tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15178007.post5622750670791889966..comments2024-02-25T16:56:47.627-05:00Comments on Magdalene's Egg: Class Warfare Waged by the Political ClassFather Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18170260624474428623noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15178007.post-53422606547882712372011-09-23T07:28:05.142-04:002011-09-23T07:28:05.142-04:00You tell him, Father A!
Anyway these atheist trol...You tell him, Father A!<br /><br />Anyway these atheist trolls are so bad at it. They should leave the insulting of religion up to us experts. We have far more experience of doing it properly than they will ever have :-)MadPriesthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15120376342802143188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15178007.post-51217177814789101072011-09-23T07:24:34.002-04:002011-09-23T07:24:34.002-04:00I wasn't putting words in your moth; I was ask...I wasn't putting words in your moth; I was asking a reasonable follow-up question: which classes of people do you think ought to be discouraged from using their rights to free political speech?<br /><br />But, and this is important, you will have to answer that question in your own blog, because this sort of trolling is just not acceptable here. If you want to comment on a particular point in a particular post, go ahead; if you want to insult religion as an idea, and all religious believers, you'll have to do it elsewhere.Father Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18170260624474428623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15178007.post-56256972163909426812011-09-23T03:23:52.170-04:002011-09-23T03:23:52.170-04:00But what do you bring to the discussion in terms o...But what do you bring to the discussion in terms of facts or logic? You and the Fundies just end up screaming past each other, quoting from the same book. If the Bible were clear, you'd have it figured out by now-but with over 1000 denomination, you can't even figure out most of the basics of organizing your own religion, let alone the country.<br /> You want to be treated seriously? Get a real degree in a real subject. Stop asking us to call someone "Doctor" who's got a degree that's easier to get than a BA in a hard science. And the stupid clothes and titles to get us to treat you with respect, differently from everyone else? Sorry-don't do it.<br /> Your own churches don't treat women as worthy to speak in public; the fact that Mainline Protestantism began to allow this after ww2 is a minor concession; the Orthodox and Catholics and Fundies and the "Churches of Color" don't.<br /> And I never mentioned those without college education-don't put words in my mouth. Or hands in my pockets.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15178007.post-50116693997284772092011-09-22T02:08:08.758-04:002011-09-22T02:08:08.758-04:00Yes, and I think internet trolls should stay under...Yes, and I think internet trolls should stay under their bridges.<br /><br />For the record, my seminary classmates included several chemists and a former JPL rocket engineer, so we were hardly all "humanities majors." And while we do get one modest tax-break (regarding our housing), we could get a lot more if we were some rich guy in Texas who puts a few cows on his estate and calls it a "farm." (Seriously; the Dallas suburbs are full of this nonsense).<br /><br />But the bigger question is whether you think other classes of citizen should avoid political discussion. It's pretty unseemly in women, isn't it? Should people with no college education be barred from voting? I mean, they don't know anything. For that matter, why do we let Congressmen talk about economics, when they obviously don't understand it?Father Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18170260624474428623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15178007.post-64571372088020524582011-09-21T21:52:19.130-04:002011-09-21T21:52:19.130-04:00I think clergy should stick to religion; the idea ...I think clergy should stick to religion; the idea that a bunch of soft0Left (or hard Right)humanities majors can get together and talk to their invisible friend and set the economy to rights is disturbing.<br /> Either that or lose your tax breaks. Why should non-believers take up the slack for your tax breaks?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15178007.post-61122116247823665312011-09-20T05:09:07.887-04:002011-09-20T05:09:07.887-04:00One of the main tactics used by the rich and power...One of the main tactics used by the rich and powerful is that of trying to make the poor feel guilty about fighting for a just society. I remember when Mrs Thatcher was prime minister in Britain she coined the phrase "the politics of envy."MadPriesthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15120376342802143188noreply@blogger.com