Superstitious? Us?
Religion in all its many forms - - Posted on April, 19 at 1:05 pm by Ken L
You know how much we love to laugh at the commies for keeping old heroes like Lenin and Mao on permanent display? Talk about your backward medieaval peasants.
We in the good old tradition of the European Enlightenment are sooooo much more sophisticated. That’s why the Roman Catholics, when they descend upon Sydney in a few months, are going to bring an 83 year old corpse with them.
Despite the 83 years since his death, his body is reported to be in surprisingly good condition. Interviewed by phone, the cathedral parish priest, Father Gardiglio, said the body was intact.
Apparently this poor guy was buried back in 1925 but years later they decided to dig him up again as part of ‘the procedure that led to his recognition as Blessed, the phase before recognition of sainthood.’ Maybe they had to check that he wasn’t circumcised or carrying a 666 tattoo under his hair or something. Fortunately, according to a relative:
“It was like meeting him. His body was intact, his skin was fresh.”
You know the same thing happens in vampire movies and it always ends badly. I hope the coffin is double locked.
And what is the purpose of carting this cadaver halfway around the world?
For pilgrims, being in his presence will be a matter of faith.
Of course!!!! When they put it that way, it’s so obvious.
This biggest-event-since-the-Olympics just makes me silent with awe at the sophistication of our society and how superior we are to those stone age Islamopricks.
I hope they’ll be selling indulgences. I’d love me a piece of the One True Cross, signed personally by the Vatican cricket team and a bargain at $10,000 + p&p. Ooooo look, I bet that stain is Jesus’ blood!!!!
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April 19th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
Yes. He always wanted to travel.
Look upon this as a sort of Catholic Starlight Foundation thing for those of the One True Faith: Your wishes get granted after you’re dead.
Better late than never, I say.
April 19th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
“The leaders of the Catholic Church endorsed The Exorcist; virtually promoted it as much as they could. The Cardinals of New York and Los Angeles and Chicago and the other big cities, all over the world, they endorsed it because it represents a literal depiction of the Roman ritual of exorcism which still exists in the Catholic faith. It’s still there. The power of faith to drive out demons. And this film showed that and they embraced it.”
(William Friedkin, director of “The Exorcist”)
So what happened to all those “eager beavers” when they met GW & Cheney?…a bit stale on performing the old “stick it to the demon” rituals these days or what?
April 19th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
I think I’ve figured it out. They’re still smarting from all the paedophile scandals so they’re proactively trying to identify any latent necrophiliacs in the priesthood :-).
April 19th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
I thought this was a joke when I read about it some time ago,it still is,isn’t it?.
April 19th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
Trip down memory lane:
By Philip Pullella
Wed Dec 19, 2007
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican on Wednesday condemned the film “The Golden Compass,” which some have called anti-Christian, saying it promotes a cold and hopeless world without God.
The Vatican newspaper said “honest” viewers would find it “devoid of any particular emotion apart from a great chill.”
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yea, better to drag around a stiff & feed it to the goggling eyes of kiddies…that’ll kill the chill after watching those Godless flicks.
April 19th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
I admire my father more everyday as a Catholic when I read stuff like that presented here.Dad, with a problem of paranoia,borne essentially from losing a football match against the city-based South Melbourne as a country rep. as a potential goal kicker accepted money before the game not to kick straight.The country team would of clearly won,accept for his kicking.And it was money for the family in the Depression as the depression in Australia continued beyond the official date of ending,for low income Australians.He couldnt answer the front door,he thought the coppers would catch up with him.The military barracks for training the officers was just down the road from the South Melbourne Football ground,and the Rail workshop not far in a different direction,where he worked for sometime,starting early in the morning pushing a bike.Why my Father’s Catholicism appeals to me now, he forced himself at Christmas time,and occasionally Easter to go to mass,overcoming the torment of no confession and a obvious nervous condition.As a railway fettler in Victoria,on the lowest rung of pay,and attempting to provide for six kids from the late 1940s to late sixties,seventies,I am proud of his attempt at being humble to think God,whatever that really means was still important enough to try get over all the nervousness.The present Pope is a moron,and I dare say all this confidence of the Catholic Church,would want to make him say something other than bloody!Accept,I suppose I have to say in fairness,he may of broken free of nervousness if the Papal expresses of this one and the last one had of come earlier in his life,maybe without the Ratlines.
April 20th, 2008 at 1:22 am
Goodness me, Ken!
You know you’re going to burn in hell for that, don’t you?
“He leads in a way that the good Lord tells him is best for our country” ~General Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (October 2006 -talking about Donald Rumsfeld)
April 20th, 2008 at 2:51 am
Ken, you’re out of control, mate.
April 20th, 2008 at 3:28 am
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
(Bertrand Russell)
At 3 AM or such, I look upon her sweet face snug against the pillow, my heart glows w/ warmth it seems…hormones flood my body…my body’s reaction would be defined simply by some as “the way of love”…and it is an acceptance of the need for this thing called “love” that leads me to think hard on being without it…& then in a fit of panic i imagine the many ways she might leave this Earth before me…and it is this “sturm” of fear & superstition…linked to the knowledge of our impending doom, the bane of each mortal…accompanied by a sense of powerlessness…that drags me to momentary frustration, anger and then “irrational” action.
I move my fingers about spasmodically, then my right hand in a rapid, circular motion…as tho i were the powerful, “interventionist being” of so many other’s belief systems…& think a positive outcome for each “dreadful” possibility.
Eventually the panic subsides. The nerves are soothed.
