The Hazards of Belief

ninja900 wrote: »

Benny has his spake in the Irish Times -
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2012/1218/1224327961229.html

Benny? Is John Waters on holiday this week, then?

More likely his fevered writings, combining so many controversial subjects and so many more idiotic claims and opinions at once, will result in a manuscript not unlike the Al Azif of legend, more commonly known as the Necronomicon, or "Book of the Dead". Waters, realising what he has done, will lose whatever sanity he had left and read aloud words that were never meant to pour from a human throat. And in the vast inky void between the stars, blasphemous entities too horrible to contemplate will hear him, and respond in kind.

Soon after, due in no small part to the sickening rituals of the Iona Institute and its unholy fellows, the Stars will be Right, and these gods of horror and madness will filter down through the infinity of space to our world, and a new age will begin, marking the extinction of humanity and the returning of the earth to its rightful rulers. They will not even have noticed mankind as they destroy it, as a man would not notice the ant he crushes underfoot. All our accomplishments, our hopes and fears and dreams and heroes, they will be snuffed out, as if they had never been.

Nothing like actually have to do some thankless chore to turn you off having a stance on something. They'll be pro-choice before 2013.

ninja900 wrote: »

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20835186
Down with this sort of thing, the last thing anywhere in Europe needs is politicians professing religion US-style.

he came with grace, truth and love," the prime minister says...

...and Apache attack helicopters.
Any Afghans listening must have got a good laugh out of that speech anyway.

That's what annoys me most about "christian morality" the complete hypocrisy of it. All the talk of peace and love, and then go out and do something completely different. Soldiers are trained and paid to shoot people. Why not just thank them for kicking ass out there, or else bring them home.

The leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales has used his Christmas Eve sermon to attack the government's plans for gay marriage.
The Archbishop of Westminster, Vincent Nichols, said the proposals were "undemocratic" and a "shambles".

Speaking to the congregation at Westminster Cathedral, Archbishop Nichols said the government had no mandate to push through any laws around same-sex marriage.
"There was no announcement in any party manifesto, no Green Paper, no statement in the Queen's Speech. And yet here we are on the verge of primary legislation.
"From a democratic point-of-view, it's a shambles.

"George Orwell would be proud of that manoeuvre, I think the process is shambolic," he said.
He claims during a "period of listening", those who responded were "7-1 against same-sex marriage".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20840531

And lets face it, he's in a good place to know about lack of democracy.....

Apparently 55% over there support it, according to this (page 6)
http://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_uploads/document/w0hvkihpjg/YG-Archive-Pol-Sunday-Times-results-14-161212.pdf

Postin on Christmas....this is what a lack of alcohol in yer life does to ye...terrible, really....

PopePalpatine wrote: »

That 1/8 would later be excommunicated. :rolleyes:

...after they explained how they got a seat on the church minibus with the other seven.

It appears the arch-bishop really was only counting the people he sent in the mini-bus....

More than three in five voters support David Cameron's wish to introduce gay marriage, according to a poll conducted for the Guardian. The strong backing for a change in the law comes after the archbishop of Westminster queried the democratic legitimacy of the coalition plans.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/dec/26/voters-back-gay-marriage-poll