Comments on: Watch out Ratzinger, we’re closing in on you!

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:31:23 +0000

I drink decaf coffee!!

By: Broga

Broga — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:54:15 +0000

Bob. You cannot be serious. An eternity of torment. Isn’t that just a little over the top? I think you have been drinking too much coffee. Research at the University of Durham says caffeine produces hallucinations.

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:47:56 +0000

Yes they do; in our household there is a great deal of joy and happiness. All five of my family know Christ as our personal Saviour and we are often laughing and in happiness of spirit.

By: TONY E

TONY E — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:27:34 +0000

Bob,

Ref ‘The Christians will have the last laugh’

No you won’t.

Laugh and Christian never go in the same sentence.

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:23:03 +0000

Repy to Callisto: you do have a point about the word “probably”; it is hardly a declaration of belief. How many evangelical Christians would say there “probably” was a Christ? However, you athiests need to remember that the Christians will have the last laugh. When we are in Heaven rejoicing you (unless you repent and get converted) will be in torments. You have been warned!!

By: Callisto

Callisto — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 05:07:29 +0000

Of course you can keep the elves, Newspaniard, just remember though, elves ‘probably’ don’t really exist!
but the temple does, so that’s ok, cos I saw it at the bottom of your garden with the fairies…
oh BTW, I live in Australia and you cannot say even ‘probably’ no God here…there’s probably something rotten in the woodshed (if it’s not in a bushfire that is…):(

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:18:13 +0000

Avanti!

I need to name something after Ariane Sherine in my Agent Smoke (set in “the gay homeland”, but it’s highly atheist too) comic. Ariane Sherine Airport, perhaps? (The airports of the 2060′s will be all mirror-smooth lakes for Zeppelins to land on, too. They hover over the lake and pump water up into themselves to become heavier gradually until they settle onto the water)

By: Newspaniard

Newspaniard — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:38:26 +0000

Callisto: Whaddya mean “…no Thor the Thunder god, or probably no Zeus or Chronos…”? Does that mean I built this HUGE temple in my back garden for NOBODY? Hang on, hang on, you didn’t mention Father Christmas, so I can keep the elves, right?

By: Tim Danaher

Tim Danaher — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:36:54 +0000

Callisto –

Remember that the ‘probably’ had to be inserted to comply with some ASA law about ‘intolerant speech’ or some such bullshit.

Or maybe it was for the same reason that Carlsberg always had to say “‘probably’ the best lager in the world…”

They wanted the original wording to be stronger. I do like the Italian version, though. Very to the point.

By: The Val

The Val — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:08:30 +0000

Man, that is so frickin cool. And how hypocritical is, “Head-on opposition always demonstrates intolerance.” That’s one of the funniest thing I’ve ever heard come out of a catholic. Sums up the entire history of that church, doesn’t it.