Not to beat a dead horse, but I'm more than a little offended by how the Catholic Church spent centuries circling the wagons and protecting the pedophile priests while blaming their victims. I'm also a little miffed by the countless thousands the church had burned alive in the name of religion and morality. I will admit to being a sour old Vietnam veteran, but those things upset me far more than sticking a Dorito in someone's mouth. There is a message in how easily the church gets offended as it speaks to just shallow and fragile their faith really is.
I'm far more offended that an attention-seeking missile like Bill Donohue is still allowed to speak on behalf of the catholic church, while the church officials have still not acknowledged, apologized for and made reparations for the thousands of Native American And First Nations children who died at their boarding schools. But we're supposed to outraged by this? GMAFB.
Yeah, when you spend a bunch of time harming people, and benefiting from the system that perpetuates that harm, when you get mocked you do not then get to play the victim card. Because you aren't a victim. That's not how that works. That's not how any of that works.
Catholics weren't mocked. These seem to have confused a Dorito with the Eucharist which is pretty pathetic. They also are demonstrating a complete lack of humor as do most religious fanatics. Ask the Taliban, ISIS, Puritans, Orthodox Jews and Evangelicals when they last laughed. Fortunately most Catholics are sane.
Thank you. I am sort of happy that she is not a prisoner of her destroyed brain anymore. I've had nightmares hearing her screaming "Let me out! I want to be free" even though I know that's not how Alzheimer work. Now she is free.
That's how I felt when my Dad died. He was in such pain and so miserable that I was happy he was free. I'd miss him, but I was happy. It's makes it confusing. That's normal and ok.
To them, it's not really merely 'ritual', that has connotations of it not being real, but to them, it's bedrock dogma/creed, they ARE eating human flesh and drinking human blood. You can't really be a catholic if you don't also believe you're cannibal.
Absolutely. As a child I was told lurid stories, over and over again, about how "harming the host" resulted in buckets of blood. I even had books that lovingly portrayed this supposed effect. So when I was in 6th grade, a classmate and I decided to test whether the stories were true. Long story short: nada. Not a speck of anything resembling blood. I remember when we ran back to school, laughing our heads off, and sitting in Mrs De Cruz's homeroom class, wondering why our prank hadn't worked, as all the stories and books said it would. Just before 10:15 a.m. recess it hit me like a bolt out of the blue: because it wasn't true. My inevitable next thought was, if *that* wasn't true, what else have they been telling me that isn't true? By lunchtime, I'd answered my own question: practically all of it. That was when I began my campaign of resistance against being confirmed, which was due to happen in the spring, in about six month's time. I was 11 years old and that was in 1964.
Yep. Only cis, heterosexual men are allowed to become priests. Anyone else who tries gets excommunicated—and they wonder why nobody wants to be a priest.
First. The Catholic church has zero authority on anything. The right wingers are sooo desperate because they are losing, that this is all they have! That is the headline!
Secondly, the Catholic church priests/pedophiles should shut their collective mouths when they have paid multi BILLIONS! in restitution to rape victims who were CHILDREN at the time of the rape and other CATHOLIC OFFENSES!
Time to endlessly shame these useless cult members EVERY single time they dare claim offense!
The money wasn’t spent on restitution. Not the majority of it, and not willingly. The majority of the money was spent on protecting the pedophiles and sex offenders.
1) Bordel de merde*. Don't they have better things to do ? Are they so irked a mere woman dare to do what they should ? Deal with it, snowflakes.
2) The representations of Mary and Jesus are offensive toward Isis and Horus worshippers. Can we talk about the removal of all statues/painting/frescoes from your temples ?
* French lesson du jour. For fuck sake pour les refractaires.
"and I apologize for that."
No one should have to apologise when fighting for other people.
There is a whole segment of the internet influencer's community who live for the next thing that offends them so they have something to blather about and collect their clicks. It is wearying and I wish they would move on. Out in the middle of the Atlantic in a leaky rowboat would be just fine with me.
The RCC is whining about bigotry. The same group that had a wide variety of Inquisitions. The same group that supported the Nazis. Seriously?