I have in the heat of the night succumbed to the temptation…to compulsion…to the fear of being alone…again…i have knelt in the midst of the tempest and demonstrated to myself that the fear of loss can make anyone temporarily lose touch w/ their rational mind.
Perhaps it is wiser not to contemplate on such fears…not to entertain them lest they seduce you to take part in imaginary things. Perhaps wisdom prefers i dump my independent strategy & struggle w/ insomnia & high blood pressure instead…
or perhaps visit some glass house or stone temple, where i may be told of my other failings…& why i should REALLY be afraid…& learn from a pontificator how to quell my fears & guilt by accepting a myth and doing charitable things for others…& spilling my guts to a stranger in robes &/or collar…
does not seem far removed from my life…
but the place of learning is the library…or the university…or the internet.
the myths spark my curiosity…the need to know…help motivate the SEARCH…RESEARCH.
the charitable things are done usually without prompting…unless a reminder is received in the mail/email…and guilt plays less a role than “outrage”.
and the “spilling of the guts” is to YOU.
“Whatever gets you through the night”.
(Lennon, J.)
April 20th, 2008 at 8:37 am
An 81-year-old living corpse dragging around an 83-year-old corpse.
It’s always ancient witchdoctors who lead this archaic disgrace of a church through views and practices centuries behind the times. Old unmarrried codgers who would possess absolutely zilch experience of sex, marriage and families rule supreme with their lightning bolt encyclicals and endless Papal Bull on these very subjects, while its child molesting INDUSTRY costs them about half a billion every year in the US alone in whispered out-of-court settlements.
Not to mention impoverishing entire continents like South America and Africa as its absurd voodoo and prehistoric rantings extract every last peso from those who can least afford it,the Dark Ages Catholic church should be abolished throughout the world as history’s most disgusting embarrassment, not promoted like a modern-day rock concert.
If in doubt about any of this, ask any poor Catholic family with 10-12 kids, some of whom were probably buggered anally in the name of the Lord, just what’s so great about life under this dreadful institution of horrors.
It leaves me breathless that swarms of idiots around the world, even here in Australia, will turn out to bless and worship an evil institution responsible for the poverty, deaths and harm to so many hundreds of millions over so many centuries, and all in the name of a fabricated virgin who wasn’t.
April 20th, 2008 at 9:09 am
That’s the most ridiculous and the most disgusting thing I’ve read all year.
April 20th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”
Voltaire
It can be religion, politics, or plain old greed… all enabled, these days, by our “Marvelous” mass media.
ANTHRAX! Have faith citizens! Your courageous leaders will protect you. (Plastic Sheeting and Duct Tape optional). Gott Mit Uns.
April 20th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Great joke. Or is it? One can never be sure when you’re dealing with this mob.
I note that several (many) dioceses in the US are now bankrupt. But I suppose they will still be able to hang on to the churches, lands, schools etc.
If the church was serious, Head Office in the Vatican would ‘cough up’.
April 20th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
Abba, the good ‘fathers’ have certainly made plenty of young boys ‘cough up’.And a spell off their push bikes.
Having a narrow escape from one of these ‘fathers’or ‘brothers’ at a well known College,always named after a Saint) in Sydney as a young boy, I’m glad that Ken put this up, what a mob of pricks they are,without the history or the power, this mob would be a outlawed. My dogs have more morals than the Catholic administration,and that’s all they are, whilst dragging around bodies and filling their coffers at the expense of the fear they induce in the vulnerable.A pox on the bloody lot of them.
April 20th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
I was just humming “whatever gets you through the night”…hmmm…going by the latest comments on this blog from some insightful characters it doesn’t look like the Catholic Church helped as many kids sleep as peacefully “through the night” as one would’ve hoped for…and simultaneously, has helped the poor…to keep on breeding themselves into poverty…in fact, it’s starting to sound to me like a tax-exempt, patriarchal business on Viagra minus the condom:
Here’s Bill Maher on the topic in July 07:
“In this great and diverse country, one is always proud to see their own city on the front page of the national newspapers, so you can imagine my pride yesterday when Los Angeles turned out to be the place where the Catholic Church has had to pay the largest fine ever for diddling kids, $660 million. (Huffington Post)
And now the Catholic church is coming to town (Sydney)…haha…all cleaned up w/ a Papal apology (?)…gather ’round all ye children…the new boss ain’t the same as the old boss…
Still, can one really blame an organisation for the sins of some of its most devout followers?
Now which religion are this latest batch of terrorists from?
April 21st, 2008 at 10:32 am
In which case they could presumably have left in the ground and planted a nice tree over him?
It’s something of an artform, you know, the sentence which appears to have meaning and in fact has none. Re-spect!
April 21st, 2008 at 11:37 am
As a former public servant, my sympathies go out to the unfortunate AQIS officer who lost the great game of pass the parcel and ended up having to deal with this particular import.
April 21st, 2008 at 12:05 pm
What, there’s only one old A-teamer they can dig up and bring here? I hope at least they’ll exhume the body of Mary McKillop as our contribution to the show. I wonder if they’d like to have Phar Lap there, we don’t even have to dig him up. I think every country that’s sending delegates (?) should have to contribute a worthy corpse.
April 21st, 2008 at 12:27 pm
BigRuss that’s an inspired idea. If you weren’t at the summit you should have been.
I bet that somewhere there’s a saintly corpse where worms and decay have revealed the face of our saviour on a breast or a buttock or something, just like sometimes happens on toast. But I guess it’s already been sold on eBay.
April 21st, 2008 at 12:36 pm
Thank you Ken. If you do get hold of that piece of The One True Cross, by the way, put it in your linen cupboard. I believe it protects against moths, silverfish and all the rest.