Comments on: THE Catholic Church remains deeply mired in primitive superstition

By: Newspaniard

Newspaniard — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:41:39 +0000

Chrsbol. If that is a philosophical question, he’s out of his tree.

By: chrsbol

chrsbol — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:53:00 +0000

Where’s Bob?

By: Barry Duke

Barry Duke — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:18:59 +0000

Alas no, Newspaniard. While I take great delight in holding Holy Mother Church up to ridicule, it has a far greater talent than I possess to make ITSELF look completely ga-ga!

By: Newspaniard

Newspaniard — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:02:42 +0000

I must have woken up in a good mood this morning. I laughed out loud at Bob’s preaching on the previous item and now we have this item which had me nearly wetting my knickers. You’re winding us all up, Barry. Admit it, you concocted this gem yourself.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:29:51 +0000

Sounds like a good idea really. Pity they didn’t have the knowledge of modern psychiatry back at the start – maybe this whole nonsense would never have taken off.

Now if only tabloid papers would do the same thing with some of the stories they get.

By: Broga

Broga — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:11:30 +0000

Do the believe this stuff or is it all just a marvellous money making scam. A bit like the Pope who raised oodles of money by selling the right to the very wealthy to be forgiven for all sins – past and future. Martin Luther opined that this meant they could kill, rape, beat the crap out of anyone they chose and have a great time if that was their inclination – no penalty.

Bit like Brenda, Phil, Charlie, Harry and Co (secular version) they can live in Palaces, escape taxes, break any rules, shoot rare Hen Harriers, divorce wives, drool over mistresses tampaxes, thump photographers, call people paki or Sooty and the rest and there is no penalty. Brenda claims that only religion – her version, I assume – can save the world.

By: MotoWebbi

MotoWebbi — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:53:43 +0000

So, any heavenly messages I receive directly for god (or any of his minions), will be ignored if they contravene the church’s teachings???

By: valdemar

valdemar — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:42:02 +0000

Can I just add that all this stuff – pushing miracles etc – beats doing actual work for a living? The Catholic Church is a wonderful employment scheme for people who are self-important and basically feckless (as in Father Ted’s ‘Feck off!’). If religion were abolished all these people – strange men in frocks, by and large – would have to make things, or clean things, or sell things. Or something. As it is, they get to live quite comfortably (some of them in palaces, begorrah) off donations that are largely gleaned from the world’s poorest and most ignorant people. It’s a cracking skive, St Gromit!

Can I also take this opportunity to be a pedantic git and ask what kind of superstition is not primitive? ‘Advanced superstition’ – get your Harvard MBA while stocks last!

By: Ziggy

Ziggy — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:05:12 +0000

If the psychiatrists are at all professional, they would simply have the candidtates in question committed to their local friendly mental institution.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:54:08 +0000

“Either atheists or catholics”? they trust us but not the Protestants, CofE &c &c?

Also i found a vision of the holy smiley in my potato in a Lincoln resturant once. Ate it, though.