Check your privilege, RCC. As a group, you've gotten away with any number of crimes through the years, and you're still wealthy and powerful. You've endorsed despots and iron-fisted rulers repeatedly, and provided no care at all to the masses desperately seeking shelter under your roof. One short video, even if it had been a criticism of your behavior, would hardly measure against the atrocities you've committed. 𝕐𝕆𝕌 are the problem here.
I swear, the RCC is the worst indictment of humanity ever. Maybe it's just time to take out the trash.
It was time to take out the trash about 1,000 squares back. I'm still wondering when the general public is going to wake up to the fact that faith is NOT a virtue. 😝
The Christians of the first Crusade were predominately Catholic. And THEIR cannibalism was literal, not merely ritualistic. Catholic Crusaders practiced actual widespread cannibalism on their Muslim counterparts at the Siege of Ma'arra (Ma'aarat Nu'man in what is Syria today) in late 1098.
Any apologies for THAT, RCC? Any outrage over the atrocities your religion's Crusaders committed? Speak up. I can't hear you over the sounds of crickets chirping.
All I have in my "Quotations" file from the kindly M. Amalric is this: “Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius. [Kill them all. For the Lord knows who are His.]”
—Arnaud Amalric (??-1225) French Catholic abbot and military advisor, on how to distinguish loyal Catholics from heretical Cathars after his Crusaders captured the city of Béziers, 1209 July 22
The National Catholic Register reported on this. They used a line in their story which I really, really wanted to reply to, but I knew it would never make it through.
"In what other setting does anyone kneel in front of someone to receive something on one’s tongue?"
Exactly! They ought to be more concerned that their ceremony looks more like porn than they’re concerned about this meme looking like their ceremony. I’ve been thinking that it looks like the end shot of porn for years. Imma ridicule the ridiculous.
Doritos contain more Jeezus than the bland little things a priest might feed you in church... not to mention the cheap grape juice they try to pass off as wine. What a bunch of prickly oversensitive sore-butt twits to be so easily offended by something that they incorrectly perceive to be a slam at one of their precious gawd-invoking superstitions! Choke on your church-crackers, and practice sucking it all down as if you were a cute little choirboy after all the Sunday mumbo-jumbo is over and you're left alone with the old guy in a robe who keeps caressing your bottom and smiling at you with barely-concealed lust. Now THAT is something at which you should truly be offended.
As an ex-altar boy, I rather liked the taste of the hosts, we often stole a few to snack on before mass, no I wasn't a cannibal for that since they hadn't had the magic handwaving BS done to them yet. Never got sexually abused either, damn, maybe i just wasn't cute enough, but a priest did grind a piece of chalk into my head in 4th grade, his standard way to discipline students. We all thought it was hilarious even though a bit painful.
I also am an ex-altar boy and luckily our parish priest was an alcoholic and not a pedophile. It also helped that I had poor bladder control and pissed my frock during mass.
Wow, so much pearl-clutching by the Catholic Church! They are having a moment of feeling superior, backed by the maga movement. Don’t they know that if donald and maga gain control of our country, the Catholic religion will be on the list as one of the many items to “go after”? Christian Nationalists won’t allow any talk about Mary Magdalene for sure. They will twist their god into an image of donald and that is who we will be forced to worship. Sounds dark, but Project 2025 is some of the scariest s*** I’ve ever read.
Well, I just had no idea that communion wafers came in spicy nacho flavor and the people show up for communion in baseball caps and casual clothes.
I wonder if the radtrad catholics missed the subliminal Dicks and vajayjays that were on those Doritos? I mean, once I saw them, I couldn't not see them. Dick Dick Dick and vajajyjays everywhere. And in spicy nacho flavor.
Doritos are triangles, triangles are the symbol for vagina*, just like things that are longer than they are wide are phallic. The insult here is that the host comes in circles not triangles, and the one giving the Eucharist was a female, making god a woman in this scenario.
*Judy Chicago used the triangle for vagina in her controversial piece “The Dinner Party”. The church took offense to that as well.
