Ha, take that Ratzinger!

robindch

Ireland announces that its Embassy in the Vatican is to close.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2011/1103/breaking60.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15586816

It's a sure sign of the secular agenda, atheist Labour, "godless" Gilmore, thumbing the nation's nose at Truth, required by the Lisbon Treaty, won't somebody think of the children, etc, etc.

/looks forward to the closure, in retaliation, of the Papal Nunciature in Dublin.

Mistress 69

robindch wrote: »

Ireland announces that its Embassy in the Vatican is to close.

As the Irish Times LINK says

The Government believes that Ireland’s interests with the Holy See can be sufficiently represented by a non-resident Ambassador," he said. "The Government will be seeking the agreement of the Holy See to the appointment of a senior diplomat to this position."


Internet Communication...... Apple I phone4s will fit the bill perfectly. As the Ambassador no longer needs a state chauffer he can drive his 3.0 litre A6 himself and dictate vocally his message to the Holy See and his onboard i4s will automatically type a text to Holy SeE. Steve got it right....

Major Apple fan..........kind of fancy jobs like that!



ps We got married in a little church in Rome....................Rome is wow, would hate to be the Ambassador recalled... words could not describe..... as the old song says ...''Greece is the word''

Mistress 69

Polynomial...... ! googleyed ... as one usually is at 2am.... Elaborate...in the AM...

seamus

An Irish embassy in the Vatican was a purely ceremonial/sentimental thing anyway, no doubt seen as "essential" by DeValera and his ilk.

There are no Irish citizens residing in the Vatican (at least none who don't also have Vatican citizenship), and there never will be, so an embassy there is utterly pointless.

Penn

This is definitely a great move though, and a huge step forward in the right direction. Could benefit the Vatican too. They got complacent and arrogant. They need to be reminded that religion is not necessary for a society to run, and they should be grateful to be so entwined in some countries. And if they abuse their position, they may lose that position

Delirium

Isn't the embassy located in Rome, as the Vatican isn't big enough to accomodate the real estate to build embassies?

sensibleken

Maybe if we re-establish it if they could ask god to sort out the recession. You know, if he's not too busy doing someone elses wife

Penn

koth wrote: »

Isn't the embassy located in Rome, as the Vatican isn't big enough to accomodate the real estate to build embassies?

From the Independant:

Around €1.4m has been spent refurbishing Villa Spada, the embassy to the Holy See in Rome, which was recently valued at €25m. The building is now going to be used by the Irish Embassy in Rome, which will move out of its rented accommodation.

fitz0

Distinct lack of a papal boyband in this thread.

I was pretty happy to hear this, it's pretty long overdue given the cuts of the past few years. I'm more disappointed by the Iranian embassy closure, the timing with the US/Israel - Iran posturing is a little uncomfortable. Feckin Israelis are going to get us nuked.

pH

fitz0 wrote: »

Distinct lack of a papal boyband in this thread.

I am deeply dissapointed that the photoshop has not been forthcoming.

strobe

Mistress 69 wrote: »

Polynomial...... ! googleyed ... as one usually is at 2am.... Elaborate...in the AM...

This might sound weird but...bear with me, please...

Where you, by any chance, separated at birth from your twin brother?

recedite

Around €1.4m has been spent refurbishing Villa Spada, the embassy to the Holy See in Rome, which was recently valued at €25m. The building is now going to be used by the Irish Embassy in Rome, which will move out of its rented accommodation.

Hard to believe we rented some offices for the Italian embassy all those years, while this splendid gaff was only round the corner.
The Holy See is of course a mickey mouse "state" created by Mussolini and the (then) pope in a deal to enhance each others power and control over people.

passarellaie

What a pathetic little of contempibiles who will fly back to Mama as they approach the whole in the ground awaiting them.Kim il sung would be deligted with his little protege they had many chats in Pyongyang in the sixties about the evils of the Vatican

MagicMarker

Can we move all of passarellaie's posts to the Funny Side of Religion thread please?

Turtwig

passarellaie wrote: »

What a pathetic little of contempibiles who will fly back to Mama as they approach the whole in the ground awaiting them.Kim il sung would be deligted with his little protege they had many chats in Pyongyang in the sixties about the evils of the Vatican

Sarky

I know, right? I think he might be on drugs.

passarellaie

Sarky wrote: »

I know, right? I think he might be on drugs.

