RE: It's A Quote
September 28, 2022 at 12:40 pm
(This post was last modified: September 28, 2022 at 12:41 pm by Fake Messiah.)
The Catholics have it right. I love what they do. That whole the pope's infallible thing is tremendous. Let's face facts: If you took somebody with no religious leanings whatsoever and locked that person in a psych ward with nobody around and no stimuli, the Catholic religion is exactly what he'd come up with.
"Listen to this. There's this old guy in a dress, see? He wears all these great costumes and whatever he says, about anything from birth control to what to watch on television, that's it, 'cause pope knows best. He can't lift his head up, but, fuck, he's a genius."
But my favorite part of that religion is the act of confession. I've always been jealous of that. Catholics can fuck up all they want then go in a week later and tell the priest. "Oh, well, Father, I fucked up." And he says, "Hey, buddy, it happens. Here—eight Hail Marys and a side of fries, and you're home free."
~ Lewis Black
"Listen to this. There's this old guy in a dress, see? He wears all these great costumes and whatever he says, about anything from birth control to what to watch on television, that's it, 'cause pope knows best. He can't lift his head up, but, fuck, he's a genius."
But my favorite part of that religion is the act of confession. I've always been jealous of that. Catholics can fuck up all they want then go in a week later and tell the priest. "Oh, well, Father, I fucked up." And he says, "Hey, buddy, it happens. Here—eight Hail Marys and a side of fries, and you're home free."
~ Lewis Black
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
