If Muslim Clerics had Altar Boys

[Lancecastor]

... Would They become as popular in the USA as the Pope?

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Their alter boys/acolytes are perfessers and Congress and main stream media.

 

[Aella_]

Probably.
We all cry over aborted foetuses and cute pets whilst indulging in chicken ticka massalas.

 

[Lancecastor]

Probably.
We all cry over aborted foetuses and cute pets whilst indulging in chicken ticka massalas.

Your logic is impeccable!

 

[WonderPonder]

They have goats

 

[Hypoxia]

They have goats

And sheep. And little boy slaves chained to bedposts, crying. And somebody else's sister to rape. And the usual monotheistic self-delusion.

 

[Lancecastor]

And sheep. And little boy slaves chained to bedposts, crying. And somebody else's sister to rape. And the usual monotheistic self-delusion.

Sounds like the GB.

 

[Hypoxia]

Sounds like the GB.

Precisely.

 

[Lancecastor]

Roman Catholicism is a bad very bery bad joke....billions being paid to pay off their pedo victims.

Why do Americans treat the Pope as an honored celeb?

 

[Ishmael]

Roman Catholicism is a bad very bery bad joke....billions being paid to pay off their pedo victims.

Why do Americans treat the Pope as an honored celeb?

What's interesting is that he's now the darling of the hard core left. I wonder how they resolve the paradox?

Ishmael

 

[Mr Noone]

Roman Catholicism is a bad very bery bad joke....billions being paid to pay off their pedo victims.

Why do Americans treat the Pope as an honored celeb?

Well he is a head of state. And RC is the largest denomination in the U.S. And even for lapsed or recovering Catholics, it's more than just a religion, it's a culture. Italians, Irish, Polish...even if they are not church goers, there's a connection.

 

[Lancecastor]

What's interesting is that he's now the darling of the hard core left. I wonder how they resolve the paradox?

Ishmael

He is the darling of the right on abortion and gay marriage.

He is everyones darling. Icky but true.

 

[Ishmael]

He is the darling of the right on abortion and gay marriage.

He is everyones darling. Icky but true.

Which begs the question, "How does HE resolve the paradox?"

Ishmael

 

[Aella_]

I personally dislike traditional christianity with their emphasis on sin and occasional self-righteousnes.
Nevertheless, what's the alternative? Anarchy? Or succomb to cynism an despair, like some "atheists" do?

 

[magicalmoments]

What's interesting is that he's now the darling of the hard core left. I wonder how they resolve the paradox?

Ishmael

Where is the paradox? Christianity is basically socialism with God added.

 

[OjosMojo]

Who let the papists out?

 

[Que]

I personally dislike traditional christianity with their emphasis on sin and occasional self-righteousnes.
Nevertheless, what's the alternative? Anarchy? Or succomb to cynism an despair, like some "atheists" do?

This makes zero sense, hashtag. The options are not Christianity or anarchy. Christianity is not here to impose order and law. The majority of the world is non-Christian and has not descended to anarchy. That is just silly.

Not even self-righteous people "emphasize self righteousness." People (such as yourself) who are self righteous are generally unaware they are doing it. They tend to believe that they and only they have the correct path in life.

Why would an atheist "succumb to cynicism and despair?" Belief in a deity may bring comfort to some, but whether one believes or not is no predictor of ones psychological affect.

 

[Aella_]

First of all, let us drop the "is Aella actually hssh"? It's counterproductive.
Secondly, I am well aware that I tend to be self-reighteous and opiniated, I don't need to be psychoanalysed on Lit to arrive to an 'aha' moment on that.

Thirdly, we all adhere to certain belief systems. Some people here are religious, some are atheists, and many GBers seem to be into philosophy or social sciences etc. You, for example, keep mentioning (directly or indirectly) concepts related to traditional psychoanalysis or TA.

And when I throw in -even if a tad aggressively or self-righteously- concepts, I don't do it to flame or to imply that I discovered these ideas. I am not a psychologist, a therapist or a social worker, but these ideas belong to some areas that I dwelled in during my (and I have plenty of that now, at the moment) free time:
- existential- humanistic theories, Yalom and motivational/oppresion/feminist literature.
Given your obvious background, you will be able to recognise the ideas that I keep parroting.

 

[Que]

First of all, let us drop the "is Aella actually hssh"? It's counterproductive.

No one is asking whether you are Hashtag. Everyone is agreed that you are Hashtag.

 

[Aella_]

And I'm here for my own reasons, and not to gain "notoriety", be it positive or as negative as it was recently. That's why I chose to change my user name, and I informed some people - so that they wouldn't become (understandably so), confused as to my reasoning.

I hope that from now on the two of us will stop picking on each other (I admit that I did that too, to you, at one point) and will keep carrying on.

 

[Hard_Rom]

The four most dangerous jobs in the world

Alaskan crab fisherman
Detroit firefighter
New York police officer
Newfoundland altar boy

 

[Que]

Hashtag, you seem incapable of introspection.

 

[Aella_]

Any GBer whom I offended: call me attention troll, asshole or mentally unstable.
Please all of you post your impressions here, or start another vanity thread.
I don't care.

As to whether you are twisting the truth, or alternatively, why I did what I did or whether I regret my previous GB actions or not:
I don't want to make any comment. Do you think I'm stupid enough to reveal, in this particular thread, any more details about my background or my motivations/thought patern?
So as to leave myself open and vulnerable aka a dog's dinner?

So I think this was good, that we both took things off our chest and we will both carry on.

 

[Que]

What if, instead of taking the time to call you an attention whore, they simply deprive you of attention?

 

[Aella_]

Oh, goodie,
we're clearly both on a dry spell at the moment, but we manifest it differently

EDIT.
And what's this thing about being called an attention whore? Why do people think it's an insult?
We all come here for human contact and in order to achieve that, one has to be noticed.
So what if I am more of an attention whore than others? Read your DSM: imo, me + a few others that I gravitate towards have histrionic traits (as well as other traits), you (imo) have obsessional traits (among others).
We are all different. I don't have to conform to YOUR standards in order to exist.

EDIT.
And I see that you edited your previous lengthy posts and reduced them to 1-2 sentences, and therefore, by contrast, my unedited posts look locco.
But I don't fucking care. I'm pissed off with you and it felt good to get things off my chest.