Not to beat a dead horse, but I'm more than a little offended by how the Catholic Church spent centuries circling the wagons and protecting the pedophile priests while blaming their victims. I'm also a little miffed by the countless thousands the church had burned alive in the name of religion and morality. I will admit to being a sour old Vietnam veteran, but those things upset me far more than sticking a Dorito in someone's mouth. There is a message in how easily the church gets offended as it speaks to just shallow and fragile their faith really is.
I'm far more offended that an attention-seeking missile like Bill Donohue is still allowed to speak on behalf of the catholic church, while the church officials have still not acknowledged, apologized for and made reparations for the thousands of Native American And First Nations children who died at their boarding schools. But we're supposed to outraged by this? GMAFB.
+++ I'm surprised he hasn't had anything to say about this. Donohue is a self-appointed professional victim, and a sorry excuse for a human being.
Yeah, when you spend a bunch of time harming people, and benefiting from the system that perpetuates that harm, when you get mocked you do not then get to play the victim card. Because you aren't a victim. That's not how that works. That's not how any of that works.
+++
Catholics weren't mocked. These seem to have confused a Dorito with the Eucharist which is pretty pathetic. They also are demonstrating a complete lack of humor as do most religious fanatics. Ask the Taliban, ISIS, Puritans, Orthodox Jews and Evangelicals when they last laughed. Fortunately most Catholics are sane.
Religious fundamentalists seem to be of the “stop having fun, you all” persuasion
"You crying tragic waste of skin"
Thanks Placebo.
and the Magdalen laundries, that they are trying to bring back.
Oh, hell yes. The Magdalen laundries. Only a religious organization could come up with such a hideous harm factory and call it 'good.' Sickening.
They keep showing us who they are: primitive numpties, who must be kept from power.
YOU TAKE IT OUT OF CONTEXT YOU DEVIL WORSHIPPER.
OT: My mum died last week. I lost her to dementia a few years ago and haven't been able to cry now. I cried my eyes out back then.
So sorry for your loss.
Thank you <3
Sorry to hear about your loss. I wasn't very close to my mother, and still grieved for at least a good year; be sure and take care of yourself.
Thank you. I am sort of happy that she is not a prisoner of her destroyed brain anymore. I've had nightmares hearing her screaming "Let me out! I want to be free" even though I know that's not how Alzheimer work. Now she is free.
That's how I felt when my Dad died. He was in such pain and so miserable that I was happy he was free. I'd miss him, but I was happy. It's makes it confusing. That's normal and ok.
Mine too, he lost his mind years before his body gave up.
I'm really sorry for your sadness, Straw. Losing a parent is hard, so hard.
So sorry, losing a parent is hard. May her memory be a blessing.
Very well said!
TY.
You may be as you described, but you are not wrong.
Yep. 💯
Yeah, leave our ritual cannibalism alone.
To them, it's not really merely 'ritual', that has connotations of it not being real, but to them, it's bedrock dogma/creed, they ARE eating human flesh and drinking human blood. You can't really be a catholic if you don't also believe you're cannibal.
Absolutely. As a child I was told lurid stories, over and over again, about how "harming the host" resulted in buckets of blood. I even had books that lovingly portrayed this supposed effect. So when I was in 6th grade, a classmate and I decided to test whether the stories were true. Long story short: nada. Not a speck of anything resembling blood. I remember when we ran back to school, laughing our heads off, and sitting in Mrs De Cruz's homeroom class, wondering why our prank hadn't worked, as all the stories and books said it would. Just before 10:15 a.m. recess it hit me like a bolt out of the blue: because it wasn't true. My inevitable next thought was, if *that* wasn't true, what else have they been telling me that isn't true? By lunchtime, I'd answered my own question: practically all of it. That was when I began my campaign of resistance against being confirmed, which was due to happen in the spring, in about six month's time. I was 11 years old and that was in 1964.
Isn't it great when your brain kicks in and you really begin to think! 💕. Congratulations for starting at such a young age.
That certainly fits in with the mummified pope on display in St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican city. I was horrified.
