The pond had sworn it had sworn off the Speccie mob, but the long absent lord works in mysterious ways to bring the faithful back, and who could possibly resist the onion muncher brooding on the bromancer?
Technically it should have been reserved for a meditative Sunday, but Friday is always the weakest day at the lizard Oz, and the crusaders have reserved all their hate, fear and loathing for the Victorian mob …
What better time then for a little Xian love and forgiveness of the Speccie mob kind?
With that meek and mild lamb, the onion muncher on the case - such an expert in Xian love and forgiveness - he would surely show the reptiles the path to redemption …
With that meek and mild lamb, the onion muncher on the case - such an expert in Xian love and forgiveness - he would surely show the reptiles the path to redemption …
Ah, of course, the pond forgot that line about not bearing false witness doesn't apply to the faithful of the onion muncher kind.
"Admittedly, this had only become relevant because the Australian Capital Territory wanted to institute same-sex marriage. Until that time, no one had ever thought it necessary to define legislatively what had always been beyond question."
Always been beyond question? Perhaps in the world of bigoted fundamentalist Catholicism, but hardly in the real world …
There have always been questions around marriage, from the days when people wondered whether married women might be allowed to own property to the memorable time in 1918 when the Aboriginals Ordinance restricted marriage between indigenous women and non-indigenous men in the Northern Territory … and there was always a murmuring about SSM, long before the Dutch government in 2001 provided an inspiration for locals (timeline here).
Greg Hunters might head off to remind themselves of the long history of same-sex unions ….
Greg Hunters might head off to remind themselves of the long history of same-sex unions ….
That said, there's something about the onion muncher's deep and abiding fear and loathing of teh gaze and his inability to let go which is profoundly Freudian …
To still see, at this stage, SSM as showing "how tenuous our cultural underpinnings have become" is a reminder of what a good hater, and what a good bigot, he is, and how lucky it was that he self-exploded with such grand barbecue-stoppers as the revival of knighthoods …
Maintain the hate and the rage!
The rest of us?
That's better understood as meaning the rest of the fundamentalist tykes, Johnson having been a devout Catholic, and in the usual Masonic-like way of the Catholic love for baubles, trinkets and meaningless decorations, having been made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Gregory the Great …
That's better understood as meaning the rest of the fundamentalist tykes, Johnson having been a devout Catholic, and in the usual Masonic-like way of the Catholic love for baubles, trinkets and meaningless decorations, having been made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Gregory the Great …
Of course it's only bitterness and envy on the part of the pond, which only ever achieved the exalted status of Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Tamworth Woodchuck Tiddly Winks Master …
And so a hint of melancholy before the old crusader kicks in and he urges a clarion call for a return to Catholic fundamentalism …
Oh yes, suffer the little children, so that they might be made to suffer under them one more time ...
Yes, suffer little children, with much more systematic abuse and a much more rigorous approach to organising your suffering ...
Love one's enemies?
Such a good hater, though at least for that moment looking in the mirror, the hater seemed to recognise the infinity capacity for hate, fear and loathing, whether it be teh gaze, or those who spurn dinkum clean Oz coal, oi, oi, oi, or enemies of the Malware kind …
Love one's enemies?
Such a good hater, though at least for that moment looking in the mirror, the hater seemed to recognise the infinity capacity for hate, fear and loathing, whether it be teh gaze, or those who spurn dinkum clean Oz coal, oi, oi, oi, or enemies of the Malware kind …
Strive to be better? In his dreams, for in his own Freudian way, he'll carry his hates, fears and loathings and sundry bits of bitterness to the grave …not the least the Malware chip that lurks on the shoulder, and the mote in the eye that looms large whenever homosexuality is mentioned ...
And so to the real Pope for the day, which requires a little exegesis …
First the faithful might need to flock to The New Daily to read $30m to Fox Sports, 484m from the ABC: the tale of two broadcasters ...
And then the faithful might need to flock to the Graudian to read No environment officials at Turnbull meeting about $443m reef grant to tiny charity …
Of course it's all covered in an Xian way by biblical instruction …
Reward your friends and smite your enemies, and make sure it's a damned good smiting ...
And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
And I will make this Ultimo building desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.
And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them. (A slightly mangled Jeremiah 18-19, KJV)
Good old Xian love, good old Malware generosity to the faithful … with more of the real Pope for the faithful here ...
Malcolm Turnbull, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Tony Abbott, Bill Shorten, Kim Beazley, Peter Costello, Mike Baird, Kristina Keneally, Penny Wong, Michael Tate, Andrew Hastie, Peter Khalil, Mary Easson.
ReplyDeleteWhat a gang of grifting charlatans and general hypocrites. And Abbott reckons he should have included Barnaby Joyce - in his chosen role as non-repentant sinner - and also Bob Carr as the obligatory 'conscientous objector'.
And to cap it all off, Kim Beazley on the front page as the leading fanboi. Well that's just one more, amongst many, books that I will have absolutely no regret at never having bothered to read. Life has always been too short to waste on rubbish such as that.
And in the meantime, this: "No environment officials at Turnbull meeting about $443m reef grant to tiny charity …" is just truly appalling - it puts the Muncher's obsession with knighthoods into the shade.
Oh, just in case you are bemused but tempted by yet another eternally repeated 'Big Fat Reptile Lie' - ie this one:
DeleteMuncher: "... that we should do unto others as we would have them do to us; and without an ingrained sense of our duty to protect the weak while encouraging the capable. All these have a Christian inspiration. Societies without Christian roots don't have such characteristics ..."
let me quote Richard Carrier:
Let me dispel a common myth: no, Christianity did not bring the idea of charity to the Western world.
The concept of charity and concern for the poor was already fully developed before the Christians borrowed the notion from their pagan and Jewish peers. It’s evident in Jewish wisdom literature, Cynic discourses, Stoic and even Epicurean moral theory, Aristotelian generosity and magnanimity, and the Greco-Roman institutions of philanthropia and euergetism.
Oh, and just for fun: "The data show poverty only increased under the Christians. For almost a thousand years."
[ See https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/12453 ]
Always funny to have people, who clearly have problems themselves, offering advice on what is good for us. You see this in any workplace where the morbidly obese offer diet advice, the divorced offer relationship counseling and the inept run the joint.
ReplyDeleteIt may be just my experience, but generally the balanced people I know don't seem to need religion. They may just not mention it, but that in itself would contrast with the "religiousity" of the Abbotts and Sheridans. The ones that go on about religion are the ones with a problem not a solution.
Which leads to the next point - why do they have to push it onto us? It seems faith is not enough.
I think it's maybe some variant on the "Daddy (or Mummy) knows best" syndrome, Bef - some kind of totally generalised "I'm right (because I'm who I am) and you're wrong (because you are who you are, ie you're not me)."
DeleteAnd yeah, some people can get almost as worked up about their infallible grasp of religion as others get worked up about the superiority of their chosen football team. And some do both.