skippy the bush kangaroo: what would that galilean carpenter think?

Sunday, July 31, 2011

what would that galilean carpenter think?

posted by mahakal at 10:33 PM |

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I'll hazard a guess. Jesus might think Stephen Fry is brilliant, glib, and witty, that he truly means well, and that he has suffered under the dogma of the church. But he leaves me wondering if he has read Aquinas, or Lady Julian of Norwich, or Richard Rohr, or James Martin. Even Oscar Wilde and Buffalo Bill converted, after all.

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Jude, 11:18 PM PDT

I don't think the Galilean carpenter read Aquinas either. :)

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mahakal, 12:27 PM PDT

The moment Widdenhouse mentioned the missions, which was only forty-five seconds into the clip, she lost the debate. I don't know for sure who said it first, but when white European Christians came to the New World, they had the Bible and the Indians had the land; some generations later, it was the white people who had the land and the Indians who had the Bible. This pattern was repeated elsewhere many times by other white European Christians, Catholic and Protestant, with basically the same results.

Whether or not the world would have been better off without the Catholic church, there's really no way of knowing -- you can't go back in time, prevent the emergence of the church, and see what unfolds instead. It might have been better, it might have spawned something worse. But one thing's crystal clear: the non-Christian people who actually witnessed the takeover of their native lands, starting with the Bible-toting missionaries and followed by their fellow Christian weapons-toting settlers, certainly would have been better off without it.

And as for that "charity" claim: if by "charity" she means giving someone a tourniquet after stabbing them in the belly, then yes, the Catholic Church has been doing one hell of a job for centuries.

Maybe that's what it's for...

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Jim Yeager, 7:26 PM PDT

Widdecombe. Not Widdenhouse.

And I've been sober since the 10th, too. Gonna be a long road for me...

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Jim Yeager, 7:29 PM PDT

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