Tom Smith ([info]filkertom) wrote,
@ 2007-07-10 17:51:00
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Yet Another Reason
Emperor Popetine declares non-Catholic churches to be either defective or not true churches.

Listen, guy, if you're really determined to spend your dotage locked away in a golden palace and berating everyone else for not having as good an imaginary friend as you, go wild. Just quit trying to bludgeon everybody into changing their own beliefs and laws based on that, mmkay?


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[info]madrona
2007-07-10 10:08 pm UTC (link)
As a Christian, I frequently wonder if Jesus ever headdesks.

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[info]aulayan
2007-07-10 10:12 pm UTC (link)
One of the best Daily Show's "This Week in God" moments was when they were telling a Jerry Falwell related story, finished it, and said "In related news, God quits."

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[info]filkertom
2007-07-10 10:15 pm UTC (link)
I think He'd have to. With the occasional OMGWTFBBQ.

Oh, man. My brain just did the nasty. Has anybody else come up with "lolchrist"?

"Im in ur heart, savin ur soul"
"I has a savior"
"Oh hai I changed ur water to wine k thx bai"
"Thrice Betrayed Jesus Is Not Amused"

If there's a hell, I've got a suite.

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[info]per_solo
2007-07-10 10:25 pm UTC (link)
If you've got a suite, I've got a room down the hall..I read this and said "I wonder how I can make that happen, now that I'm tired of most of the other *lolyerfandom* things. :-P

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[info]ladystarblade
2007-07-11 12:56 am UTC (link)
And I'm on the other end of the floor...I'm the girl with the "Pimpin' For Jesus" icon and the one who once blurted out something about Jesus and halos that cannot be repeated in public.

*polishes own halo*

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[info]lizreay
2007-07-11 04:57 pm UTC (link)
This isn't public! You're amongst friends! C'mon.... ;)

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[info]stevemb
2007-07-10 10:41 pm UTC (link)
Now I'm picturing a classic-art depiction of the Creation with the caption "I CAN HAS LIGHT!"

Fortunately, my God has a sense of humor. If not, we're all doomed in any case....

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[info]tigertoy
2007-07-11 01:21 am UTC (link)
If there's a god responsible for the human condition, he clearly has a sense of humor. But not a pleasant one.

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[info]eleri
2007-07-11 05:51 am UTC (link)
thank god it's the con suite, and there's room and snax for all of us.

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[info]omimouse
2007-07-11 02:38 pm UTC (link)
But doesn't that make it really Heaven?

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[info]darthparadox
2007-07-10 10:16 pm UTC (link)
No surprise here. That's not actually a change in the church's position. Apparently he just felt the need to reemphasize the point.

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[info]smallship1
2007-07-10 11:19 pm UTC (link)
Exactly. Until all the churches/religions change their doctrines and modes of worship to match, all the well-meaning dialogues in the world won't make a scrap of difference. And since they had what seemed to them good reasons for splitting off in the first place, they aren't going to change, and pretending that "it's all the same really" is either naïve or hypocritical.

But...this is the age of the great multicultural melting pot, so it's been considered expedient to go along with all the ecumenical flim-flam and paper over the cracks. Young Benny here seems not too keen on expediency. Is any of this really news?

As with most people-related problems, there isn't a right answer. The Wellsian dream of scrapping all the "fairytales" and marching clear-eyed into a bright new future based on reason isn't going to happen, and if it did I think it would be boring as hell. The best we can hope for is that people come to prefer religions that don't transgress what we think of as human rights. Of course, in many people's views they're no fun (for given values of "fun" which I do not share) but you can't have everything.

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In the news
[info]tesral
2007-07-10 11:07 pm UTC (link)
Well they will just have to wait in line for my attention with all the other "we are the only true way to worship God and you all suck if you don't follow our way" so called One True Religions.

I've plenty of time for God, but no time for them.

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[info]unclelumpy
2007-07-10 11:52 pm UTC (link)
Isn't that kinda his job?

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[info]dlobok
2007-07-11 12:09 am UTC (link)
"Christ 'established here on earth' only one church," said the document released as the pope vacations at a villa in Lorenzago di Cadore, in Italy's Dolomite mountains.


"But since we slaughtered the Gnostics, we inherited their God powers," the pope continued. "C'mon. You've all seen Highlander."

