Orange order to protest against Pope

fisgon

These guys crack me up. A spokesman for the orange order in Norn Iron was just on the news, he is calling for all members in the UK to protest against the pope's visit there... on biblical grounds.

Now I have no problem protesting against any pope, wherever he is visiting, but the explanation the order spokesman gave had me laughing out loud. These have got to be, next to the Shinners, and possibly Coir,the most stuck-in-the-past, stubborn, brainless, completely-deluded bunch of believers on this island. Apparentlly there is no biblical justification for the existence of a head of a christian church, and so, despite all the sectarian implications for this in the North, where people have been maimed and killed over similar ideas, they are intent on protesting Benny's visit.

The reason I find it so laughable is that you have one bunch of deluded crackpots protesting the visit of the leader of another crowd of faith-enslaved believers because they are right and the 'Roman Catholics' are wrong. Of course Benedict has called the prods 'not a real church'. They are all so sure that they are right, so sure that they, and only they, are in possession of the Truth, and yet both so equally deluded. It's like a gang of square-earthers standing outside the Flat-Earth convention, protesting at what a ludicrous idea an earth without corners is.

hiorta

Both sides revealing the real purpose of theology in their contrived spat.

Zombrex

fisgon wrote: »

you have one bunch of deluded crackpots protesting the visit of the leader of another crowd of faith-enslaved believers...

oooh .. controversial

Galvasean

fisgon wrote: »

They are all so sure that they are right, so sure that they, and only they, are in possession of the Truth, and yet both so equally deluded.

Some might say arrogant...

eoin5

Well they cant just say 'because hes on their side' so they may as well say that as any other lie.

strobe

Orange Order? Are those pathetic, KKK wannabe wastes of human organs still in existance?

Zombrex

strobe wrote: »

Orange Order? Are those pathetic, KKK wannabe wastes of human organs still in existance?

oooh .. controver ... wait a minute

old hippy

Dismantle both organisations, I say.

Skrynesaver

strobe wrote: »

Orange Order? Are those pathetic, KKK wannabe wastes of human organs still in existance?

I believe the correct term is oxygen thieves

Arcus Arrow

I hope they do protest the little git. If there was no papacy there probably would never have been an Orange Order. The papacy is the problem the Orange Order is the reaction (or over reaction as the case might be).

Before Herr Ratzinger gets to the UK does anyone know where I can get paper mache stature of Henry VIII made?

PeterIanStaker

F***ing reactionary morons, just giving ammunition (pun?) to the RCC defenders.

Religion destroyed Ireland.

toiletduck

Shouldn't the Orange order have better things to do? Like debate which is better; Fanta or Club?