On a flight from Sri Lanka to the Philippines, the pope spoke with reporters including, among other topics, the assassination of the editor and members of staff of the unholy French magazine, Charlie Hebdo. This should come as no surprise, as everyone in the world is talking about this rag-mag as if there’s anything of value. The consensus around the world is unanimous - there is nothing of value to this tiny little publication, and no one cares about it or anyone who works for it. Except for the Muslims themselves, and apparently, the Pope.
Gee, I wonder why.
In response to the Pope Benny's awkward acceptance of condoms for gay Africans
only,
this 2010 image of Pope Benedict XVI holding a condom above his head
saying “This is my body” was issued
In response to the events, Pope Franny suggested there are limits to freedom of expression, explaining that “one cannot make fun of faith,” and that anyone who throws insults can expect violent retribution. I wonder if he’ll
send more children to do the dirty work of the church..
By way of example, he referred to Alberto Gasparri, who organizes papal trips and was standing by his side aboard the papal plane.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Pope Franny
If my good friend Dr. Gasparri says a curse word against my mother, he can expect a punch. It's normal. You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others.
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While I agree with the pope that the editor of this magazine asked for it, I disagree with him that “every religion has its dignity.” And that’s what got me thinking. Why would a man who believes his faith is the [url=fulness of the faith[/url] encourage censorship as a means of protection against it? I prayed on this matter and the Holy Ghost answered me faithfully. It is because the Pope knows if his religion were exposed to the world, people would know how absurd it is! Encouraging people to keep their mouths shut, encourages them to keep their minds shut. By suggesting that every religion has dignity, he attempts to dupe the simple Catholic into believing all rituals may look silly if you think about them, but their own rituals are no more bizarre than the other bizarre and flat out nutso religions that exist today. I guess if you set the standard low enough, people will accept anything.
Let’s look at a few of these religions the pope thinks are inherently dignified, shall we?
Scientology.
Perhaps the most well known of the world’s most bizarre religions, Scientology teaches that there are secret truths that can only be recovered after spending lots of hard earned money to help fund the shylock who runs this whole money making market. The secret is out, and the beliefs have been exposed for free. Apparently, this alien Xenu, ruler of the “Galactic Confederacy,” brought billions of people to Earth in Douglass DC-8 airliners some 75 million years ago. These people were stacked in volcanoes and then hydrogen bombs were detonated in the volcanoes. Thetans (lolwut?) then clustered together, stuck to the bodies of the living, and continue to do this today. For a mere vast majority of your monetary net worth, your local Scientologist will help you pretend you’re isolating and neutralizing your own personal thetan parasite and its ill effects.
Dignity or Dumb Dumb?
Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth.
“Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth” (TOPY) was founded in 1981 by members of Psychic TV, Coil, Current 93, and a number of other extraordinarily dorky school kids who couldn’t find girlfriends. Or normal friends. TOPY worships the devil through magic , thinking the human brain is inherently magical itself. It’s an excuse to have lots of sex without feeling guilty. TOPY is currently duping those losers in the underground Chaos magic scene and in the wider western occult tradition. They advertise such foolishness as “Left-hand path” and “Right-hand path magick,” and throw in pop-psychology, art, music, and whatever else comes to their cheetos fueled stoner brains at 4 in the morning.
What’s dignified about this?
Universe People.
Universe people or Cosmic people of light powers (Czech: Vesmírní lidé sil sv?tla) is a Czech religious movement centered around Ivo A. Benda. Not aware of the sound of his own internal voice, Benda actually believes that he’s talking with aliens telepathically. According to his insane ramblings, there is a fleet of spaceships, led by Ashtar Sheran, orbiting the Earth. They closely watch and help the good and are waiting to transport their followers into another dimension.
That’s not dignified, that’s delusional.
Prince Philip Movement.
The Prince Philip Movement is a “cargo cult” of the unsaved, uncivilized Yaohnanen tribe on the southern island of Tanna in Vanuatu. That’s in the South Pacific, somewhere just at the edge of the earth where apparently one can easily lose their minds. These savages believe that Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, the consort to Queen Elizabeth II, is a divine being, the pale-skinned son of a mountain spirit and brother of John Frum (another crazy belief that has started when a foolish story was believed to be true). According to ancient tales the son travelled over the seas to a distant land, married a powerful lady and would in time return. The villagers had observed the respect accorded to Queen Elizabeth II by colonial officials and came to the conclusion that her husband, Prince Philip, must be the son from their legends. Because that makes perfect sense.
Dignity or just plain stupid and childish?
Then we’ve got all kinds of ridiculous ideas are genuinely believed to be real, supernaturally revealed, and sources of Truth: Jediism, Raelism, Aetherius Society, Nuwaubianism, The Church of Ed Wood, Happy Science Religion, Heaven's Gate, Aum Shinrikyo, The Church of Maradona, copymeism, Temple of the True Inner Light, Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Rastafarianism, Jainism, Tenrikyo, and literally thousands more (for a complete list of false god,
see here).
If, as the pope suggests, every religion has its dignity, then why did Jesus tell us the undignified, horrifying character of the dirty Jew, as revealed through the Holy Bible? Is the pope calling Jesus a liar, or does he think that rejecting, crucifying, denying the LORD is dignified?
