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"In order to acknowledge the collapse of Soviet Communism and the failure of fascism to re-emerge as a potent political force, I ditched Orwell's oppressive totalitarian state in favour of an entertainment-fuelled nihilism in which dim-witted citizens frittered away their lives watching web TV and working at slightly overpaid jobs to buy worthless junk. Where Orwell envisioned endless rows of soldiers marching in perfect unison to the strains of the Two-Minute Hate, I saw a world where nations had been replaced by trading blocs and the objects of hatred were the immigrants in our midst." - Ted Rall, "Why Bush Is Addicted To Perpetual War"
"If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't stupidity get us out?" -Will Rogers
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Nixon's Head: "My fellow Earthicans, we enjoy so much freedom it's almost sickening. We're free to choose which hand our sex-monitoring chip is implanted in. And if we don't want to pay our taxes, why, we're free to spend a weekend with the Pain Monster."
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"A Taste of Freedom"
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"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury. From that time on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the results that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.
The average age of the world’s great civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependency back again to bondage."
- attributed to Alexander Fraser Tytler "The Decline and Fall of the Athenian Republic" (1776)
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Fri, May 30 2008
GUYS IN DRESSES
This would be funny if it weren't so absurd.
First, two words: pedophile priests. Additionally, sexual abuse of parishioners of both genders and all ages. Diddling kids ain't all these sex-starved freakazoids do.
Second, the numbers of new seminarians is dwindling at an increasing pace. As in there's no new priests. Basically, because the church won't let them have sex. Which was not an actual requirement for the priesthood for like a thousand years, until the seriously sexually disturbed contingent took over.
Third, since when does the mere fact of owning a penis confer godliness? Especially when they are not supposed to even think about it, much less use it? I would think the ability to give birth is WAY more godly than simply being a sperm life-support canister. Which is all they are, since they aren't supposed to use their little pee-pees for anything else. The whole 'teaching, nurturing and support' fiesta is a total girl thing anyway. Guys just wanna fuck and fight, so let's get real.
Frankly, given their trackrecords so far, I think the church should categorically forbid males from being priests or anything else with any kind of direct or implied authority or moral superiority. They've proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that they consistently misuse and abuse it.
Besides, the whole dress thing is soooooo gay:
[Cardinals, pope and the fabulous Jackie O in full-length formal gowns - seriously, can anything be gayer than this?]
Vatican: Excommunication for female priests
VATICAN CITY, Associated Press - The Vatican insisted Friday that it is properly following Christian tradition by excluding females from the priesthood as it issued a new warning that women taking part in ordinations will be excommunicated.
The move dashed the hopes both of women seeking to be priests and of Catholics who see that as an option for a church struggling to recruit men.
A top Vatican official said the church acted after what it described as "so-called ordinations" held in various parts of the world.
Monsignor Angelo Amato of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith said the Vatican wanted to provide bishops with a clear response on the issue.
The church has always banned the ordination of women by stating that the priesthood is reserved for males. The new decree is explicit in its reference to women.
"The church does not feel authorized to change the will of its founder Jesus Christ," Amato said in an interview prepared for Vatican Radio that was released to reporters. The reference is to Christ's having chosen only men as his Apostles.
[Oh, what bullshit - the church excised all reference to Jesus's female disciples in the middle ages. They branded his girlfriend, Mary Magdalen, a whore. Insecure patriarchal asshole revisionism. Jesus would kick their asses if he were alive today.]
Asked whether the Roman Catholic Church was going "against the tide" in respect to other Christian confessions, Amato said the church was in "good company" with Orthodox and ancient eastern churches and that it was the Protestants who are breaking with tradition.
In March, the archbishop of St. Louis excommunicated three women — two Americans and a South African — for participating in a woman's ordination. They were part of the Roman Catholic Womenpriests movement, which began in 2002.
The decree was published Thursday by Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, which in a headline called the ordination of women a "crime."
The congregation said it acted to "preserve the nature and validity of the sacrament" of ordination.
The decree — signed by the congregation's head, American Cardinal William Levada — said anyone trying to ordain a woman and any woman who attempts to receive the ordination would incur automatic excommunication.
Pope Benedict XVI led the doctrinal office before becoming pontiff in 2005. Like his predecessor, Pope John Paul II, he has consistently rebuffed calls to change traditional church teachings on divorce, abortion, euthanasia, gay marriage and the requirement that priests be male and celibate.
"We didn't expect anything different now, but in 20 to 30 years they will be expressing their regrets when they will need more priests," said Vittorio Bellavite, an Italian spokesman for the international reform group We Are Church.
The Vatican released figures this week showing that the number of priests increased slightly worldwide between 2000 and 2006, with the growth in Africa and Asia. It said the number remained stable in the Americas dropped nearly 6 percent in Europe.
Catholics who are excommunicated cannot receive the sacraments. Amato said the penalty can be lifted if those so punished are sincerely repentant.
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