I thought you were all on those things being unable to cope with the demands of humanism!!!!!

Turtwig

passarellaie wrote: »

I thought you were all on those things being unable to cope with the demands of humanism!!!!!

Ahh but you see my beautiful entity we are not all humanists.

Sarky

Oh I'm high all right. High on life. High on the sheer joys of living an existence where I own my decisions, where I don't have to bend a knee to a psychotic tyrant of a creator for the benefit of a few despicably evil bureaucratic priests claiming to be the sole arbiters of what's right and wrong.

And beer. But mostly life.

The demands of humanism aren't all that demanding. I mean, you might have some trouble getting over your hatred of the gays, but that's your problem. They're a lovely bunch of people. And man, are some of them ever good kissers. Put some girls to shame, they would.

Turtwig

Sarky wrote: »

And beer. But mostly life.

*Gestures at fellow mob of teetotalers*
SARKY DRINKS BEER! CRUCIFY HIM/HER!!!:mad:

Sarky

YOU CANT CRUCIFY ME I QUIT

Turtwig

Sarky wrote: »

YOU CANT CRUCIFY ME I QUIT

It's too late for you sir/madam, once you've had an infatuation for beer it's too late . . . However, now that you have repented your sins the mode of death will be something more humane but still incredibly painful to ensure your physical body suffers for its alcoholic pleasure misdoings.

Galvasean

MagicMarker wrote: »

Can we move all of passarellaie's posts to the Funny Side of Religion thread please?

I think a HateMail sticky is on order....

The Quadratic Equation

It's intresting when you research the full list of countries that we've now joined that don't have a Vatican embassy.

Looks like Comrade Gilmour has had to take the reigns since Inda was caught telling lies.
When is the legislation for abortion on demand coming in ?

Dudess

passarellaie wrote: »

What a pathetic little of contempibiles who will fly back to Mama as they approach the whole in the ground awaiting them.Kim il sung would be deligted with his little protege they had many chats in Pyongyang in the sixties about the evils of the Vatican

A non stop repeat of the same old tired lines in the space of a couple of hours does not look intelligent.

Fresh material please.

strobe

The Quadratic Equation wrote: »

It's intresting when you research the full list of countries that we've now joined that don't have a Vatican embassy.

Looks like Comrade Gilmour has had to take the reigns since Inda was caught telling lies.
When is the legislation for abortion on demand coming in ?

If I could be so bold as to recycle the previous post to make a point...

Dudess wrote: »

A non stop repeat of the same old tired lines [...]

Fresh material please.

smokingman

The Quadratic Equation wrote: »

When is the legislation for abortion on demand coming in ?

It's on the way as soon as we figure out how to stop your crowd from sticking their knobs into children...that might take a while given we can't get a straight answer from your "moral guardians" on that so I wouldn't worry about it being soon.

fisgon

The idea that any country has an embassy in the Vatican is a joke. It's not a real country, just the administrative HQ of a puffed up religious organisation that thinks it's a country.

MrPudding

The Quadratic Equation wrote: »

When is the legislation for abortion on demand coming in ?

not soon enough. Why? Are you worried that your precious priests won't have enough kids to rape?

MrP

MagicMarker

I can't wait for abortion to be legal, I've always wanted an abortion.

The Quadratic Equation

smokingman wrote: »

It's on the way as soon as we figure out how to stop your crowd from sticking their knobs into children...that might take a while given we can't get a straight answer from your "moral guardians" on that so I wouldn't worry about it being soon.

MrPudding wrote: »

not soon enough. Why? Are you worried that your precious priests won't have enough kids to rape?

MrP

MagicMarker wrote: »

I can't wait for abortion to be legal, I've always wanted an abortion.

Perfect Examples

recedite

Reuters; Vatican is "extremely irritated" by our stunning decision
:pac::pac::pac:

Diplomats said the Irish move might sway others to follow suit to save money because double diplomatic presences in Rome are expensive.

