Nun stabs schoolboy in the hand with a needle to show him how Jesus suffered

PopePalpatine · 07-04-2015 10:27AM

So, when are we getting visited from the Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Drive-By Posts?

folamh · 07-04-2015 10:36AM

I kind of feel like years ago Christ's crucifixion was seen as this great exemplar of suffering for all, whereas now mass media reveals greater horrors on a regular basis, which undermines Christian reverence. These are my groggy thoughts this morn.

topper75 · 07-04-2015 12:21PM

Mass media give you some happy story at the end of the bulletin though - about some donkey being rescued etc.
Jesus though. Always with the suffering. And what do we get? "Eternal Life".

I'd rather be offered a coffee or strawberry flavoured sweet from the arse end of a tin of Roses. That would be something at least.

anncoates · 07-04-2015 12:27PM

She's really a student atheist trying to fcuk with AH's collective head and has a running bet with her mates about how many times she can get people to use the same thread to come up with the piercing observation that religion is an invention or a fairy tale.

07-04-2015 12:27PM

Macavity. wrote: »

I am actually the son of God and the next Messiah. Bow before me and you will live an eternity of joy and wonder in my kingdom.

Thanks for the offer but I already have plans of being dead and decomposing and it can't be put off.

Have a great time all the same.

Ush1 · 07-04-2015 12:29PM

anncoates wrote: »

She's really a student atheist trying to fcuk with AH's collective head and has a running bet with her mates about how many times she can get people to use the same thread to come up with the piercing observation that religion is an invention or a fairy tale.

Pun intended?

Nabber · 07-04-2015 12:34PM

So has it been confirmed that the nun stab the kid. The way the mirror reports it, it sounds like the needle went through his whole hand.

Poor Uncle Tom · 07-04-2015 05:25PM

Nabber wrote: »

..... the needle went through his whole hand.

Which is it?.....

ScumLord · 07-04-2015 05:30PM

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

They are people with their arms stuck firmly up the arse of the world, so there's no nonsense about them.

I think you'll find quite a bit of nonsense about them.

They show a picture of the kids hand and I can't actually see any damage. It looks more like he's arm is covered in temporary tattoos.

suicide_circus · 07-04-2015 05:33PM

From the little I know of the man, Jesus the Nazarene would be most displeased with many of the things done in his name.

gerrybbadd · 07-04-2015 05:33PM

Pfft... Child's play.

Why, when I was a boy, them Nun's, they'd bate ya black, then blue. They used have a length of stick, and they'd give it to ya across the backs of the legs until your shoes were filled with blood!

efb · 07-04-2015 05:35PM

gerrybbadd wrote: »

Pfft... Child's play.

Why, when I was a boy, them Nun's, they'd bate ya black, then blue. They used have a length of stick, and they'd give it to ya across the backs of the legs until your shoes were filled with blood!

White and gold in my day

BBJBIG · 07-04-2015 05:46PM

How would that Mickey Dodger like a kick in the Fanny ...

08-04-2015 10:50AM

ScumLord wrote: »

I think you'll find quite a bit of nonsense about them.

Who doesn't?

"No nonsense" meant that nuns don't sit around discussing mental reservations and Jesuitical obfuscation, unlike their male colleagues.

If the Priest is God's philosopher, surely the humble nun is God's plumber.

fatknacker · 08-04-2015 11:14AM

A few kicks in the gee would highlight how poor Mary suffered too.

ballinasloex · 08-04-2015 11:17AM

Wow... I rember when I was in primary school a nun use to teach about 5 off us for help with maths and reading we had say of the times tables quickstyle etc... If got it wrong we'd get a slap with a wooden ruler!

tuisginideach · 08-04-2015 11:22AM

Frank O'Connor portrayed similar event in his short story'My First Confession' pre1951.

topper75 · 08-04-2015 11:23AM

When Jesus was an apprentice carpenter he would have gotten the ruler off Joseph too if he messed up with a jagged cut on a piece of two by four.

So now you know what it was like for him. You have suffered like Jesus.

PopePalpatine · 08-04-2015 11:33AM

tuisginideach wrote: »

Frank O'Connor portrayed similar event in his short story'My First Confession' pre1951.

Now you've got me thinking of this short story I read ages ago, where a nun asked a child to stick either a finger, a thumb or a hand in a flame for five minutes to get an idea of what Hell was like. I'm 90% sure it wasn't a story in a textbook for English class.

tuisginideach · 08-04-2015 12:43PM

PopePalpatine wrote: »

Now you've got me thinking of this short story I read ages ago, where a nun asked a child to stick either a finger, a thumb or a hand in a flame for five minutes to get an idea of what Hell was like. I'm 90% sure it wasn't a story in a textbook for English class.

Yes, that sounds like O'Connor's except it wasn't a nun - it was a 'well to do old woman named Ryan who lived in a big house in Montenotte - she used to prepare the classes for First Communion.
The story was included in that fantastic collection of short stories called Exploring English 1 which was on the Inter Cert course - there were also poetry and prose collections.

fran17 · 08-04-2015 01:28PM

tuisginideach wrote: »

Yes, that sounds like O'Connor's except it wasn't a nun - it was a 'well to do old woman named Ryan who lived in a big house in Montenotte - she used to prepare the classes for First Communion.
The story was included in that fantastic collection of short stories called Exploring English 1 which was on the Inter Cert course - there were also poetry and prose collections.

Yes I'd be pretty confident in saying he knew it wasn't a nun.He never misses the chance for a bit of good old Catholic Church bashing.

conorhal · 08-04-2015 01:31PM

ballinasloex wrote: »

Wow... I rember when I was in primary school a nun use to teach about 5 off us for help with maths and reading we had say of the times tables quickstyle etc... If got it wrong we'd get a slap with a wooden ruler!

Grammar! *smack*

I'd say you still know you tables backwards though, unlike some of the numpties that have to break out a calculator on their phones to work out what five times 8 might be.....

efb · 08-04-2015 01:56PM

BBJBIG wrote: »

How would that Mickey Dodger like a kick in the Fanny ...

So much cobwebs and dust...

Nun stabs schoolboy in the hand with a needle to show him how Jesus suffered

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