Comments on: Religious Crackpot of the Month, August 2008 http://www.apathysketchpad.com/blog/2008/08/24/religious-crackpot-of-the-month-august-2008/ Floccinaucinihilipilificating antidisestablishmentarianism since 2001. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:36:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: manigen http://www.apathysketchpad.com/blog/2008/08/24/religious-crackpot-of-the-month-august-2008/#comment-5206 manigen Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:38:53 +0000 http://www.apathysketchpad.com/blog/?p=910#comment-5206 "gluten-free wheat is “made solely from wheat”, just with a bit taken out" And you have to remove quite a lot of the wheat plant before you make the wafer with it anyway. “gluten-free wheat is “made solely from wheat”, just with a bit taken out”

And you have to remove quite a lot of the wheat plant before you make the wafer with it anyway.

]]> By: CessnaDriver http://www.apathysketchpad.com/blog/2008/08/24/religious-crackpot-of-the-month-august-2008/#comment-5202 CessnaDriver Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:09:12 +0000 http://www.apathysketchpad.com/blog/?p=910#comment-5202 The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is the office in the Holy See that, until about 1963, was known as the Office of the Inquisition. Pope Ratboy was it's prelate before his got his new job. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is the office in the Holy See that, until about 1963, was known as the Office of the Inquisition. Pope Ratboy was it’s prelate before his got his new job.

]]> By: Andrew http://www.apathysketchpad.com/blog/2008/08/24/religious-crackpot-of-the-month-august-2008/#comment-5201 Andrew Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:45:49 +0000 http://www.apathysketchpad.com/blog/?p=910#comment-5201 I think problems like this arise if you take scripture at its word as well. It doesn't matter how good you are at it: the best you can hope for from scripture-based morality is something that's at least one millennium out of date, and given how recently we legalised homosexuality and gave women the vote, that doesn't strike me as good enough. I think problems like this arise if you take scripture at its word as well. It doesn’t matter how good you are at it: the best you can hope for from scripture-based morality is something that’s at least one millennium out of date, and given how recently we legalised homosexuality and gave women the vote, that doesn’t strike me as good enough.

]]> By: Andrew Apel http://www.apathysketchpad.com/blog/2008/08/24/religious-crackpot-of-the-month-august-2008/#comment-5200 Andrew Apel Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:33:50 +0000 http://www.apathysketchpad.com/blog/?p=910#comment-5200 Problems like this occur when people subjugate scripture and faith for temporal advantages. Political advantages. What appear to be Sean McDonagh's wild speculations regarding canon law may well be the result of selective quotation by those who wish to subvert the teaching of the Church for their own ends. And there are many such. It's obvious from these accounts that either Fr. McDonagh, or those who repeat his words, are not scholars--and may be worse than that. The most important question before us, now, is whom to forgive for perverting doctrine, and why. Problems like this occur when people subjugate scripture and faith for temporal advantages. Political advantages.

What appear to be Sean McDonagh’s wild speculations regarding canon law may well be the result of selective quotation by those who wish to subvert the teaching of the Church for their own ends. And there are many such.

It’s obvious from these accounts that either Fr. McDonagh, or those who repeat his words, are not scholars–and may be worse than that.

The most important question before us, now, is whom to forgive for perverting doctrine, and why.

]]> By: Andrew http://www.apathysketchpad.com/blog/2008/08/24/religious-crackpot-of-the-month-august-2008/#comment-5198 Andrew Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:26:06 +0000 http://www.apathysketchpad.com/blog/?p=910#comment-5198 <blockquote>Clearly, they haven’t any weightier matters on their minds.</blockquote> I think one of the problems is that taking morality from scripture seems to lead to lumping GM wheat, homosexuality and cotton-polyester blend in with rape and murder, calling it "sin" and immediately losing all sense of perspective. They don't necessarily realise there <i>are</i> any weightier matters.

Clearly, they haven’t any weightier matters on their minds.

I think one of the problems is that taking morality from scripture seems to lead to lumping GM wheat, homosexuality and cotton-polyester blend in with rape and murder, calling it “sin” and immediately losing all sense of perspective. They don’t necessarily realise there are any weightier matters.

]]> By: Danny http://www.apathysketchpad.com/blog/2008/08/24/religious-crackpot-of-the-month-august-2008/#comment-5197 Danny Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:12:06 +0000 http://www.apathysketchpad.com/blog/?p=910#comment-5197 As if transforming a biscuit into the body of a strange god/human hybrid wasn't perfectly natural. But what about alcohol-free communion wine? As if transforming a biscuit into the body of a strange god/human hybrid wasn’t perfectly natural. But what about alcohol-free communion wine?

]]> By: jdc http://www.apathysketchpad.com/blog/2008/08/24/religious-crackpot-of-the-month-august-2008/#comment-5196 jdc Sun, 24 Aug 2008 14:40:43 +0000 http://www.apathysketchpad.com/blog/?p=910#comment-5196 "God, in his infinite wisdom and compassion, gave loads of people a medical condition that means they can’t eat wheat, and then required them to eat wheat every Sunday?" Yeah, he's got some sense of humour hasn't he? If he's not planting fake dinosaur bones to screw with people's minds, he's telling coeliacs to eat wheat and deliberately making them ill. Actually, it is quite revealing the time and energy some people will expend on trying to divine God's will in the field of crackers and biscuits. Clearly, they haven't any weightier matters on their minds. “God, in his infinite wisdom and compassion, gave loads of people a medical condition that means they can’t eat wheat, and then required them to eat wheat every Sunday?”
Yeah, he’s got some sense of humour hasn’t he? If he’s not planting fake dinosaur bones to screw with people’s minds, he’s telling coeliacs to eat wheat and deliberately making them ill.

Actually, it is quite revealing the time and energy some people will expend on trying to divine God’s will in the field of crackers and biscuits. Clearly, they haven’t any weightier matters on their minds.

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