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12/22/2008 19:28 #47143
Best Poster..ever.
From 826 Valencia (Children's Literacy Organization)
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12/22/2008 10:28 #47137
SnowMyGodIt took me almost 2 hours to get from my house to the end of the block. I should've worked from home.
12/22/2008 08:04 #47136
Not Sick.I am finally, gloriously, not sick. I was too afraid to say so yesterday -- but today, today I can confirm it! 3 weeks of misery is thankfully over.
No more flus or colds or aches or pains.
It feels nice :)
No more flus or colds or aches or pains.
It feels nice :)
12/21/2008 15:01 #47129
Terrible MistakeCategory: religion
Reader's note: The 'you' in this writing is directed at the Catholic Church, not the reader. If you really like the Catholic Church you might not want to read on, for what I write below is 100% anti-Catholic Church, although not necessarily anti-Catholic person.
I was on Wikipedia, and somehow ended up reading about Catholic Apologetics and the infallibility of the Pope and inerrancy of the Bible.
Not a topic to soothe my mind with, and a bad way to mentally prepare for staying with my ultra-Catholic in-laws next week.
But seriously, Catholic Church, if you advocate things which involve violating the Law of Conservation of Mass and then claim you are infallible, and then use circular reasoning to justify the whole sorry mess, I'm going to call you out as wrong and a vicious liar.
The scope of observations that we've made about the universe covers the scale from individual subatomic particles to giant galactic superclusters and background radiation from the Big Bang. That's solid, dependable, re-verifiable knowledge. If you had to start over from scratch you'd find the exact same thing.
You, the Catholic Church, think that heaven and hell depend on randomly believing preposterous things with no evidence and no usefulness, and then claim you're more accurate at discerning truths then the scientific process which can divine billions of years worth of history. Essentially you are mentally ill as an organization. Science is powerful because it knows it's full of errors and corrects for them over time. 20 centuries of Popes helming your rock are jackasses because they thought they spoke for god.
Show me any piece of Catholic scholarship that is remotely as awesome and mind-blowing as this, a study on the shape and history of the Universe:
Give me anything that's 1% as convincing and I'll convert in an instant. Until then, I hope you die and rot, you miserable relic of superstition and hatred.
But you, the Catholic Church, will never produce anything remotely as truthful as that study on the topography of the Universe, qualified and incomplete though it is. Instead you'll natter on about virgin births and bodies taken up to heaven, with occasional diversions fitting the maximum number of angels onto heads of pins. Have fun with all that, just stay out of my way you corpulent bloated anachronism.
2,000 of years of navel-gazing does not infallibility make.
Catholic Church: you are hereby my mortal political, temporal, and moral enemy. Your own actions and lies have placed you in that position, until you achieve the following two things, necessary and sufficient to reclaim your place in polite society:
1) Stop claiming that you are the keepers of universal truth.
2) Stay the hell out of politics.
Since that will never happen, I'll take any chance I can get to kick you when you're down. Please feel free to excommunicate me, as my initial childhood involvement with you was against my will and not looked back upon fondly, and you're screwing up my life these days, too.
I don't even feel bad about hating you, Catholic Church, because you certainly aren't one to live and let live, and that's my minimum requirement for respect.
You have declared that dialogue with you is impossible, for how can the Catholic Church bend to any when it is the sole arbiter of truth? For that I condemn you with all my heart, every ounce of my being.
You scorn all else, and thus I scorn you, Catholic Church.
Don't bother defending yourself in kind terms based on your community and good works, Catholic Church. If something proceeds from lies and derangement, and discounts all but itself, a bit of polish and shine little makes up for the disease at the core.
SUMMARY: DOWN WITH THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND ITS MANY ERRORS. YOU ARE USELESS AND ON BALANCE A FORCE FOR GREAT EVIL AND LIES. Such I pronounce. And don't forget, I am infallible on such matters, speaking ex-ex-Cathedra.
I was on Wikipedia, and somehow ended up reading about Catholic Apologetics and the infallibility of the Pope and inerrancy of the Bible.
Not a topic to soothe my mind with, and a bad way to mentally prepare for staying with my ultra-Catholic in-laws next week.
But seriously, Catholic Church, if you advocate things which involve violating the Law of Conservation of Mass and then claim you are infallible, and then use circular reasoning to justify the whole sorry mess, I'm going to call you out as wrong and a vicious liar.
"By the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, of the Blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, and by our own authority, we pronounce, declare, and define it to be a divinely revealed dogma: that the Immaculate Mother of God, the ever Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory." -- Pope Pius the 12th, 1950
The scope of observations that we've made about the universe covers the scale from individual subatomic particles to giant galactic superclusters and background radiation from the Big Bang. That's solid, dependable, re-verifiable knowledge. If you had to start over from scratch you'd find the exact same thing.
You, the Catholic Church, think that heaven and hell depend on randomly believing preposterous things with no evidence and no usefulness, and then claim you're more accurate at discerning truths then the scientific process which can divine billions of years worth of history. Essentially you are mentally ill as an organization. Science is powerful because it knows it's full of errors and corrects for them over time. 20 centuries of Popes helming your rock are jackasses because they thought they spoke for god.
Show me any piece of Catholic scholarship that is remotely as awesome and mind-blowing as this, a study on the shape and history of the Universe:
Give me anything that's 1% as convincing and I'll convert in an instant. Until then, I hope you die and rot, you miserable relic of superstition and hatred.
