I am not getting my child Baptised

[Almanac]

Do you really believe all that verbiage, Almanac?

Really?

Of course I do. To generalise about the Church is completely pointless.

[Almanac]

Hang on a minute. That creep is an outspoken apologist for the legalised aggressive theft of wealth and commons from the many by the few. Then s/he tells lies to an earnest fool called a priest to get a cheap education for his/her sprog in what s/he considers a class-appropriate milieu. Yet the same wo/man would nail a dole fraudster to the floor in his/her foaming-at-the-mouth posts, while our 'die hard athiest' commits fraud on a priest so darling can rub shoulders with the bank manager's/factory owner's/goverment minister's/big farmer's offspring at cut-price rates.

I don't like hypocrites as a rule, but shameless greedy privileged hypocrites like 'greedyandbiased' should all end up in unmarked mass graves as far as I am concerned. 'TBF' and his/her likes are a plague upon this earth, and should never be humoured or tolerated.

Why take the bait?

[Toland]

Of course I do. To generalise about the Church is completely pointless.

To any objective observer, said verbiage is just makeyuppy nonsense.

Your "of course" is misplaced.

[charley]

To any objective observer, said verbiage is just makeyuppy nonsense.

Your "of course" is misplaced.

but you only attack the catholic faith,you don't ridicule muslims or buddists or scientologists ,aggressive anticatholic rather than secularist more like

[Toland]

but you only attack the catholic faith,you don't ridicule muslims or buddists or scientologists ,aggressive anticatholic rather than secularist more like

Dunno that much about the others (though I do have a go on occasions at all the listed targets), call me a specialist.

[Toland]

Anyway, Bertie (my moniker's inspiration) never mentioned "Aggressive Anti-Catholics" in his public pronouncements as far as I know.

[markeys]

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Markeys is worried Iarmhi Gael talks in the 3rd person.

But markeys agrees.

The OP needs to write to an agony aunt or other such caring person.

[Toland]

And yet so many people have sympathy and interest in his OP (we're now on post 80) and the thread is one hour old.

[sauntersplash]

This is a truly silly post.

Thanks.

Ceremonies mark events. That is a human thing. And they provide an occasion to celebrate (in this case the arrival of a new human being onto this magnificent earth).

Events mark events. That is a thing thing. What does performing an empty ritual which is designed to ape the ritual it was conceived to avoid have to do with celebrating anything? I mark the arrival of a new human being onto this magnificent earth by doing my utmost to be civil and kind to it. Everything else is a game of "dress up" to me and is disposable/frequently hilarious.

If your measure of the worth of an act stands in relation to its "human thing"[ness]. You should be quite fond of religion. It's very "human" indeed.

You need to work on your imaginative capacities.

I can assure you, this is one thing I most certainly do not need to work on.

How did your "humanist" ceremony go, by the way?

[eoghanacht]

Hang on a minute. That creep is an outspoken apologist for the legalised aggressive theft of wealth and commons from the many by the few. Then s/he tells lies to an earnest fool called a priest to get a cheap education for his/her sprog in what s/he considers a class-appropriate milieu. Yet the same wo/man would nail a dole fraudster to the floor in his/her foaming-at-the-mouth posts, while our 'die hard athiest' commits fraud on a priest so darling can rub shoulders with the bank manager's/factory owner's/goverment minister's/big farmer's offspring at cut-price rates.

I don't like hypocrites as a rule, but shameless greedy privileged hypocrites like 'greedyandtwofaced' should all end up in unmarked mass graves as far as I am concerned. 'TBF' and his/her likes are a plague upon this earth, and should never be humoured or tolerated.

Indeed, but i find it's best no to get so irked by TBF, he's a single thirty something accountant from limerick with little if any experience of the world and to be honest in most of his posts i find he is just trying to be outrageous as possible, if thats not the case then he is one of the vilest members of this good forum. Besides you could be describing most Irish people (present company excluded ofcourse ) in the first paragraph.

After all is that not a FF avatar your sporting?