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together,
as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing. Look, your house is left to you desolate.
Matthew 23:37-38
All the people answered, “His blood is on us and on our children!”
Matthew 27:25
You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning,
not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies,
he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
John 8:44
“You stiff-necked people! Your hearts and ears are still uncircumcised. You are just like your ancestors: You always resist the Holy Spirit!
Was there ever a prophet your ancestors did not persecute? They even killed those who predicted the coming of the Righteous One.
And now you have betrayed and murdered him—
you who have received the law that was given through angels
but have not obeyed it.”
Acts 7:51-53
For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus:
for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:
Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have
persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved,
to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
1 Thessalonians 2:14-16
Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.
Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.
1 John 2:22-23
So I got to thinking, why would this priest want so much for people to stop ridiculing these ridiculous religious beliefs? Well, the only logical reason is because he doesn’t want people to know about HIS ridiculous religious beliefs. He wants his followers to walk around in blissful ignorance about what it is they actually believe. He wants them to be protected from any commentary that might disrupt their carefully crafted image of holiness and sanctity with their pagan rituals with Christian facelifts.
So let’s look at some of these more bizarre beliefs the Catholic church doesn’t want its members to think about, lest they get a punch in the nose from their local Knights of Columbus.
The Catholic church is obsessed with Jesus’ Penis
The Bible tells us that Jesus was circumcised eight days after his birth. But this became the source of a protracted debate among medieval scholars who couldn't figure out what became of the foreskin. Did it remain here on Earth? Was it reunited with Christ and ascended with him into Heaven? Or did it ascend into heaven separately, on its own?
The belief that the "holy prepuce" remained on Earth was the most popular position the Catholic church took. In fact, no less than 21 medieval churches and abbeys claimed to be in possession of the holy foreskin.
Austrian nun Agnes Blannbekin was so obsessed by the holy foreskin, that she imagined she "felt the Lord's foreskin on her tongue, thin as the membrane of an egg, and swallowed it with great sweetness 'about a hundred times'. Christ then revealed to her that his foreskin had been resurrected with him on Easter." Later that century, St. Catherine of Siena reportedly wore the foreskin of Jesus as a ring on her finger.
A ring of the recently eaten and vomited, now dried baby foreskin on her finger. That's not normal, people.
17th century theologians taught that the holy foreskin may have ascended into heaven at the same time as Jesus himself, and might have become the rings of Saturn.
The Catholic church’s circus show called “the Stigmata”
Padre Pio was the latest clown for this circus show, supposedly bleeding all over, pretending he was in great pain. The idea comes from the belief that Jesus’ special BFFs get to feel His pain, and not only feel it, but experience it for real. The wounds in His hands and feet and side are supposedly miraculously transferred to some poor shlepp who is sooper pious. Unfortunately for the actor, a tiny bit of attention reveals it all to be a show of smoke and mirrors.
And carbolic acid.
The church is obsessed with self-inflicted violence
This is an idea for those who want to feel like personal BFFs with Jesus. Taking the words of Paul out of context (and reality, and anything resembling normal),
Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church. Colossians 1:24. Catholics believe one can voluntarily take on the pain that Jesus did on the Cross. One can do this in one of two ways - passive mortification (you accept your painful lot in life with a smile on your face, how very convenient to teach the oppressed to embrace their own oppression); and active mortification (you produce pain to appease your own sense of guilt).
Pope John Paul ll did this in his closet with a Flagrum or leather belt, because that’s perfectly sane behavior. Nothing to see here, folks. Move along.
Belief in magical bones
This is a clear throwback to their pagan roots. The Catholic church actually thinks their magic can be kept in the bones and personal belongings (even foreskin!) of holy people. Each and every altar in each and every Catholic church has a
bone or tooth or lock of hair or splinter or bellybutton lint or bum hair dingleberry of some ancient, toothless, wandering fool so batshit crazy people thought he must be holy. Go ask your local priest if you don’t believe me. Just ask, “whose relic is contained in the altar of the church?” And they’ll tell you all about it with a smile on their face because if they look happy, that emotion will cheer you up, and you won’t think about how utterly bizarre and creepy that is to have magic bones in your town like some voodoo temple.
Transubstantiation
Check out how the Catholic really toes the line here on form versus the reality or spirit of the thing. Roman Catholic apologists must affirm that the form of a thing is also an expression, or accident, of its substance. Therefore, a tasteless cracker and gulp of wine is still the actual, legitimate body and blood of a pagan god/man.
With the desperate stretch to affirm the sacrament of the eucharist, theologians are faced with an unpalatable reality here.
They must continue to deny or ignore the avalanche of biological, physical, chemical, and culinary evidence against such a concept, and affirm that God just so happens to purposefully trick our senses into believing that we’re experiencing an event devoid of any supernatural element; an event that is what it looks like, but isn’t.
Note how this logic only works when you suspend all logic and accept whatever they tell to be true, as true.
So there you have it. I think the Pope is secretly embarrassed to be the CEO of an organization that is not only corrupt financially and sexually, but knows that its ridiculous beliefs are being ridiculed. And it wants to silence people from ridiculing them.
I won't.