http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2010/02/stephen-fry-speaks-about-catholicism.html

Subject: CATHOLIC SHAMPOO




WHILE SHOPPING IN A FOOD STORE, TWO NUNS HAPPEN TO PASS BY THE BEER
COOLER.
ONE NUN SAID TO THE OTHER, " WOULDN'T A NICE COOL BEER OR TWO TASTE
WONDERFUL ON A HOT SUMMER EVENING."?

THE SECOND NUN ANSWERED,"INDEED IT WOULD SISTER, BUT I WOULD NOT FEEL
COMFORTABLE BUYING BEER AS I AM CERTAIN IT WOULD CAUSE A SCENE AT THE
CHECKOUT STAND."

"I CAN HANDLE THAT WITHOUT A PROBLEM" SHE REPLIED AS SHE PICKED UP A
SIX-PACK AND HEADED FOR THE CHECK-OUT.

THE CASHIER HAD A SURPRISED LOOK ON HIS FACE WHEN THE TWO NUNS ARRIVED
WITH A SIX-PACK OF BEER.
"WE USE BEER FOR WASHING OUR HAIR" THE NUN SAID,
"A SHAMPOO, OF SORT, IF YOU WILL."

WITHOUT BLINKING AN EYE, THE CASHIER REACHED UNDER THE COUNTER. PULLED
OUT A PACKAGE OF PRETZEL STICKS AND PLACED THEM IN THE BAG WITH THE
BEER.
HE THEN LOOKED THE NUN STRAIGHT IN THE EYE, SMILED AND SAID, "THE
CURLERS ARE ON THE HOUSE."

Fry has some decent points. The words of Cardinal Ratzinger in regards to the priest child abuse scandal are astonishing.

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1977 300d 70k--sold 08
1985 300TD 185k+
1984 307d 126k--sold 8/03
1985 409d 65k--sold 06
1984 300SD 315k--daughter's car
1979 300SD 122k--sold 2/11
1999 Fuso FG Expedition Camper
1993 GMC Sierra 6.5 TD 4x4
1982 Bluebird Wanderlodge CAT 3208--Sold 2/13

to say the least

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"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."

The amazing thing to me is not that the catholic church, or any church for that matter, says these things but that billions of people believe in and find some sort of perverted comfort in this kind of crap. And worse yet when the purveyors of this crap get caught, put in jail, and shown up for what they are their poor, benighted followers keep supporting them. As Lenin said, "Religion is the opiate of the masses".

Saw a small piece in today's paper indicating the Irish are putting pressure on the Pope to own up to the Church's role in the sex abuse problems in Ireland.

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1977 300d 70k--sold 08
1985 300TD 185k+
1984 307d 126k--sold 8/03
1985 409d 65k--sold 06
1984 300SD 315k--daughter's car
1979 300SD 122k--sold 2/11
1999 Fuso FG Expedition Camper
1993 GMC Sierra 6.5 TD 4x4
1982 Bluebird Wanderlodge CAT 3208--Sold 2/13

I have seen a number of reports on the diminishing role that religion is playing in European countries, esp. the catholic ones.

It is unfortunate that, as with the fundamentalists in any religion, it will be the poor and uneducated that fall for the church's line. They will give any money they have, do what the church says, breed like cockroaches while they are at it and then leave it up the the rest of us to pay the bill.

I think it was Marx

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05 Polaris Sportsman 800 EFI
06 Polaris Sportsman 500 EFI
03 SeaDoo GTX SC Red
03 SeaDoo GTX SC Yellow
04 Tailgator 21 ft Toy Hauler
11 Harley Davidson 883 SuperLow

Marx or Lenin, it doesn't make the statement any less true.

to say you have no idea what your talking about would be an understatement

paying for catholic school not only is the line very long and the standards very high but the cost is choking - the right CC gives more than anyone to all in need < Reason it is still around BTW

your correct in 3rd world country, the place they feed them by the thousands every day unlike what goes on in a place like Haiti - what happened to the 100s of millions again ??????

the standard of living in that church since WW2 has been very high you are incorrect what you have been told not experenced -- jz

Since singer Susan Boyle (who professes being a virgin) has been on TV,

there's been a marked drop in suicide bombings.

Apparently many of the terrorists didn't realize what a virgin looked like. jz

What's a virgin? What's it's use?

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01 Ford Excursion Powerstroke
99 E300 Turbodiesel
91 Vette with 383 motor
05 Polaris Sportsman 800 EFI
06 Polaris Sportsman 500 EFI
03 SeaDoo GTX SC Red
03 SeaDoo GTX SC Yellow
04 Tailgator 21 ft Toy Hauler
11 Harley Davidson 883 SuperLow

it would be nice to think your 13 / 14 year old granddaughter is NO

"NO"? Is that an abbreviation for something?

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01 Ford Excursion Powerstroke
99 E300 Turbodiesel
91 Vette with 383 motor
05 Polaris Sportsman 800 EFI
06 Polaris Sportsman 500 EFI
03 SeaDoo GTX SC Red
03 SeaDoo GTX SC Yellow
04 Tailgator 21 ft Toy Hauler
11 Harley Davidson 883 SuperLow

In my 67 years, 20 of which were spent traveling and working around the world, I have seen enough of organized religion to know that anything they give away comes with many strings attached. Granted their schools may give one a reasonable education but it comes at the price of having their form of science and morals force fed to very young and vulnerable.

How could you trust any institution that has a history of things like the crusades and the inquisition, the persecution of Protestants in the middle ages, hundreds of years of child abuse and church sanctioned protection of the abusers, support of the Nazi regime, the selling of indulgences, and not to mention hundreds or years of bilking the poor and gullible.

I live in a relatively poor and highly catholic (Hispanic) area of Texas. I see the catholic church at work every day and it is not a pretty sight. They convinced their members that the only way to heaven is through their doors and you can only get those doors opened by popping out kids ten to the penny and giving more than you can afford. Now if the parishioners get some sort of solace and peace from this scam it is all well and good but don't come mister righteous and pious to me about how yours is the true and only to heaven.