@circushead LOL...I LAUGHED OUT LOUD at the Blues Brothers, turd. It was a great satire, but far too simplistic. The nuns who taught me DID employ corporal punishment, but that kind of went out with Vatican 2. It was a fun movie to watch, though.
By the way, my own fave books in the bible are Ezekiel and Apocalypse. Great stuff. Right up there with the X-Men...lolol
@circushead No, no...I took years, reading all the garbage...then made my decision to reject it all in the space of a couple of months, after getting an education in comparative religions and doing some critical examination of some of the most basic pillars of Catholic 'theology' (read: swill) What I SAID was that anyone who really wanted to come to a realistic look at the church could do so in a few hours. Scams are easy to spot to the discerning eye.
@circushead Like I told you before, moron...I'm in my fifties. And I had the 'benefit' of being taught by Benedictines (read: penguins.) pfaugh...I pity the ones most who genuinely believed all that crap.
@circushead I didn't just attend mass every Sunday, you idiot...I attended mass EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK, because that was how Catholic schools started their day. I also served as an altar boy. I bought their load of crap hook, line and sinker for the first two decades of my life...time completely WASTED. I finally figured the scam out with a bit of help from some other sources that weren't based on a system of brainwashing. :D it was a GREAT day when I left the church forever.
@TheMercilessEye I believe your entire perception of the Catholic Church, it's education system, and rituals, has been gleaned exclusively from American movies and television. Principally 'The Blues Brothers'.
@TheMercilessEye You went through the entire canon of worthwhile Catholic literature (which you cleverly bookmark with single quotation marks because that's what you believe clever people do) in a matter of hours.
@circushead You wouldn't have been able to recognize any of the snake oil, kid, because you were fed it, bathed in it, steeped in it, and you BOUGHT the TRIP. Which makes you a perfect patsy...and more than a bit of a sap...lol. It took me years to UNlearn all the crap the nuns tried to pound into me, and I count myself as fortunate every time I drive by one of those stupid monuments to racketeering (read: church.) lol... Nice try, again, but...ehhh...go fuck yourself, shill.
@TheMercilessEye Doubtful, but let me take you at your word. So you were baptized in a Catholic church but did not attend mass on Sundays because your family was unobservant. You went to a Catholic school and were taught by lay teachers, many of whose attitudes toward the Catholic Church did not differ significantly from the ones you have today.
And then you dramatically rejected the Catholic Church.
@circushead "...worthwhile Catholic literature..."
No such thing, doorknob...lolol
TheMercilessEye 6 hours ago
@circushead LOL...I LAUGHED OUT LOUD at the Blues Brothers, turd. It was a great satire, but far too simplistic. The nuns who taught me DID employ corporal punishment, but that kind of went out with Vatican 2. It was a fun movie to watch, though.
By the way, my own fave books in the bible are Ezekiel and Apocalypse. Great stuff. Right up there with the X-Men...lolol
TheMercilessEye 6 hours ago
@circushead No, no...I took years, reading all the garbage...then made my decision to reject it all in the space of a couple of months, after getting an education in comparative religions and doing some critical examination of some of the most basic pillars of Catholic 'theology' (read: swill) What I SAID was that anyone who really wanted to come to a realistic look at the church could do so in a few hours. Scams are easy to spot to the discerning eye.
TheMercilessEye 6 hours ago
@circushead Like I told you before, moron...I'm in my fifties. And I had the 'benefit' of being taught by Benedictines (read: penguins.) pfaugh...I pity the ones most who genuinely believed all that crap.
TheMercilessEye 6 hours ago
@circushead I didn't just attend mass every Sunday, you idiot...I attended mass EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK, because that was how Catholic schools started their day. I also served as an altar boy. I bought their load of crap hook, line and sinker for the first two decades of my life...time completely WASTED. I finally figured the scam out with a bit of help from some other sources that weren't based on a system of brainwashing. :D it was a GREAT day when I left the church forever.
TheMercilessEye 6 hours ago
@TheMercilessEye I believe your entire perception of the Catholic Church, it's education system, and rituals, has been gleaned exclusively from American movies and television. Principally 'The Blues Brothers'.
Am I right?
circushead 6 hours ago
@TheMercilessEye I call bullshit on the nuns. How old are you?
circushead 6 hours ago
@TheMercilessEye You went through the entire canon of worthwhile Catholic literature (which you cleverly bookmark with single quotation marks because that's what you believe clever people do) in a matter of hours.
All 2,000 years of it? Wow, you read fast.
circushead 6 hours ago
@circushead You wouldn't have been able to recognize any of the snake oil, kid, because you were fed it, bathed in it, steeped in it, and you BOUGHT the TRIP. Which makes you a perfect patsy...and more than a bit of a sap...lol. It took me years to UNlearn all the crap the nuns tried to pound into me, and I count myself as fortunate every time I drive by one of those stupid monuments to racketeering (read: church.) lol... Nice try, again, but...ehhh...go fuck yourself, shill.
TheMercilessEye 6 hours ago
@TheMercilessEye Doubtful, but let me take you at your word. So you were baptized in a Catholic church but did not attend mass on Sundays because your family was unobservant. You went to a Catholic school and were taught by lay teachers, many of whose attitudes toward the Catholic Church did not differ significantly from the ones you have today.
And then you dramatically rejected the Catholic Church.
You had nowhere to fall from, pal.
circushead 6 hours ago