Wednesday 21 October 2009

The Other Side Of The Aisle

'Come join us, we have no women or gays in our movement' isn't much of an advertising slogan but it is the carrot that the Pope is dangling in front of thousands of disaffected clergy of the Church of England.
It seems that after years of approaches to the Vatican from Anglicans unhappy with the way the Church of England fairly treats women and gays, the Pope has issued a decree that allows them to skip across to the Catholic side of the Christian faith. The top estimate is around 2000 priests defecting with as many of their women and gay hating congregations as they can persuade to come over with them.
So just why is the Catholic Church so full of misogynists and homophobes? It all comes down to to the fact that Jesus had no female disciples and because Eve ate that apple. That Eve, the one created from her husbands rib who himself was made from dust by someone nobody has ever seen or heard. When your whole faith is based on those origins you kinda expect them to be a bit loopy.
Gay people are not liked because they are just sinners and gay sex is an abomination against God who set down Adam and Eve and had no problem with incest as they went forth and multiplied.
To be honest i am totally underwhelmed whether some churchy types want to be Catholics or Church of England but at least now i, along with the 99% of the British population that don't attend Church of England services, can instead not attend Catholic masses as well.

4 comments:

Cheezy said...

...God who set down Adam and Eve and had no problem with incest as they went forth and multiplied"

This must be why the human race is so f&cked... we're all inbreeds... Dammit, I KNEW there was some truth in the bible somewhere...

Falling on a bruise said...

Some are more closer inbred than others. Have you ever been to East Anglia?

Cheezy said...

Yeah... they're creepy and they're kooky, they're altogether ooky, The Norwich Family.

That was the repeatable verse!

Anne said...

You two are killing me over here!
:)