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Steve Shaw BS: The Pope in America (1751* d) RE: BS: The Pope in America 24 Nov 15


Yep. As I keep repeating (ha), your faith is your business. What you do with it may be mine. It can be just lecturing on "morals" (God, I'm getting like akenaton...) or it can be giving orders. Trying to get people to endure well-scrubbed, smiley Christians saying a prayer at the flicks, then getting all indignant when you're told no you can't. Never mind that Muslims, Sikhs, Jews and atheists also go to the flicks. They should be forced to put up with your free speech at your whim, just like we have to put up with Songs of Praise, Choral Evensong, Sunday Worship and Thought For The Day (all of which, like those faith schools, I have to pay for). Sending children to schools in which they will be taught that lies are true and that those lies are the path to deeper truths. Telling people that your tenets, predicated on those same lies, are sacred, and reviling you for criticising them. Telling people that abstinence is a virtue, that using condoms and masturbating are immoral, then that so is getting an abortion (the need for which could conceivably follow on from banning the first two, especially when combined with keeping people ignorant). Mainly, it will be celibate men who tell you this (now that Mother Teresa's gone to join the Choir Invisible). Those same celibate men will also tell you that the very idea of women in the hierarchy is totally unacceptable, that they're probably better off making the tea after mass or joining the Union of Catholic Mothers from where they can target vulnerable young women to moralise at. Eek! I think I'll collect my own set of morals, thanks.




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