Posted: April 6, 2009 at 12:08 pm | Tags: atheist, catholic, Religion
Back around Easter 2007, sculptor Cosimo Cavallaro created “My Sweet Lord” a life size, anatomically correct crucified Jesus in chocolate. The Lab Gallery showing of the edible Jesus has been cancelled due to the whining of the usual suspects, the Catholic League. Bill Donahue, president of the Catholic League, said the work was a direct assault on Christians. “All those involved are lucky that angry Christians don’t react the way extremist Muslims do when they’re offended.” Hey! Isn’t anger one of the deadly sins? Seems It’s okay to make any number of Messiahs from wood, stone, metal or plastic, just don’t dare make a Jesus out of anything edible. Odd complaint for a group of people who will file into church to eat the body of Christ every Sunday. Another complaint was that Jesus is shown naked, like that has not been done in countless religious paintings before.
The reason I mention this old story is with the Easter season upon us I have been seeing many Christian candy confections alongside the usual bunnies, eggs and let not forget those tasty little chicks Marshmallow Peeps.
Crosses seem to be very popular, with praying hands next, I myself found a tin of “Ichthus Mints” complete with tiny minty fish, I thought the tin box was cool and the religious symbolism a nice counterpoint to my heathen ways. You do know, Altoids are the work of the devil. 
This brings up the big question. If you are given a chocolate dead Jesus on a stick this Easter, do you bite the head off first? do you go for the feet? Or is licking the only Vatican sanctioned way of consuming the Lord an savior? Do you have to go to confession first? What about Jews, is noshing on the son of god kosher? How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Jesus-Pop?
Posted: March 22, 2009 at 11:32 am | Tags: catholic, medical myths, Religion
Pope Benedict again proved how irrelevant the church is on any subject outside the mumbo jumbo of religion by screwing Africa and not wearing protection.
Pope in Africa reaffirms “no condoms” against AIDS
In Africa where more than 25 million people have died from Aids and another 22.5 million have the disease, the pontiff actually told the faithful “It (aids) cannot be overcome by the distribution of condoms. On the contrary, they increase the problem,”!!!!!!!
And me with out a Pro!
WHAT UTTER STUPIDITY! He ignores the simple proven fact that use of a condom decreases the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. Sad part is the rather unsophisticated masses of the poorer sections of Africa will believe the man, and they are the one who suffer the most from the Aids epidemic. I guess they don’t realize the pope represents an organization that up to only recently has accepted evolution, an organization for whom it took hundreds of years to admit they were dead wrong on the heliocentric solar system. Seems to me taking sexual advice from a celibate person is like taking driving lessons from Ray Charles. Give the church another three of four hundred yeas and they may step out of the dark ages. And they wonder why they can’t but butts in the seats at church.
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Posted: March 11, 2009 at 9:26 am | Tags: atheist, catholic
Most religious groups in USA have lost ground, survey finds
It seems the non-religious are now the second largest group when the question of religion is asked. Americans who claim “no religion at all” is up to 15%, in 2008, it was only 8% in 1990. This now outranks every other major U.S. religious group except Catholics (25.1%) and Baptists (15.8%). The non-religious now out rank the general born again Christians who are down in the 14.2%. Protestant? 12.9%. Not very good for a nation that was largely Christian. Looks like the the challenge to Christianity is not going to come from the Middle East, (Muslim are only 0.3% to 0.6% in the US) but from people rejecting all form of organized religion.
Makes you wonder why politicians don’t try and cater to this new voting block? I say that jokingly because being A-theistic is not some club you join. As someone once said “getting atheist to ban together is like herding cats”. It’s far easier to get the religious types worked up over an issue, they are far more inclined to follow the herd or the lead cow anyway. When you are not religious, religion becomes just one more of the unimportant things you are not, and in life there as far more things you don’t believe in than you do. Chances are you do not believe in a South seas coconut tree dwelling Tiki god. Hey! me too, To me the Tiki god is in the same box of bologna as the popular sky daddy, virgin born, dead guy on a stick stuff.
Back around Easter 2007, sculptor Cosimo Cavallaro created “My Sweet Lord” a life size, anatomically correct crucified Jesus in chocolate. The Lab Gallery showing of the edible Jesus has been cancelled due to the whining of the usual suspects, the Catholic League. Bill Donahue, president of the Catholic League, said the work was a direct assault on Christians. “All those involved are lucky that angry Christians don’t react the way extremist Muslims do when they’re offended.” Hey! Isn’t anger one of the deadly sins? Seems It’s okay to make any number of Messiahs from wood, stone, metal or plastic, just don’t dare make a Jesus out of anything edible. Odd complaint for a group of people who will file into church to eat the body of Christ every Sunday. Another complaint was that Jesus is shown naked, like that has not been done in countless religious paintings before.
