The Hazards of Belief

Brian Shanahan

ninja900 wrote: »

The web archive.. sounds like the go-to place for new happening stuff :cool:

Well it is an archive of an article from this year.

The website itself is still extant. I'll give it this, though, it is ecumencial in its conspiracy theories, taking liberally from both left and right.

PopePalpatine

Yeah...I don't think I'll look at a site called "usahitman.com" while at uni...or anywhere else for that matter.

Hotblack Desiato

Yeah, pretty dodgy sounding domain name, 'tis method in the madness after all

Genghiz Cohen

According to Google
"usahitman.com/‎
The best conspiracy and alternative news. Our site is under attack by the TPTB. Wake up and receive the truth."

PopePalpatine

"Our site is under attack by the The Powers That Be". Nope, just the grammar police. :pac:

Links234

posted in t'uther thread, but this deserves to be here too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3_hKv4pEM4

FouxDaFaFa

Some relics of St.Anthony's are on display tonight in Galway Cathedral, near where I live. When I heard about it I assumed "relics" meant "a goblet that belonged to him" or "a piece of cloth he touched".

Turns out it is actually one of St. Anthony's ribs and his tongue.

Now, look, I'm all for letting religious people go about their business but am I the only one who is confused by this?

Would it not be some kind of desecration to take someone's remains on a worldwide tour?

I mean, you spend your whole life being such a good catholic that you're made a saint after you die and you're rewarded by having your tongue brought from church to church like a side-show?

*shudder*

PopePalpatine

If St. Anthony is as long dead as I think he is...

...surely his real tongue has long since decomposed?

Turtwig

Where is the Silver tongue?

recedite

A church that has relics brings in extra cash.

Bannasidhe

recedite wrote: »

A church that has relics brings in extra cash.

Soooo much cash that they used to steal them from each other.

FouxDaFaFa

They call it the Incorruptible Tongue.

I'm not even kidding.

(I have no idea how it's preserved).



WHAT THE FCUK?!

Sarky

Just replace it with some beef jerky every fifty years, bingo, immortal relic.

Banbh

Traffic delays were reported on RTE due to the throng at the tongue thing.

Obliq

FouxDaFaFa wrote: »

They call it the Incorruptible Tongue.

I'm not even kidding.

(I have no idea how it's preserved).



WHAT THE FCUK?!

I'm sorry....again, is it just me or is that gold frame distinctly vaginal looking?

(could be just me - it's in and around a full moon....

FouxDaFaFa

^^

I actually thought the same thing but thought the topic was suitably disgusting already.

Nodin

FouxDaFaFa wrote: »

Some relics of St.Anthony's are on display tonight in Galway Cathedral, near where I live. When I heard about it I assumed "relics" meant "a goblet that belonged to him" or "a piece of cloth he touched".

Turns out it is actually one of St. Anthony's ribs and his tongue.

Now, look, I'm all for letting religious people go about their business but am I the only one who is confused by this?

Would it not be some kind of desecration to take someone's remains on a worldwide tour?

I mean, you spend your whole life being such a good catholic that you're made a saint after you die and you're rewarded by having your tongue brought from church to church like a side-show?

*shudder*

...after we find Shergar with it, we can send it over to the Brits so they can have a goo for Lord Lucan.

Nodin

"BROADCASTER and columnist Fr Brian D'Arcy has said his censure by the Vatican "destroyed" him "as a human being and as a priest" and almost caused him to leave the priesthood.

Recalling the events that led to his rap on the knuckles from the Vatican, Fr D'Arcy said that in 2010 he was formally censured by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF).

The then head of the CDF wrote to the Superior General of his religious order, the Passionists, accusing him of being "a source of great scandal".
Fr D'Arcy received a formal warning that he must cease being critical of the Vatican and stop questioning its rules on celibacy, homosexuality, divorce and remarriage or face excommunication."

"Father D'Arcy told the Irish Independent that he would quit the church if he is censured by the Congregation of the Faith over his new book."

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/ill-quit-priesthood-if-vatican-censures-my-book-vows-darcy-29688018.html

...sez the man who advocated censorship himself.

Amirani

I'd love to steal the tongue and see how long it takes St. Anthony to help them find it.

It's like a big circus.

robindch

NiallSparky wrote: »

I'd love to steal the tongue and see how long it takes St. Anthony to help them find it.

They may need more than just St Anthony since thirty years of searching haven't located Jesus' foreskin which went missing in 1983:

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/faithbased/2006/12/fore_shame.html

SebBerkovich

robindch wrote: »

They may need more than just St Anthony since thirty years of searching haven't located Jesus' foreskin which went missing in 1983:

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/faithbased/2006/12/fore_shame.html

There are some things that even St Anthony doesn't feel quite right about helping people find.

Pherekydes

robindch wrote: »

They may need more than just St Anthony since thirty years of searching haven't located Jesus' foreskin which went missing in 1983:

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/faithbased/2006/12/fore_shame.html

Ah, so that's what Jewish people do with their sons' foreskins: they keep them safe in case their son becomes a messiah.

robindch

The Sultan of Brunei introduced tough Sharia-law punishments on Tuesday including death by stoning for crimes such as adultery, hailing what he called a "historic" step toward Islamic orthodoxy for his country.

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/sultan-of-brunei/856914.html

Cross that place off my list.

Amirani

Brunei had been ranked fairly high on the human development index, watch that plummet. It'll now become a **** hole.

Pherekydes

NiallSparky wrote: »

Brunei had been ranked fairly high on the human development index, watch that plummet. It'll now become a **** hole.

Maybe they're considering a bid for the FIFA World Cup?

Sarky

Kansas attourney general loses his license for being an overzealous gob****e looking to take down Planned Parenthood no matter the cost.

Of course his lawyer is complaining that they're taking those falsified records and lying to a grand jury completely out of context :pac:

Cabaal

I guess this is a hazzard of belief

http://www.limerickleader.ie/news/local-news/hell-to-pay-as-elderly-clamped-while-visiting-relics-in-limerick-1-5615440

MASS-GOERS have accused a Limerick clamping company of “preying” upon “vulnerable elderly people” who were hit with €100 clamping fines while visiting the relics of St Anthony in St John’s Cathedral.

Frankly I think the council are spot on here, regardless of age you can't just park your car where you want just to go to mass/church. Its a serious safety issue.

Given its St Anthony, maybe he intended them to loose money :pac:

donspeekinglesh

robindch wrote: »

The Sultan of Brunei introduced tough Sharia-law punishments on Tuesday including death by stoning for crimes such as adultery, hailing what he called a "historic" step toward Islamic orthodoxy for his country.

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/sultan-of-brunei/856914.html

Cross that place off my list.

Was only reading this article about the Sultan and his brother the other day. They don't sound very Islamic.

Bannasidhe

donspeekinglesh wrote: »

Was only reading this article about the Sultan and his brother the other day. They don't sound very Islamic.

Neither are the Kuwaiti royal family - I do wonder if the Emir's big Ol lezzie daughter is going to be subjected to their proposed 'gay test'. Presumably after the Emir has finished one of the bacon butties he was so fond off when the crown prince.

Delirium

Cabaal wrote: »

I guess this is a hazzard of belief

http://www.limerickleader.ie/news/local-news/hell-to-pay-as-elderly-clamped-while-visiting-relics-in-limerick-1-5615440

Frankly I think the council are spot on here, regardless of age you can't just park your car where you want just to go to mass/church. Its a serious safety issue.

Given its St Anthony, maybe he intended them to loose money :pac:

It's beside a hospital. If ever there was a place not to park illegally, near a hospital would be up at the top of the list.