magicbastarder wrote: » anyway, watch this instead. it'll have the same effect.
Hotblack Desiato wrote: » Can somebody take one for the team and read this to the end?
Timberrrrrrrr wrote: » I'll try later with a glass or 3 of red
nozzferrahhtoo wrote: » In McDonalds the fries taste like they are made from pretty much the same cardboard as catholic crackers. Especially if you foolishly eat them after they have gone cold.
iceman700 wrote: » Was the original question the difference between religion and spirituality?
smacl wrote: » Fries are the work of the devil. That'll be five euros, tweny cents and ten hail Marys please.
smacl wrote: » a heavy focus on getting people back to church with drive-through church services
smacl wrote: » Fries are the work of the devil.
Hotblack Desiato wrote: » Get the drive-thru McDonald's to hold confessions over the intercom, and dispense communion at the hatch
Bannasidhe wrote: » d'ja want fries with that?
nozzferrahhtoo wrote: » Maybe Mr. MacCARTHY has some financial interests still vested in the Cathedral which has him wanting to get the income stream back up and running? If anything rather than being allowed open sooner, these entirely superfluous and optional pursuits should be opening later. Over here my kids are slowly being integrated back into school which is great. Their extra curriculars like their football and dance and martial arts and music clubs have to wait a good deal longer however. And I have not heard anyone bitching about that yet personally, only a few people in the news like the Muslims I mentions earlier. Most people I meet seem to understand the difference between necessary and elective pursuits and which ones should get priority.
Religion is not a hobby Sir, – It is good that Breda O’Brien (Opinion & Analysis, May 9th) has drawn attention to a recent interview of Sean O’Rourke with Archbishop Eamon Martin in which the archbishop said that the church would not be lobbying to speed up a return to communal worship, and that this view was questioned by Sean O’Rourke. She is correct in saying that many journalists see the church as either the enemy of all progress or a remnant of the past. Why should the reopening of churches have to wait until the end of July in common with hairdressing and cattle marts? The Government seems to think that religion is a hobby, not something central to the lives of a great many people. – Yours, etc, ROBERT MacCARTHY, (Formerly Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral) ublin 8.
Sir, – Robert MacCarthy (Letters, May 12th) questions the advice that churches should wait until the end of July to reopen along with hairdressers and cattle marts. The coronavirus particle sees no difference between these locations. Churches have been at the centre of several outbreaks across the world and must follow epidemiological advice like all other organisations. Each new infection has ramifications beyond the individual. – Yours, etc, Dr BRENDAN McDONNELL, Dublin 8.
Hector Savage wrote: » RCC is pretty much dead in Ireland
robindch wrote: » While the FDA has warned people off drinking bleach since at least 2019, people in the US do seem to have been calling poison control centers in increased numbers since the start of March.
A “healing church” that promoted a solution containing industrial bleach as a cure for coronavirus has been fined more than $150,000 for multiple allegedly unlawful advertising offences. On Wednesday Australia’s drugs regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), said the Australian chapter of the Genesis II Church of Health and Healing had been fined for selling and promoting a solution containing sodium chlorite, a chemical used as a textile bleaching agent and disinfectant. The Australian website for the church, MMS Australia, falsely claimed the solution could treat, cure, prevent and alleviate diseases including Covid-19, HIV and cancer, the TGA said. It has been revealed that Genesis II church US leader, Mark Grenon, wrote to Donald Trump just days before the US president claimed disinfectant could be a coronavirus cure. The letter stated that chlorine dioxide - a powerful bleach used in industrial processes such as textile manufacturing that can have fatal side-effects when drunk - is “a wonderful detox that can kill 99 per cent of the pathogens in the body”. He added that it “can rid the body of Covid-19”. An Australian representative of the church’s MMS Australia Foundation previously told Guardian Australia: “Do you go into the Catholic church and question them about the wine or the bread that they serve in the Eucharist? No, so why doesn’t the world leave us alone? These are our sacraments and we should be free to use it and teach other people to use it.” Dr Ken Harvey, an associate professor of public health from Monash University, said he welcomed the fine but it was not a strong enough deterrent given the product had been causing issues for years. “Yes the TGA issued infringement notices but this is just essentially an invitation to pay the fine or go to court and argue their case,” Harvey said. “In the meantime the MMS website is still up selling the products, with a few extras disclaimers, and they are now trying to label it as some kind of religious sacrament. “What the TGA needs to do is order the website be taken down and a safety and warning notice and apology put in its place. While an infringement notice is a good step, it hasn’t done anything to stop the website, which is still promoting and selling it.”
robindch wrote: » A propos of anti-immigrant sentiment, was a link to that recent petition concerning Ms O'Doherty + Mr Waters posted? 90,000 signatures and counting at the time of posting now.https://www.change.org/p/irish-court-services-gemma-o-doherty-and-or-john-waters-do-not-speak-for-us
smacl wrote: » Strong anti-Islamic sentiment fuels this and is deservedly given a hard time as a result.
Michelle Ryan wrote: We as Irish citizens (AKA ‘the people of Ireland’) want the Irish Court services and frontline workers to know that Gemma O’Doherty and/or John Waters do not speak for us.
Bannasidhe wrote: » Disingenuous is being all outraged by a false interpretation of a change in law being discussed by the government in one legal jurisdiction and using the actions of an attention seeking numpty in another legal jurisdiction to bolster your non argument. The Bolton Bobber would not be affected in anyway by a law in Scotland. However, those who are the victims in Scotland of the same Christian Sectarian violence that has also affected Northern Ireland will be affected - hopefully in a positive way. Attention seeking is attention seeking. I am as unaware of the Irish ones as I was of the Bolton Bobber - and I remain unaware as you have not provided any link. So I can safely say I hailed them not at all. Would you prefer I spelled it 'effnick'? I could also explain why it had inverted commas. But sure - you try and play the race card against me while you continue frothing about the threat of Islam....
Hector Savage wrote: » Disingenuous - you know what I mean. Like the attention seeking numpties that went into a RCC church in Ireland and performed in front of statues ? - but of course they were progressive heroes ... ethnic ? why are you bringing race into this ? sounds racist to be honest ... and eh no, the police would not be having a word - and you well know it ...
Hector Savage wrote: » That's a laugh, before these last 2 days it's been months since I posted in here, you have posters who literally are in here EVERY DAY slagging off the RCC (fine - but why don't you say they are fixated on Christianity) ??
And the reason I 'fixate' on Islam is because it is the greatest threat religion wise to modern society, RCC is pretty much dead in Ireland, Christianity is dying out, Islam however is growing and growing and seems to be getting more fundamental.
