Self-Godwin of the day.

[johnny9fingers]

Apparently, Benny was just saying that the UK's equality bill inhibits the RC Church's freedom of belief.

Which puts Catholics in the same difficult situation that Nazi sympathisers have. Or folk who think that black folk are inherently inferior. Or some other bigoted folk....like the normal Anti-Catholicism of, for example, the Northern Irish Protestants.
Nah, I reckon we should go back to the old ways and all Catholics should be banned from practising their religion and forced to pay fines for non-attendance at Church of England services.

Or is that too far back?

Still, it's comforting to know that Catholics still can't be Prime Minister, or marry the heir to the throne, given the opinions of Catholicism's leader. (Well that's me out of the picture then, unless I officially convert to Protestantism.)

Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.....

Comments

[winterlion.livejournal.com]

somewhere buried behind fear, irrationality, guilt and bureaucracy that presents the Catholic public opinion, there's a beautiful religion full of magic and light.
I wouldn't know because outside of hints - I haven't seen it.

bigots are full of fear, irrationality and guilt.
They have my pity, but I'd rather they are never heard from in any matter....

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

If one were to read Teilhard (or even the later T S Eliot, who seemed to write as an Anglo-Catholic Mystic - the C of E, like the RC, is a broad church after all, and Catholic in its foundation, despite its later Protestantism) one would come to the conclusion that Catholicism was a mystical religion less worried about homosexuality or indeed any worldly sin, and more interested in redemption and merging with the godhead.

Then again, if you were to look at liberation theology one would think that Catholicism was a neo-Marxist social movement with religious underpinnings.

Like all other institutions, The Catholic Church has its good and bad points. The trick is to try to get the powers that be to recognise the bad bits, and junk them.

Sin is behovely....

[e4q.livejournal.com]

do you want to be prime minister or marry the heir to the throne?

saves you the bother!

So much better than I could put it

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl, but she hasn't got a lot to say,
Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl but she changes from day to day,
Wanna tell her that I love her a lot
But I've got to get a bellyfull of wine
Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl
Someday I'm gonna make her mine, oh yeah
Some day I'm gonna make her mine.

Anyway, I'm out of the running, being married.

Re: out of the running

[e4q.livejournal.com]

at least you are.

i, on the other hand, will never be queen. booes.