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POPSReligious Definitions of "Shit Happens"
The rest is here: AGNOSTIC ----------- Maybe shit happens, maybe it doesn't. STOICISM ----------- So shit happens ... I can take it. PAGANISM ----------- Shit is a part of the Goddess too. SCIENTOLOGY -------- Join a course and you'll know why shit happens. RASTAFARIANISM ----- Let's smoke this shit and see what happens. LAOTSEISM ---------- The shit that can be described is not the absolute shit. OSHOISM ------------ If you don't see shit in my eyes, in my gesture and in my silence, you will never find it in my words. BYRONKATIESM ------- What would you be without that shit? BACHISM ------------ If you give a few drops of this shit in a bottle and take it four times daily, you are able to better bear all the other shit. YOGANANDAISM ------- Always concentrate on the shit on the top of your head. RUMIISM ------------ Love that shit. FREUDISM ----------- Let's talk about your shit since childhood. PAPAJISM ----------- There is no shit. SATSANGISM --------- Damned, why don
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POPSTesting Ireland's new blasphemy law Ian O'Doherty's blasphemous statement: So, here we go -- Catholicism is a cannibal cult which eats its leader, Jews who believe that God wants them to settle in the Holy Land are deranged lunatics, Muslims who wants to install Islamic law are nothing but fascist terrorists and Scientologists are nothing but a bunch of brainwashed weirdos who have been suckered by the malicious rantings of a failed science-fiction writer. Alright lads, I'll see you in court.
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POPSEvery Ideology is Right Originally clipped by a non-thinker. I thought I would re-clip to add insight and clarity. This statement is true. Every ideology IS right. There is nothing inherently evil in ANY ideology. It may be that the ideology I despise most..Fascsim..is the best political ideology there is, and I believe it may be. Here is the rub. You cannot take any ideology in a vacuum. The best ideology for the current state of humanity is the one which allows for the greatest expression of liberty. Since, the closest one that allows for this happens to exist under the framework of Jeffersonian Democracy in this Republican system of government.
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POPSEvery ideology is right More: But you can't, because their ideology does correspond to some of their direct, lived reality. They're not just imagining it. And they'll fight hard against any attempt to tell them they haven't experienced what they've experienced. So instead of telling them they're wrong, you have to demonstrate that they're only seeing part of the picture. That's the theory, anyway. It seems to work as much as 2% of the time.
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POPSA Brief History of American Racism In 1882 President Arthur signed into federal law the Chinese Exclusion Act. Chinese immigrant labor was the infrastructure backbone of the 19th century California Gold Rush, but by the 1880s a significant economic downturn increased competition and turned up animosity. Fueled by scarcity-stoked fear, nativists pushed an anti-immigration agenda, culminating in the 1882 Act that excluded Chinese workers from entering the United States. In 1943 this act was repealed. Full article well worth reading at source
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POPSCatholic Martyrdom Catholicism, interesting ideas. I wonder what they would have done with Jesus' body parts if they could've found him. Also interesting, that Romans were told to convert to Catholicism or be beheaded. This seems to have gone full circle.
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POPSUS Catholic women face showdown with Vatican next week Leadership Conference of Women Religious next week "could be the last major struggle over a way of understanding what it means to be Catholic" - "on women’s ordination, the primacy of Roman Catholicism and homosexuality," on retaining the Vatican II ethos or yielding to the hard-line views of the last two popes.
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POPSAnti-Irish Sentiment
Irish people were concentrated at the lowest rungs of the employment ladder, often in jobs considered too unsafe for black slaves to carry out because the loss of a slave was an out of pocket expense for the owner. Subsequently, Irish employment was often restricted to the docks and other areas involving a high risk of injury. Irish men were locked in employment as unskilled laborers while women were employed as domestic servants. Their low level jobs and salaries created a vicious circle of under-education and poor employment. The city of Boston was an established home of anti-Irish feeling. This can be largely accredited to the large numbers of Irish immigrants that made their home in that city. By 1855, it was estimated that nearly a third of Boston’s population were foreign-born Irish – 50, 000 out of 160, 000. Boston was so Irish it was dubbed by one visitor as “the Dublin of America”. This caused a great deal of fear because people were afraid they would be overrun by Iri
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POPSCalles Law ...Designed to put teeth into the constitutional articles, it spelled out in specific terms the penalties for violations -- 500 pesos for wearing clerical garb, five years imprisonment for criticizing the laws or inducing a minor to join a monastic order, etc. The trouble came when Calles mulishly attempted to enforce the laws in strongly Catholic west-central Mexico, particularly the states of Jalisco, Colima, Zacatecas, Guanajuato and Michoacán and even more particularly the Los Altos ranch country of northeast Jalisco, focal point of what would turn out to be the terrible 1926-29 Cristero War. Shouting their battle cry of Viva Cristo Rey! ("Long live Christ the King!"), a motley assortment of ranchers, Catholic students and workers from Guadalajara and Indians from Jalisco's northern sierra held off the cream of the federal army for three years.
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POPSVatican’s Celestial Eye, Seeking Not Angels but Data In the Vatican Observatory’s annual report, at the point where a corporation might describe its business strategy, is a section delineating the difference between creatio ex nihilo (creation from nothing) and creatio continua: “the fact that at every instant, the continued existence of the universe itself is deliberately willed by God, who in this way is continually causing the universe to remain created.”
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POPSSex in 1984: Orwell and Catholicism The common thread among them is a view of human liberty in the positive sense. Whereas classical liberalism, following Hobbes, has a tendency to view liberty as the absence of impediments to free movement (the negative view), to find it in the silence of the law, or in a personal sphere defined by abstract rights, the positive view of liberty posits that it is also a state of mind. One may be free to do as one pleases, and easily become enslaved in their minds, hearts and souls to vice. The positive libertarian par excellence was Jean Jacques-Rousseau, who also had much to say about the relationship between virtue and liberty. A typical statement on the subject is found in the Discourse on Political Economy, where he writes There can be no patriotism without liberty, no liberty without virtue, no virtue without citizens; create citizens, and you have everything you need; without them, you will have nothing but debased slaves…
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POPSRome Is A Little Village "In the interview, he blamed psychologists for advising bishops that perpetrators could be treated and returned to work, and he blamed the Vatican’s tribunals for spending years debating whether to remove abusers from the priesthood. In one case, he said, the Vatican courts took so long deciding whether to defrock a priest who had abused dozens of deaf students that the priest died before a decision was reached. “The concern was more about the priests than about the victims,” Archbishop Weakland said."
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POPSDonohue's Knickers Knotted Anew Bill Donohue riles up the wing nuts again. It makes one wonder if he is capable of rational thought at all? Can he discern fact from fiction? Looks like no to all. It's sad that so many sheeple defend this person. IMO, this is parallel to the "war on Christmas" non-event that has become a yearly laughing point. If I was religious, I think I'd be very embarrassed by having this person in such an influential position. Later in the clip Donohue says: "It's not a secret, OK? And I'm not afraid to say it. That's why they hate this movie. It's about Jesus Christ, and it's about truth. It's about the Messiah." He later apologised for his remarks, saying he regretted the use of the word "controlled". :-(
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