Bildo and his fax machine isn't mad that someone hand fed someone else. He's mad that it was a woman who holds a position of power that did it.
^THIS^ right here.
Yep. Only cis, heterosexual men are allowed to become priests. Anyone else who tries gets excommunicated—and they wonder why nobody wants to be a priest.
Cis, hetero, unmarried, celibate men. Allegedly ...
First. The Catholic church has zero authority on anything. The right wingers are sooo desperate because they are losing, that this is all they have! That is the headline!
Secondly, the Catholic church priests/pedophiles should shut their collective mouths when they have paid multi BILLIONS! in restitution to rape victims who were CHILDREN at the time of the rape and other CATHOLIC OFFENSES!
Time to endlessly shame these useless cult members EVERY single time they dare claim offense!
First and 1/2. Donahue has zero authority on anything catholic.
Boil it down, Donohue is little more than a self-appointed unofficial whiner for the Catholic Church. I'm sure he thinks he's more than that.
He isn't.
Allow me to correct your misspells.
donwhiner has zero authority on anything.
Autocorrect must have got me. : )
The money wasn’t spent on restitution. Not the majority of it, and not willingly. The majority of the money was spent on protecting the pedophiles and sex offenders.
...And yet they wonder why so few young people join the church.
1) Bordel de merde*. Don't they have better things to do ? Are they so irked a mere woman dare to do what they should ? Deal with it, snowflakes.
2) The representations of Mary and Jesus are offensive toward Isis and Horus worshippers. Can we talk about the removal of all statues/painting/frescoes from your temples ?
* French lesson du jour. For fuck sake pour les refractaires.
"and I apologize for that."
No one should have to apologise when fighting for other people.
Thanks for the French lesson. I've always wanted to be a bilingual potty mouth. Cheers!
Alternative version "Putain de bordel de merde*".
* To replace with "marde" if you are visiting Quebec.
Excellent! Merci!
😁👏😉
Trés bien!
There is a whole segment of the internet influencer's community who live for the next thing that offends them so they have something to blather about and collect their clicks. It is wearying and I wish they would move on. Out in the middle of the Atlantic in a leaky rowboat would be just fine with me.
I have a preference for sending them to check if Architeuthis can live in the Mariana trench, without a submersible.
Don't forget the battery and shark.
What did that shark do to you?
(Glad to see you're still with us.)
Not sure if this is "Waaaah. Waaah. Pay attention to us! Nobody's paying attention to us!"
Or
"Pro-choice woman in power. Must. Criticize!"
A bit of both, I think. They didn't call it a "parody of the Eucharist" when it was a Stephen Colbert did it, he is Catholic man.
The RCC is whining about bigotry. The same group that had a wide variety of Inquisitions. The same group that supported the Nazis. Seriously?
Check your privilege, RCC. As a group, you've gotten away with any number of crimes through the years, and you're still wealthy and powerful. You've endorsed despots and iron-fisted rulers repeatedly, and provided no care at all to the masses desperately seeking shelter under your roof. One short video, even if it had been a criticism of your behavior, would hardly measure against the atrocities you've committed. 𝕐𝕆𝕌 are the problem here.
I swear, the RCC is the worst indictment of humanity ever. Maybe it's just time to take out the trash.
It was time to take out the trash about 1,000 squares back. I'm still wondering when the general public is going to wake up to the fact that faith is NOT a virtue. 😝
They HAVE checked their privilege. And have decided it is not enough.
They remember the Dark Ages, when they had more power over entire nations than actual kings. And have decided it is not enough.
I for one am proud of my anti-catholicism. Buncha pederasts need to STFU about anyone else's lifestyle.
Just a reminder:
The Christians of the first Crusade were predominately Catholic. And THEIR cannibalism was literal, not merely ritualistic. Catholic Crusaders practiced actual widespread cannibalism on their Muslim counterparts at the Siege of Ma'arra (Ma'aarat Nu'man in what is Syria today) in late 1098.
