I've changed my attitude on how I treat the religious. I was of the mind that the personal beliefs of any individual were their beliefs and however bizarre or fallacious they were, individuals had the right to hold those beliefs if it made them happy. I now think this is harmful to the collective. We have to evolve socially toward survivability. Holding on to actual non-physical descriptions of reality are not forwarding that evolution. I was, in social interactions, tolerant of people referring empirically to Gawd and faith and heaven and the inner city because I felt it was their right to be self delusional. What has changed my mind is the realization that our herd mentality will be one of the last things to go in our social evolution. The masses continue to worship celebrities, royalty, politicians, and fads blindly and recklessly. It is therefore more responsible to point out the absurdities of religion than allow their easy, salacious, and moribund transfer to the masses. If pointing out the ridiculous nature of religion becomes more popular, then perhaps it too will become a fad and the empirical among us can harvest the herd mentality to the benefit of our social survival. There are things we can learn from religion, but the most important is how to subjugate intelligence and create True Believers in mass movements.
P.S. Got the message Wounded Zebra. Stay off the Serengeti.
P.P.S: So God only applies to Catholics? The rest of us can act with impunity? The point is that the Pope believes that God has a plan and executes that plan. If God doesn't want the Pope's brains spattered, God will prevent it, and if he wants them splattered, he will allow it. It's been the religious cop-out for centuries that God works in mysterious ways and that God intervenes in reality. If God can't control assassins, then why call him God? If God is out of the interfering in human affairs game, why do we pray to him? The irony with the Popemobile is that the person who is the chief talker to God, is least accepting of His will. He just another humanoid in a funny hat that doesn't want to his brains blown out.
P.P.P.S: Naivete?
The bloody Pope and the Catholic dogma insist that the creator of the universe is taking an active role in our daily affairs. Every freaking saint had to commit a miracle. People can't do miracles, gawd acts through them to make the blind deaf or the lame speak. They've got two in the saint queue: bloody john paul and mother teresa. They're attributing supernatural acts to them. How does that happen? Because gawd has full admin rights to the universe and made the impossible happen through them. That's the freaking dogma. So, QED, when the pope rides around like anyone else in a bulletproof jeep, he's admitting that the laws of physics will apply to him no matter what and if someone wants to get him out of the child molesting business then gawd is not going to interfere.
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Thanks for the advice, but life on the Serengeti has always been about not giving in to terrorist threats. As a matter of fact, we zebras have a little motto we kinda' thunk up are own selves, "Eat Me". It seems rather comical to the hyenas but it really pisses off the lions and cheetahs.
Religion, just another $$ business. Recite crap from a book and sheep give you $$. no inventory, no middle men, little overhead.....I'm in the wrong business, we're in the wrong business!
I believe the 3 inch bullet-proof glass reflects a "lack of faith" in godless humans rather than in God himself—just to clear up that whole Popemobile thing.
Greg, you missed "NO UNIONS"—I'm surprised at you. Anyway, you're not corrupt enough to work for the Vatican. Now, our federal government is another story. You are definitely too corrupt for that. Maybe you should work for a more localized, corrupt bureaucratic $$ making business like a school district or something.
Look, the Pope puts on his dress just like all the other nuns. It seems naive to opine that he or any other Bible wielding superhero would believe God takes care of anything earthly, including fuck-nuts who want to blow the noggin off a “man” in a funny little hat. Like a good leftover, Bible worshipers plan to be saved for a later time. They hope someday to skip deliriously into a never ending afterlife-like amusement park called Heaven. Prayer and faith is the cost of that park’s entrance fee which, unfortunately, no longer includes parking.
There are lots and lots of christians who believe as the Pope believes, worship as the Pope worships and, unfortunately, dress like the Popes dresses. They are employed in all walks of life and still check for pinholes in their condoms. Christians (police) carry guns, (firefighters) hose down fires and (bishops) try to keep co-workers from serving time in the big house (and we aint talkin’ the Vatican). Most of these lunatics are not asking God to intervene in their lives with some type of divine hocus-pocus. Instead, like a Mapquest for the soul, they merely want God to give them directions and perhaps a few routing options to help avoid surface streets and toll roads.
And let’s be serious. This is the Popemobile we’re talking about. In the automotive world, the Popemobile falls somewhere between the Batmobile and the Wienermobile. And given the more recent Chatholic scandals involving priests diddling alter boys, one would have to give the nudge to anything with the word ‘wiener’ in it.
However, your blog does beg one very important question. How would the Pope react to being confronted and questioned about what you refer to as his hypocritical philosophies and funny little hat? I have pondered this for several minutes and have come to but one conclusion…..
“Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.”
The Dread Pirate Roberts
Thank you for the edification. You're right, I really don't know what the word “naïve” means. Honestly, I was just trying to avoid saying “fucking silly”. This, of course, would have been equally as absurd.
I was, however, under the naïve (Jesus, here I go again) impression that the Pope was fairly well educated and had still gotten a little horny from time to time. I ignorantly assumed he would have made the connection between himself and the physical world by his age, having most likely made quite a few thousand trips to the Vatican crapper. But you're right, that papal face putz probably thinks miracles are everyday events and that his Gawd would take a bullet for his noggin without any man-made interference. Hell, he probably blames Gawd for allowing him to grow old and frail and still lacking in the ability to see through the hot nuns' habits. Silly Pope.
And I must agree with you on the whole saint thing as well. Mudda Teresa's whole induction to the Miracle Hall of Fame is completely vomit provoking. Campaigning for sainthood after death is extremely nervy and should not be tolerated by the living. Dead people can be very arrogant sometimes. I mean, who comes back to life in the form of a photograph just to remove a cancerous mole off some lady's ass? Mudda friggin' Teresa, that's who. Talk about your hokey miracles. A photograph of that mug would scare the cancer out of a Hiroshima survivor. The only real miracle here is that they don't use that puss as an alternative to chemotherapy or body part removal.
Again, thanks for the edification.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1n5CQe1krI
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