haunted bread

endacl

Jesus at the last supper...

<breaks bread> 'This is my body',
<pours wine> 'This is my blood',
<opens jar of mayonnaise> 'This is my...'

'Ah, hold on now a minute J.C!. That's a step too far...', says Judas.

Agricola

I think it's half the reason a lot of auld bachelor farmers head to mass at all. They'd never pass up a free bit to ate like.

endacl

Boggy Turf wrote: »

You cook your deity? Interesting.

Well, the Catholics bake theirs?

jimgoose

endacl wrote: »

Well, the Catholics bake theirs?

Strictly speaking this is not true - the baking is done before the SHAZAM!! bit that transmogrifies the bread into the body-and-blood.

super_furry

Anyway, how come you don't get the wine? It's always just the bread, you never get a sup yourself anymore - the priest necks it all himself.

At least the prods will give you a drop.

JK.BMC

Most people have no interest nor inclination to understand theology- especially relating to the theology of the eucharist. In that context, it is easy enough to poke fun at the apparent oddity of it all. In fact, barely anybody seems to be too bothered about the debate anymore- I think the Reformation was a hotbed of furious debate on the matter but last time I checked that was nearly 500 years ago. Back then it mattered as it was literally a life/death issue if you spoke blasphemy.

As for transubstantiation - the mystical changing of bread and wine into body and blood- I blame that fella St Thomas Aquinas and his love of obscure aristotelian metaphysics; guided by the 'holy spirit' and all that but as I say, hardly any Catholic seriously wonders too much about it these days. Life is complicated enough!

infogiver

endacl wrote: »

Well, the Catholics bake theirs?

..and Muslims all gather to throw stones once a year at a building to defend there's from the evil ! Surely that's worth a flying spaghetti type monster comment?
Even one? No?

Advbrd

Boggy Turf wrote: »

You cook your deity? Interesting.

It's better than that crap bread.

super_furry

infogiver wrote: »

..and Muslims all gather to throw stones once a year at a building to defend there's from the evil ! Surely that's worth a flying spaghetti type monster comment?
Even one? No?

Stone mad for the muslims so you are.

gramar

ReefBreak wrote: »

I disagree. He was describing what people actually believe. I mean, it's obviously daft - magically changing wafer into flesh? C'mon.

Look, I believe that an invisible and undetectable Flying Spaghetti Monster created the universe. But if anyone insults my views, I just laugh it off and cook some more pasta.

People do believe it in a symbolic way. Communion is a central part of the celebration of mass. Not even the most devout believer thinks it physically changes but it is an ordinary object that takes on an extraordinary significance. If some twat who seems to think he's the voice of a generation wants to have a pop at that then good luck to him.

Where I live, the places that make communion wafers sell off the part not used as a snack like below. It's just a bit of wafer. If you want believe it's something more then good luck to you.

infogiver

super_furry wrote: »

Stone mad for the muslims so you are.

I don't see why one religion is fair game for contempt and another one isn't.
Theyre all equally ridiculous, no?
Can you tell me why?

super_furry

infogiver wrote: »

I don't see why one religion is fair game for contempt and another one isn't.
Theyre all equally ridiculous, no?
Can you tell me why?

Because we live in a country that has, up until the last couple of decades, been under the jackboot of only one religion. The same religion still has a strangle hold on the schooling system here.

But feel free to have a go at the Moonies and Scientologists and whoever else you like.

Advbrd

infogiver wrote: »

I don't see why one religion is fair game for contempt and another one isn't.
Theyre all equally ridiculous, no?
Can you tell me why?

Ah, you see, that would be racist.
You might find yourself carded in this strange little world.

frozenfrozen

““I have made a complaint to the Broadcasting Authority,” the priest informed his parishioners at the Church of the Assumption

He has made a complaint to the broadcasting authority first, not RTE? It'll be thrown directly in the bin. You must complain to the broadcaster first not the BAI. I hope he actually did follow the proper channels of making a complaint, the BAI give no ****s in their responses to complaints.

I like how the irish eggs hamminer went and named comedian dave chambers 'Blindboy boat club' in the comedy duo The Rubberbandits.

So thanks for your complaint "career bullshitter" Kevin McNamara who performs as 'Father McNamara' in the comedy troupe the catholic church

Zubeneschamali

dinorebel wrote: »

He's just looking for a crumb of comfort.

Trying to get a rise out of the religious.

Penn

infogiver

super_furry wrote: »

Because we live in a country that has, up until the last couple of decades, been under the jackboot of only one religion. The same religion still has a strangle hold on the schooling system here.

But feel free to have a go at the Moonies and Scientologists and whoever else you like.

So you wont admit that you jump in there every time you get an opportunity to have a go because the Catholics never fight back and it takes no effort and you might get a few thanks from the other edgy dangerous posters who DARE to stick it to the man, AND you'd be a teensy little bit uneasy about dissing any other religion because you might get into a little bit of trouble?
Its blah blah blah jackboots all the way?

ReefBreak

infogiver wrote: »

I don't see why one religion is fair game for contempt and another one isn't.
Theyre all equally ridiculous, no?
Can you tell me why?

They ARE all fair game. They ARE all equally ridiculous. Nobody said they weren't. They all believe in the same silliness - that a magical man created the universe.

