Parish Priest.

Your Superior · 23-01-2015 02:09PM

Mam and Mammy just sound vile to me. Nothing creeps me out more than adults who use "Daddy" though...

Grayson · 23-01-2015 02:17PM

DeadHand wrote: »

As you well know, I said nothing about bowing and scraping.

I believe any religion should exert no influence over anyone but it's adherents and that religion has no place in the law or governance of a state.

What I do find distasteful are the lazy, unnecessary, unthinking attacks we see here and elsewhere on the Church. Going out of your way to brand all priests pedophiles on a perfectly innocuous thread about how to address a parish priest, for example.

Don't get me wrong, the Church richly deserved most of the flak it's taken in recent years. The castration it's undergone in terms of power and influence in recent decades has been thoroughly just and needed.

Still, I find the unoriginal, puerile and personalised slating of it by keyboard warriors who falsely believe it makes them look brave and progressive to be tiresome. Especially since many of the same gallants are subscribers to the current herd mentality and are now slavish devotees to the modern dogmas of political correctness, equality and anti-religious sentiment (against all religions but Islam, which they defend vigorously and submit to readily. Funny that. The phrase "easy targets" springs to mind).

I theorise the same bovine thinkers would have made for ardent Catholics 30-40 years ago.

A herd mind is a herd mind, all that changes is the herd's direction.

there is no-one who's against all religions except Islam (well, except for hard core Muslims of course)
What politically correct people are against is the targeting of Islam. there's loads of Christians who will complain about sharia and islamization and will ignore everything vile in Leviticus. They'll condemn the few Muslim fanatics who kill people but ignore Christians, Buddhists etc who do the same. There's hundreds of thousands of people in far right groups in the US who claim to be representing white Christians (the KKK for example).

I'll condemn islam as much as I'll condemn other religious hate groups.

You are right about the catholic church. I grew up in a very catholic time. I went to a very catholic school where my teachers were priests. I've known many amazing priests who were great people. The catholic church as an organisation though is pretty messed up. The cover up of pedophilia and stuff like the Magdeline laundries was horrific.

Francis seems a bit better though and I don't think he'd stand for that crap. Even though I'm an atheist and disagree with certain stuff like abortion and gay marriage I do think he's the best thing to happen to the church in years.

Mesrine65 · 23-01-2015 02:18PM

Imam Sheik Yer Booty

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