow each other to smithereens? It simply hastens the glorious inevitability.
A Middle East peace envoy? Can there be someone less qualified than a Catholic for this crucial job?
Not?
(1) John 14:6 (NIV): Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
(Source: BBC News)
