waitingman: (Evil Cat)
... & if there's a heaven... & god lets this guy into it...

Then that god is either a blinkered, uncaring & unknowing idiot... or a rampant, unapologetic kiddy-fiddler. Because George Pell was without doubt one of those things... & possibly both

Either way, it's not a heaven I'd want to spend any time in, if that's the kind of company I'd have to keep
waitingman: (Idiot!)
There are, as you'd know, many things that grind my gears, but today it's a recurrent 'favourite' - religious hypocrisy... as practised by its blinkered masses

A couple of weeks ago, for the 'Women In League' round, my local NRL (National Rugby League) team, the Manly Sea Eagles, designed a special jersey to be worn for that week's game, where the usual white stripes were replaced by rainbow stripes, as a gesture of support to the LGBTQI+ communities. Almost as soon as this one-off jersey was announced, 7 players from the team declared they would not wear it & wouldn't play in the match, leaving Manly, already a long shot to make the semi-finals this year, clutching at every straw the reserve & junior grades could provide in order to field a team. The 7 players were mostly Pacific Islanders who were raised in the 'evangelical' faiths introduced by missionaries over 100 years ago & have swallowed its repressive, narrow-minded, bible-thumping bullshit without question. Their religion doesn't like gay people & therefore they won't play. Quite what their version of the Imaginary Friend upstairs would have to say about their playing for a football team whose major sponsor is a gambling service & whose home ground is named & branded by a local brewery, is not something that seems to have occurred to them

Of course, my team lost the match & with it any real hope of extending their season beyond the regular rounds. The next week, all 7 players were back in the team, despite some reported rumblings from players who don't give a fuck about what some god says & did the right thing by their team, their club & the non-brainwashed majority of the community. We lost that game too, with a pretty lacklustre effort that laid bare the cracks in the team's unity

Fast forward a couple of weeks & an erstwhile Manly player has been found guilty of stabbing a Mormon pastor in the back at a church function, apparently connected with some sort of 'gang' turf war being fought in a few of Sydney's more Islander populated suburbs. 3 of the 7 'religious' players have shown overt support for their guilty 'brother' - both on the field & on social media throughout the trial & since the verdict. Apparently, their Imaginary Friend upstairs doesn't mind a bit of gang violence along with gambling & alcohol abuse... just as long as you're not gay!!!!!

I support my local Club - I've been a Manly Sea Eagles fan my whole life & I love to see them win. I love seeing them do well & I accept the tough times when they don't. But if the Club doesn't throw some kind of book at these hypocritical wannabe-gangsters who think they can pick & choose the times when they want to play for the Club that's paying them X amount of thousands of dollars each for 80 minutes work per week, then I'll be sorely disappointed... & may start wearing the colours of my favourite AFL team instead
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And definitely 1 step back

Pope Francis has made the most extensive revisions to Catholic Church law in four decades, insisting that bishops take action against clerics who sexually abuse minors and vulnerable adults, commit economic fraud or ordain women.

So ordaining a woman as a priest is as bad as fiddling with a choirboy?!?!? Because apparently God does forbid that women can be priests... After all, the guys have been doing such a fabulous job for the last 2000 years...

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Harry's view...

The view from the base of the cross on top of Mt Davidson, San Francisco - something I'd always wanted to see, since the first Dirty Harry movie was on late night TV back in the day

I'm not what anyone could call religious, but I do have a fascination with religious iconography... the gods seem to get all the good sculptors & architects. It all seems a little hypocritical - flaunting power, influence & wealth in the name of a god that preaches love, tolerance & the common good - & not a little Tower of Babel as well, building such grand edifices that strive to touch the heavens. The fact that this is the 4th cross erected on the Mount, after 3 others burned down, would suggest that whoever's up there isn't all that impressed with it
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In the interest of remaining a viable species... I have come to believe that these kinds of people are surplus to requirements, expendable &, at worst, a drag on the rest of the species that's trying to evolve

And it would seem that Nature agrees

I know I'm supposed to be all humanitarian in these times of Plague, but really, there are some who just aren't worth it. That goes for both the idiot 'preachers' who spout this bullshit & for their 'flocks', who really must be the bipedal version of sheep to even consider believing it. Sorry - the human race can spare you. Say Hi to that god you think is your protector. Tell him we're all really glad down here, that he seems to be calling you home...
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