But you, the Catholic Church, will never produce anything remotely as truthful as that study on the topography of the Universe, qualified and incomplete though it is. Instead you'll natter on about virgin births and bodies taken up to heaven, with occasional diversions fitting the maximum number of angels onto heads of pins. Have fun with all that, just stay out of my way you corpulent bloated anachronism.
2,000 of years of navel-gazing does not infallibility make.
Catholic Church: you are hereby my mortal political, temporal, and moral enemy. Your own actions and lies have placed you in that position, until you achieve the following two things, necessary and sufficient to reclaim your place in polite society:
1) Stop claiming that you are the keepers of universal truth.
2) Stay the hell out of politics.
Since that will never happen, I'll take any chance I can get to kick you when you're down. Please feel free to excommunicate me, as my initial childhood involvement with you was against my will and not looked back upon fondly, and you're screwing up my life these days, too.
I don't even feel bad about hating you, Catholic Church, because you certainly aren't one to live and let live, and that's my minimum requirement for respect.
You have declared that dialogue with you is impossible, for how can the Catholic Church bend to any when it is the sole arbiter of truth? For that I condemn you with all my heart, every ounce of my being.
You scorn all else, and thus I scorn you, Catholic Church.
Don't bother defending yourself in kind terms based on your community and good works, Catholic Church. If something proceeds from lies and derangement, and discounts all but itself, a bit of polish and shine little makes up for the disease at the core.
SUMMARY: DOWN WITH THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND ITS MANY ERRORS. YOU ARE USELESS AND ON BALANCE A FORCE FOR GREAT EVIL AND LIES. Such I pronounce. And don't forget, I am infallible on such matters, speaking ex-ex-Cathedra.
jim - 12/22/08 13:53
Yeah, I'm done with the Catholic Church and the Pope. No more respect from me, ever. I am not 'a wound'.
Yeah, I'm done with the Catholic Church and the Pope. No more respect from me, ever. I am not 'a wound'.
james - 12/22/08 13:05
Let me reiterate that Pope Benedict is a piece of shit.
:::link:::
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict said on Monday that saving humanity from homosexual or transsexual behavior was just as important as saving the rainforest from destruction.
Let me reiterate that Pope Benedict is a piece of shit.
:::link:::
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict said on Monday that saving humanity from homosexual or transsexual behavior was just as important as saving the rainforest from destruction.
jenks - 12/21/08 19:18
Can I have an AMEN?!
;)
David Cross does a good bit on the infallibility of the Pope- says if he's so infallible, they should take him to vegas. "Didn't you hear the man? The Pope says the ball is on 11 red, I don't care if you say it's on 4 black! The church wins! Again!"
Can I have an AMEN?!
;)
David Cross does a good bit on the infallibility of the Pope- says if he's so infallible, they should take him to vegas. "Didn't you hear the man? The Pope says the ball is on 11 red, I don't care if you say it's on 4 black! The church wins! Again!"
james - 12/21/08 18:03
The first Vatican Council was called to confirm Pius IX "Syllabus of Errors". In which he condemned liberalism, rationalism, Socialism, separation of church and state, Democracy. Thirty years later in 1910, Pius X made all clergy take "the Oath Against Modernism" which all clergy took until VC2.
The point I want to make is that since the early part of Pius IX reign in the middle of the 19th century, there has been only one reformer Pope. A majority of the Pope's since have been reactionary, entrenching the doctrine and political structure of the Church in the philosophy of Papal absolutism. It leads into the future while its eyes are on pre-French Revolution Europe.
Pope Benedict says the Vatican cannot support a UN bill denouncing violence against homosexuals. He says inter-faith dialogue is not possible due to the inherent falseness of other beliefs. His predecessor was in the same vein, and did such delightful acts as Beatify a man guilty of crimes against humanity for his active role in genocide.
I wonder what usefulness this institution serves when it actively perpetuates ignorance and condones, no, rewards violence. For the faithful, I would wonder who has taken hold of the church and what violence they have done to it.
The first Vatican Council was called to confirm Pius IX "Syllabus of Errors". In which he condemned liberalism, rationalism, Socialism, separation of church and state, Democracy. Thirty years later in 1910, Pius X made all clergy take "the Oath Against Modernism" which all clergy took until VC2.
The point I want to make is that since the early part of Pius IX reign in the middle of the 19th century, there has been only one reformer Pope. A majority of the Pope's since have been reactionary, entrenching the doctrine and political structure of the Church in the philosophy of Papal absolutism. It leads into the future while its eyes are on pre-French Revolution Europe.
Pope Benedict says the Vatican cannot support a UN bill denouncing violence against homosexuals. He says inter-faith dialogue is not possible due to the inherent falseness of other beliefs. His predecessor was in the same vein, and did such delightful acts as Beatify a man guilty of crimes against humanity for his active role in genocide.
I wonder what usefulness this institution serves when it actively perpetuates ignorance and condones, no, rewards violence. For the faithful, I would wonder who has taken hold of the church and what violence they have done to it.
mrmike - 12/21/08 17:44
Hail, brother, well argued. As a former catholic, I agree with you completely.
Hail, brother, well argued. As a former catholic, I agree with you completely.
12/19/2008 11:05 #47109
Yuck
jim - 12/19/08 15:21
Going home :)
Going home :)
fellyconnelly - 12/19/08 13:25
where do you think you are going in this mess?
where do you think you are going in this mess?
matthew - 12/19/08 11:23
Just pretend you are home in utah, that's not snow it's wet sand!
Just pretend you are home in utah, that's not snow it's wet sand!
Congrats on not sick!