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[info]ladystarblade
2007-07-11 12:52 am UTC (link)
"C'mon. You've all seen Highlander."

Ow. I just laughed Diet Mountain Dew through my nose. That hurt. But then, that's the funniest thing I've read all day. :-)

Hmmm...now I'm visualizing Benedict swinging that staff of his while yelling "There can be only ONE!"

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[info]wildcard9
2007-07-11 03:22 am UTC (link)
Okay, this puts a whole new spin on the hebrew name for God, which roughly translates to The One.

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[info]annearchy
2007-07-11 01:41 am UTC (link)
Yeah I knew B16 would say something like this. It's this sort of crap that drove me out of the Catholic Church and turned me into a Unitarian :D

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[info]poltr1
2007-07-11 03:04 am UTC (link)
Y'know, this is the type of stuff that makes me want to place the Pope in a cage with any evangelical who says "Catholics are't true Christians because Catholics worship saints and that's idolatry" and let 'em duke it out.

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[info]nagasvoice
2007-07-11 06:14 am UTC (link)
Yeah, but the reason we'd both end up in that con suite in hell (along with the rest of the bunch round here!) is that we'd be *betting* on the results.
Popentine is going *down*, you know the evangelicals are always in shape from running like mad for those protest marches.

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[info]trdsf
2007-07-11 06:22 am UTC (link)
If every religion didn't have a little "we're right and everyone else is wrong" in it, there wouldn't be so many religions. Heck, never mind being the "one true Christian" church, shouldn't the debate over who's "right" be with Jews, Hindus, Muslims, Atheists, Buddhists, etc?

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[info]shannachie
2007-07-11 09:17 am UTC (link)
That man's got a brand CI policy worse than CocaCola.

He was a nitwit when he was bishop in Munich (I lived there at the time) and his years of being the boss of the former inquisition has done nothing to enhance his brain. I have disliked the guy for so long that I could celebrate anniversaries.

Bah.

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[info]baphnedia
2007-07-11 10:16 am UTC (link)
Oh joy. This is made of pure awesome. Now if only omg.wtf.bbq.paradice.net were only working (because it depicts what I think of the actions of Popetine).

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Forget the Protestant protests --
[info]capplor
2007-07-11 03:21 pm UTC (link)
Two words -- Eastern Orthodox!

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[info]lizreay
2007-07-11 04:54 pm UTC (link)
*dies laughing* Emperor Popetine?!?!? Awesome. I'm totally stealing that.

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[info]louisadkins
2007-07-11 05:52 pm UTC (link)
Tempted would I be to found a church and call it OneTrueWay. My followers could declare themselves the OneTrueWayIsts, and could follow the OneTrueWay path. My main focus would be that all religions are valid, though, heh. I know, I know, would never work...

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[info]min0taur
2007-07-11 07:29 pm UTC (link)
An old man, an old hierarchy, the same old story: Periodically the troops must be told that they're the preferred clientele, they've got the right answer, and they have Something To Do for the brief time they get to run around on the planet: make more people Just Like Them, by whatever means.

So much for the Ecumenical Movement, Vatican II, interfaith fellowship, and other forms of religious awareness that refuse to indulge in spiritual imperialism. (For the *next* hundred years, anyway.) Sad. Amongst all the sects, there are always too many who would rather live in an authoritarian fairytale than in a do-it-yourself humane reality. Not much to be done for them that they'd be likely to accept. If we're very lucky, maybe we can limit the scope (and collateral damage) of their activities without becoming their dancing partners at the Armageddon Hop.

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[info]trdsf
2007-07-12 02:33 am UTC (link)
Back in the 70s, when I was still a practicing and devout Roman Catholic, our parish priest was a young man, full of ecumenical fire and Vatican II "window opening". The church was renovated, the congregation was drawn into the service (I was a reader after I was an altar boy), we had joint services with the other local churches (the one with the Baptists was interesting ... old Slovak Catholics were not ready for Rev Tisdale's preaching style ;)). Eventually, Fr. Willman moved up to head the diocesan ecumenical council... and, sadly, essentially vanished as John Paul II undid John XXIII and Paul VI's liberalizations. I quite miss the heady days of liberation theology, and often wonder if John Paul I had lived, if I might yet be Catholic today.

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