But this thread is about one specific thing about Catholicism that was mentioned on TV. And it was said on TV because that was the experience of the person on the show. He didn't talk about equally ridiculous Muslim beliefs because he didn't grow up as a Muslim.

endacl

infogiver wrote: »

I don't see why one religion is fair game for contempt and another one isn't.
Theyre all equally ridiculous, no?
Can you tell me why?

Because only one has had input into social policy here?

Galway_Old_Man

Can you imagine an equivalent thread like this about Muslims and saying similar stuff about Islam?

ScumLord wrote: »

Who cares what some deluded half dead priest thinks?

Leaving aside your despicable language, he's as entitled to make a complaint to the Broadcasting Authority as you or I. What's it to you if he does? Who forced you to read the story or comment on it?

infogiver

ReefBreak wrote: »

They ARE all fair game. They ARE all equally ridiculous. Nobody said they weren't. They all believe in the same silliness - that a magical man created the universe.

But this thread is about one specific thing about Catholicism that was mentioned on TV. And it was said on TV because that was the experience of the person on the show. He didn't talk about equally ridiculous Muslim beliefs because he didn't grow up as a Muslim.

Naahh. You never see any threads anywhere on boards mocking Islam. I'm going to start one right now and see how many comedians jump in

endacl

infogiver wrote: »

Naahh. You never see any threads anywhere on boards mocking Islam. I'm going to start one right now and see how many comedians jump in

I'll start the ball rolling. The Islamic magic bread will be sold from a chain of delis called Allahu Snackbar.

Happy now?

ScumLord

Galway_Old_Man wrote: »

Can you imagine an equivalent thread like this about Muslims and saying similar stuff about Islam?

Yes, when Muslims say crazy things we say the same things about them.

Leaving aside your despicable language, he's as entitled to make a complaint to the Broadcasting Authority as you or I. What's it to you if he does? Who forced you to read the story or comment on it?

He's of course entitled to say what he likes, but when he says it publicly then he should also expect a reaction. I think it's important to react to Catholic propaganda merchants spreading nonsense. Of all the things to react to like, a comedian calling the eucharist haunted shows that the church still hasn't gotten over the compulsion to try and control what we think and how we express ourselves.

infogiver

endacl wrote: »

Because only one has had input into social policy here?

No it's because it's easy, no one ever fights back, its lazy and it lets pathetic loners stuck to the keyboard waiting for their mammy to tell them their tea is ready think that they're sticking it to the man.
Sticking chocolate to their trousers is more like it.
Let's have a go at Islam instead. They have at least changed foreign travel for us forever.? Go on ! Really stick it to the man by having a go st the crowd in the mosque! All that kneeling and praying!!

Zubeneschamali

ReefBreak wrote: »

They ARE all fair game. They ARE all equally ridiculous. Nobody said they weren't. They all believe in the same silliness - that a magical man created the universe.

Buddhists say that the questions of whether the universe is finite or infinite, eternal or not are all unanswerable.

super_furry

infogiver wrote: »

So you wont admit that you jump in there every time you get an opportunity to have a go because the Catholics never fight back and it takes no effort and you might get a few thanks from the other edgy dangerous posters who DARE to stick it to the man, AND you'd be a teensy little bit uneasy about dissing any other religion because you might get into a little bit of trouble?
Its blah blah blah jackboots all the way?

He's going for the "you're bullying the Catholics angle" it's a bold strategy Cotton, let's see if it pays off.

ScumLord

infogiver wrote: »

No it's because it's easy, no one ever fights back, its lazy and it lets pathetic loners stuck to the keyboard waiting for their mammy to tell them their tea is ready think that they're sticking it to the man.
Sticking chocolate to their trousers is more like it.
Let's have a go at Islam instead. They have at least changed foreign travel for us forever.? Go on ! Really stick it to the man by having a go st the crowd in the mosque! All that kneeling and praying!!

I can see you have a low post count so probably don't know how things work around here. If you're looking for all the anti Muslim posts you'll find them in the politics threads about refugees.

We also have a Christian group that will defend their faith in threads like this. They even manage to stick to their Christian ethos of being nice no matter how much I wind them up. Real Christians that live the life are a minority in the world. Most just seem to use their faith as an excuse for intolerance.

NickNickleby

I'm a non practising Catholic, who questions some of the dogma.

I agree with the priest making the complaint because the original remark was designed to offend Catholics and belittle their beliefs. And RTE and the simpering Tubridy gave them a platform to do that. You will never hear guests on RTE make offensive remarks about other major religions, possibly because some of their adherents tend to respond more robustly than the priest in this case.

I would also support an Imam making a complaint in similar circumstances. Or a Rabbi or in fact any other religious leader.

super_furry

infogiver wrote: »

Naahh. You never see any threads anywhere on boards mocking Islam. I'm going to start one right now and see how many comedians jump in

See the problem is that you're so obsessed with having a go at Muslims that even in threads that aren't about Islam, you have to try and make it about that.

Old man complains about a Rubber Bandits joke about haunted bread? "YEAH BUT WHAT DEM MUSLAMICS?!?!!?"

frozenfrozen

600 posts since october 2016.. yeah this is not their first rereg rodeo