Romney Not a Complete Moron

It is tempting to classify all mormons as moronic by definition, given their weird beliefs - even by christian standards, but it was not until 37 minutes through  the documentary that Romney began to come across as such. This was when he made the 47% remark condemning that percentage of his fellow Americans for their failure to pay taxes.

Fourth Diatribe: The One Child

That Christians are deluded is not always best demonstrated by criticism of their writings. Just watch McGrath's eyes.

The one child issue arises about two thirds of the way through the above video.

McGrath is, of course, intellectually dishonest. His book The Dawkins Delusion refers to lectures he has given that demonstrate that Dawkins is wrong and, indeed, he tells us that he converted an atheist who was present at one of them. Publish the lectures. His book is short. He tells us that he is not going to deal with a large number of Dawkins' arguments because "those books will be written".

Third Diatribe: The Satanic Hierarchy (Catholic Version - blog interruptus}

If you are a catholic priest you must feel in need of forgiveness, even if you have done nothing wrong.

James Joyce told the rest of us quite a lot. Indeed I believe I know you intimately. No, I didn't mean it that way. Get your hand off my willy.

Second Diatribe: The Satanic Hierarchy (Anglican Version)

It is Sunday. So you get two posts for the price of one. This is an atheist tradition. I just invented it so it is now holy scripture.

The priesthood is not corrupt because of the fact that vestments enable child sex abusers to host tea parties for little children. This is less of a problem for Anglican priests (as opposed to Catholic priests) since they are at least allowed to have wives to fuck. It is still a problem, however. But, that is to confuse a single consequence (among many other undesirable consequences, equally inevitable) with an underlying cause.

One of the underlying causes is simply a matter of nomenclature.

For a religion based on the kid's philosophy to have generated such a list of titles is inherently evil and points to deeper levels of corruption. For instance:

The Most Revd and Rt Hon the Lord Archbishop
The Most Revd the Lord Archbishop
The Rt Revd and Rt Hon the Lord Bishop
The Rt Revd the Lord Bishop
The Rt Revd
The Very Revd the Dean
The Very Revd the Provost
The Ven the Archdeacon
The Revd Canon
The Revd Prebendary
Rural Dean
The Revd Professor
The Revd Dr
The Revd

What does Revd signify?

It is an abbreviation of "Reverend".

What does Reverend mean?

One who is to be revered. There is an alternative meaning but it is no better: one who must be respected (begging the question: for what?)

What did God say?

Well, you know that. He said he was the main man (I'm the Daddy) and you shall have none else.

Would the Daddy have approved all of these tin pot reverends aggrandising reverence for themselves?

No. The gates of hell are swinging wide open and the more "mosts" and "right honourables" they add to their self-diagnosed deservation for the reverence of us mortals the wider they gape.

Footnote

Deservation will not be in your dictionary. Deservedness will be. I like my word better.

First Diatribe: The Corruption of Prayer

In the beginning was one prayer, now there is prayer for the day on radio 4.

And He said unto them, “When ye pray, say: Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in Heaven, so on earth.

Give us day by day our daily bread.

And forgive us our sins, for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.”

Or in Matthew

In this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy name.

Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth, as it is in Heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Thine is the Kingdom, and the power and the glory for ever. Amen.

One of the kid's disciples badgered him into it because John had done it before. So the kid gave him a prayer, the prayer. He did not say - go forth and multiply. He did not say, now go away and create a million banal prayers of your own. The kid said if you need a prayer, ok, here's a nice simple one, covers all the bases. Don't fuck around with it.

All subsequent prayers are therefore blasphemy perpetuated by harlot priests. That, as you know, opens the gateway to hell.