Any apologies for THAT, RCC? Any outrage over the atrocities your religion's Crusaders committed? Speak up. I can't hear you over the sounds of crickets chirping.
"Tuez les tous, dieu reconnaîtra les siens
arnaud almaric, Français, légat du pape, siège de Béziers (ville française) 1209.
All I have in my "Quotations" file from the kindly M. Amalric is this: “Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius. [Kill them all. For the Lord knows who are His.]”
—Arnaud Amalric (??-1225) French Catholic abbot and military advisor, on how to distinguish loyal Catholics from heretical Cathars after his Crusaders captured the city of Béziers, 1209 July 22
The National Catholic Register reported on this. They used a line in their story which I really, really wanted to reply to, but I knew it would never make it through.
"In what other setting does anyone kneel in front of someone to receive something on one’s tongue?"
Um...
Exactly! They ought to be more concerned that their ceremony looks more like porn than they’re concerned about this meme looking like their ceremony. I’ve been thinking that it looks like the end shot of porn for years. Imma ridicule the ridiculous.
"How Do You Expect Me To Grow If You Won't Let Me Blow?" - Rachel Green
When my nephew (4 years old at that time) wanted to give me a candy 😁
Or when my grandkids wants to give me a chocolate.
Doritos contain more Jeezus than the bland little things a priest might feed you in church... not to mention the cheap grape juice they try to pass off as wine. What a bunch of prickly oversensitive sore-butt twits to be so easily offended by something that they incorrectly perceive to be a slam at one of their precious gawd-invoking superstitions! Choke on your church-crackers, and practice sucking it all down as if you were a cute little choirboy after all the Sunday mumbo-jumbo is over and you're left alone with the old guy in a robe who keeps caressing your bottom and smiling at you with barely-concealed lust. Now THAT is something at which you should truly be offended.
As an ex-altar boy, I rather liked the taste of the hosts, we often stole a few to snack on before mass, no I wasn't a cannibal for that since they hadn't had the magic handwaving BS done to them yet. Never got sexually abused either, damn, maybe i just wasn't cute enough, but a priest did grind a piece of chalk into my head in 4th grade, his standard way to discipline students. We all thought it was hilarious even though a bit painful.
I also am an ex-altar boy and luckily our parish priest was an alcoholic and not a pedophile. It also helped that I had poor bladder control and pissed my frock during mass.
Heehee, the chalk grinder was Irish and, let's just say, NOT a teetotaler
You are inspired today 👍
Wow, they’re just really scraping the bottom there.
That's all they really have.
I thought they had no bottom for their weird behaviour.
Once they completely scrape the bottom, they start digging to find a new bottom.
Wow, so much pearl-clutching by the Catholic Church! They are having a moment of feeling superior, backed by the maga movement. Don’t they know that if donald and maga gain control of our country, the Catholic religion will be on the list as one of the many items to “go after”? Christian Nationalists won’t allow any talk about Mary Magdalene for sure. They will twist their god into an image of donald and that is who we will be forced to worship. Sounds dark, but Project 2025 is some of the scariest s*** I’ve ever read.
Will? They’ve already had Don The Con replace their God about 8 years ago.
Well, I just had no idea that communion wafers came in spicy nacho flavor and the people show up for communion in baseball caps and casual clothes.
I wonder if the radtrad catholics missed the subliminal Dicks and vajayjays that were on those Doritos? I mean, once I saw them, I couldn't not see them. Dick Dick Dick and vajajyjays everywhere. And in spicy nacho flavor.
What's a mother to do?
Now that you mention it…
Doritos are triangles, triangles are the symbol for vagina*, just like things that are longer than they are wide are phallic. The insult here is that the host comes in circles not triangles, and the one giving the Eucharist was a female, making god a woman in this scenario.
*Judy Chicago used the triangle for vagina in her controversial piece “The Dinner Party”. The church took offense to that as well.
Now I am confused. When is a weenie not a vajajyjay? Help me! I've fallen down a rabbit hole and I can't get up!
"and the people show up for communion in baseball caps and casual clothes."
That part is actually true. Lots of football jerseys too, depending on the season and where you live.