tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761538946854485154.post5953110403994965577..comments2024-03-11T03:02:29.875-06:00Comments on Simple Massing Priest: Wafergate - a throwback to a shameful pastMalcolm+http://www.blogger.com/profile/08469936715413110334noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761538946854485154.post-31857894623185789352009-07-21T20:46:39.052-06:002009-07-21T20:46:39.052-06:00I don't think I ever said that - or anything l...I don't think I ever said that - or anything like that.<br /><br />What is disturbing is the manner in which the kind of bigotry I read on Canadian Cynic and elsewhere flies in the face of the ostensibly progressive principles they claim to uphold.Malcolm+https://www.blogger.com/profile/08469936715413110334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761538946854485154.post-52181880334952372502009-07-17T21:28:23.386-06:002009-07-17T21:28:23.386-06:00Malcolm,
Don't have your e-mail. Check out my ...Malcolm,<br />Don't have your e-mail. Check out my blog. Go to the link. Watch the video. Tell me what you think<br />CPCountry Parsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02727241474360657192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761538946854485154.post-77579262575974384462009-07-16T08:29:51.066-06:002009-07-16T08:29:51.066-06:00I've been reflecting more on the Canadian Cyni...I've been reflecting more on the Canadian Cynic quote than whatever it was that the PM did or didn't do. It seems to me a typical case of confusing God with Dumbledore and Jesus with Harry. I continue to be surprised by how many people cannot separate the magical from the mystical. One of my Unitarian type friends is so stuck in a Newtonian universe that he is unable to apprehend the possibility of any event that contravenes Newtonian law, and, therefor all claims to the miraculous are nothing more than naive magical wishfulness.Country Parsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02727241474360657192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761538946854485154.post-83482207509147367612009-07-16T04:51:40.565-06:002009-07-16T04:51:40.565-06:00I'm slowly coming to the conclusion that many ...I'm slowly coming to the conclusion that many vociferous religious people and atheists are in reality deeply insecure, and therefore feel the need to criticise everything else that isn't included in their own world view in order to cling on more tightly to their own world view, so it may save them.<br /><br />What I would like to see in any religious row is the number of people on either side who vitriolically argue the toss, as well as the number of people who do not enter into the fray but just get on with living, loving and believing or not believing. <br /><br />It would give us a much rounder picture of what people of faith and atheists are actually about.Erika Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01812376497361267014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761538946854485154.post-75664483915503654922009-07-14T21:25:19.259-06:002009-07-14T21:25:19.259-06:00The thing is rather bizarre at a number of levels....The thing is rather bizarre at a number of levels. I do find it a bit remarkable that in 16 or so years of public life the PM had never had occasion to attend a Roman Catholic funeral mass.<br /><br />For the record, Brian, much of the subsequent news coverage included specific denials that he had shoved the host in his pocket.<br /><br />I still don`t get the virulent anti-Catholic (and / or simply anti-religious) rhetoric.Malcolm+https://www.blogger.com/profile/08469936715413110334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761538946854485154.post-3169240677708199632009-07-14T12:08:29.665-06:002009-07-14T12:08:29.665-06:00Possibly the simplest way to avoid this mess would...Possibly the simplest way to avoid this mess would have been to print the etiquette for the mass in the order of service (I assume they had an order of service given the importance of this funeral). How many others were at the funeral who were unfamiliar with the proper etiquette? One cannot assume in this day and age that people attending a Catholic funeral will know the etiquette.Erphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18037406583478493064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761538946854485154.post-58121225045585981992009-07-14T01:04:16.544-06:002009-07-14T01:04:16.544-06:00I worked as a teacher in Catholic schools for over...I worked as a teacher in Catholic schools for over 20 years. At first I, being an Anglican, abstained from taking communion but then at a staff retreat, the Jesuit priest told me that as a member of the school community I was welcome to partake. From then on I did so although I guess some celebrants would not have agreed if they had known.<br />I do not understand why he put it in his pocket, a stupid act.Brian Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10802352695666737088noreply@blogger.com