Doctor DooM

the Vatican sees its diplomatic role as promoting human values.

lol

MrPudding

The Quadratic Equation wrote: »

Perfect Examples

Of what?

Have you ever actually contributed anything remotely useful to this forum? Clearly you have issues and can't stand us heathens, but you could at least try to contribute instead of you stupid little one liners that I presume you think are highly intelligent and funny.

MrP

rainbow kirby

recedite wrote: »

Reuters; Vatican is "extremely irritated" by our stunning decision
:pac::pac::pac:

World's smallest violin...

MrPudding

rainbow kirby wrote: »

World's smallest violin...

Oh, oh, I know this one. Is it, per chance, playing just for them?

mrP

Corkfeen

Though this would be appropriate for passarellaie and The Quadratic Equation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn5L6aYUtVU

recedite

How about this one to celebrate with;

The Dance of The Gay Communist Atheists......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WpYWpN0VXU

The Quadratic Equation

The media keep very quiet about Gilmore's past.

Member of :

Official Sinn Fein
The Workers Party
Democratic Left

The Workers Party, in which Gimore had a very active role, were fully supportive of the USSR's regieme, while they suppressed millions of eastern europeans, particulary with regard to freedom of religion. Of course after the USSR collapsed the rats deserted the sinking ship that was the workers party and set up "democratic" left.

Comrade Gilmore must have dreemed he would be in a Government one day, cutting off diplomatic ties with the Vatican, he just had to dream up an excuse to do so.

Sarky

And Ratzinger was in the Hitler Youth. That's much worse. Your move.

:coolface:

The Quadratic Equation

Sarky wrote: »

And Ratzinger was in the Hitler Youth. That's much worse. Your move.

:coolface:

So were millions of Germans against their will.

Gimore was a volunteer and a leader. Your move.

Sarky

I'm fairly sure gilmore hasn't raped any children, or covered for someone who did. Does that count?

MagicMarker

The Quadratic Equation wrote: »

So were millions of Germans against their will.

I thought god gave us free will?

Turtwig

The Quadratic Equation wrote: »

So were millions of Germans against their will.

Gimore was a volunteer and a leader. Your move.

Anyone who has previously joined the official Sinn Fein party has relinquished their right to opt out of anything. It's in their party contract.

Also, just curious, but did Benedict ever apologise for his time in the party?

Corkfeen

I love the fact that every few years, the communist threat seems to crop up for no apparent reason. On a related note, anyone growing a moustache for Movember? It's clearly further Communism... Mine is looking rather like this Stalin's. God damn Commies are hiding around every corner.

Dudess

TQE, why don't you just accept not everyone believes what you believe? Jeez, why are you so angry about something people can't really help? Resorting to blurting out that everyone here is a Stalinist because they're non believers is just silly hon and something only a young un should be carrying on with.

You're being very unchristian and mean too. I wouldn't barge into Christianity to attack folk in there for not having the same belief system as I.

Now run along dear... /ruffles hair

The Quadratic Equation

MagicMarker wrote: »

I thought god gave us free will?

Correct. Including the free will to force other people to comply with yours.

Dudess

The Quadratic Equation wrote: »

MagicMarker wrote: »

I thought god gave us free will?

Correct. Including the free will to force other people to comply with yours.

Something the Vatican wouldn't mind I've no doubt...

The Quadratic Equation

Malty_T wrote: »

Anyone who has previously joined the official Sinn Fein party has relinquished their right to opt out of anything. It's in their party contract.

Also, just curious, but did Benedict ever apologise for his time in the party?

Gimore volunteered, and could opt out at any time, all Germans children were forced to join the Nazi Youth. So would you consider all those german children as "guilty" as Benedict ?

MagicMarker

The Quadratic Equation wrote: »

Correct. Including the free will to force other people to comply with yours.

And the pope had the free will to refuse but he didn't.

sensibleken

The Quadratic Equation wrote: »

Gimore volunteered, and could opt out at any time, all Germans children were forced to join the Nazi Youth. So would you consider all those german children as "guilty" as Benedict ?

you do know your constructing a massive ad hominem arguement right? might you be better served spending your time constructing an arguement that is actually valid as opposed to ad homs and godwins.

start here: what use is an embassy in the vatican?