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28 Feb 2013
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11 Feb 2013
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10 Dec 2012
I missed this when I was away. In case you did too, here's Irish actor Dermot Magennis pulling no punches in this Eminem parody about the cover up of clerical child abuse by Bishop John Kirby.
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11 May 2012
Contrary to what you've probably heard, the Christian church's idea of marriage has not been the same for thousands of years. In fact, it used to be perfectly fine with gay marriage. And gay marriages between men were recorded in Ireland too.
Read the full text HERE.
Prof. John Boswell, the late Chairman of Yale University's history department, discovered that in addition to heterosexual marriage ceremonies in ancient Christian church liturgical documents, there were also ceremonies called the "Office of Same-Sex Union" (10th and 11th century), and the "Order for Uniting Two Men" (11th and 12th century).
These church rites had all the symbols of a heterosexual marriage: the whole community gathered in a church, a blessing of the couple before the altar was conducted with their right hands joined, holy vows were exchanged, a priest officiatied in the taking of the Eucharist and a wedding feast for the guests was celebrated afterwards. These elements all appear in contemporary illustrations of the holy union of the Byzantine Warrior-Emperor, Basil the First (867-886 CE) and his companion John.
Such same gender Christian sanctified unions also took place in Ireland in the late 12thand/ early 13th century, as the chronicler Gerald of Wales (‘Geraldus Cambrensis') recorded.
Same-sex unions in pre-modern Europe list in great detail some same gender ceremonies found in ancient church liturgical documents. One Greek 13th century rite, "Order for Solemn Same-Sex Union", invoked St. Serge and St. Bacchus, and called on God to "vouchsafe unto these, Thy servants [N and N], the grace to love one another and to abide without hate and not be the cause of scandal all the days of their lives, with the help of the Holy Mother of God, and all Thy saints". The ceremony concludes: "And they shall kiss the Holy Gospel and each other, and it shall be concluded".
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01 Apr 2012
Apparently this is how Jesus lost all that weight.
If for mothing else, this 80's Christian exercise "blessercize" video (because other exercise videos just aren't Jesus-y enough!) is worth it just for the insane theme tune which is already totally stuck in my heathen head.
"It's gonna be fun to blessercize with Jesus,
To be fit for him in every way...
I'm gonna blessercuze, blessercize,
Make my body fit and true,
I'll take good care of this temple you gave me,
And be a better servant for youooooooh!"
(thanks Florry)
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08 Mar 2012
Remember back in November when a crazy religious maniac delivered a nutty, slightly threatening notice to Pantibar? There were instructions to pin the note to the pub door, and it said that we were closing because we had "realised that homosexuality was a perversion" and "infects the surrounding area with vice and defilement" and needed to be "purged from society" for the "good of the nation" and that we were asking for forgiveness.
Well he came back tonight. Same notice except he's scratched out the old 'closing date' and put in a new one - next Friday. But this time he came right in to the bar at closing time to hand deliver it to one of the barmen and then started shouting that he had "authority from God!".
However because he came in to the bar this time we have the crazed eejit on CCTV.
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22 Dec 2011
You can read all about it on Tim Minchin's pissed off blog post, but the short version is that he was invited to write a new song to perform on the Xmas edition of Jonathan's show, which he did - it's a funny, irreverent song about Jesus - but when it came to it, ITV's Director of Television freaked out and had it cut from the show's edit for fear of upsetting the right wing press and the kind of Christians who feel they're beliefs are specially protected and can never be challenged, even in jest.
Here's the offending song. I quite like that Tom Cruise and his missus, members of Scientology, a "religion" that is notoriously touchy about criticism, are sitting there looking vaguely dazed.
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03 Nov 2011
How fabulous! The Irish embassy in the Vatican is to be closed. Sure the government is saying it has nothing to do with the Vatican's despicable behaviour or the recalling of the papal envoy to Ireland after the Cloyne report, but I don't quite buy that. I suspect they are just being diplomatic. But either way, love it!
Lets open an embassy somewhere useful instead. Like in Dollywood. Or Sitges! Well, now that the Vatican embassy is closed we have to reach out to the gays somewhere.
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09 Sep 2011
Popular Australian TV gameshow The Gruen Transfer pits competing advertising agencies against each other. In one segment called The Pitch, they invite two agencies to make short ads promoting a controversial idea, like invading New Zealand, or bringing back child labour. In four seasons of the show the only subject they had trouble finding two agencies to take on is this one: a campaign to ban all religion.
See the results of the two agencies who did take it on below. I like the first one best.
(via DangerousMinds)
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03 Sep 2011
Love this Yahoo Answers question and the top rated answer. It's from the UK version of Yahoo Answers which is no doubt why the top rated answer is the one it is. Gotta love those heathen Brits. (And delightfully there are plenty of other answers along the same lines)
(via DM)
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