Comments on: Bless me father

By: RhodesTer

RhodesTer — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:59:23 +0000

Keep that up, and you’ll be giving
Bing Crosby ANOTHER heart attack.

By: Grandad

Grandad — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:12:38 +0000

H - I haven’t a clue. I don’t think the pope has signed on the dotted line yet, so you can carry on the genetic research for a bit. And remember - there will be no farting after, either.

There is the reverse problem too. I ate meat on a Friday when it was a sin. Now it isn’t a sin any more. What about the people who went to hell before they rescinded the rule?????

Cathy - I agree. They’ll have to rename them. I can never remember the original seven, so I haven’t a chance in hell of remembering fourteen. So maybe I will get my chance in hell?

E Mum - If I can recall my youth…. if you confess a sin [even murder] you are forgiven, provided you promise to try not to do it again. The great thing is that the priest can’t tell anyone about it. It’s a pity the civil law doesn’t take the same attitude.

Brianf - Hell is being stuck in a lift with Bertie and Harney.

By: The Crabling Otter » Weekend in Clare - Saturday

The Crabling Otter » Weekend in Clare - Saturday — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:04:53 +0000

[...] Is giggling at mass a mortal sin? Well, it doesn’t matter - i think I’m already condemned to hell for living in sin with my girlfriend, takes the lord’s name in vane, coveting my neighbour’s very sexy, truly beautiful, sleek, black, 42″ Plasma television. Oh and let’s not forget that genetical modified microwavable meal I had last week. I really don’t think I’m suited to Pope Benedict the Idiot’s Sixteenth’s new batch of no-no’s. (Have a look at Bock’s Blog on this or Grandad’s ‘Bless me Father’ post.) [...]

By: Brianf

Brianf — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:55:51 +0000

Cathy, If you conduct unethical research you may spend etenity in review boards and ethics committees. Personally I think hell would eternity in a dentists waiting room.

By: English Mum

English Mum — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:17:33 +0000

Oh, and ‘cake or death’: classic. Love Eddie.

By: English Mum

English Mum — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:14:48 +0000

I don’t get religion. I come from a religious family but I struggle with spiritual stuff. So you go and tell them stuff you’ve done wrong, and you get forgiven? What if it’s something really bad like murder?

By: Cathy

Cathy — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:51:07 +0000

14 deadly sins doesn’t have a nice ring to it at all. 7 was good, 7 like the days of the week, 7 the magical number. Nothing magical about 14, and besides, they’ll probably move it to 17, and then deduct one or two and multiply a few… Also, they had good names, sloth, pride, gluttony, these were real names for real sins. Conducting unethical research does not evoke anything at all to do with fire and brimstones, only with review boards and ethics committees. Which is not the same thing as hell. Bring back fire and brimstone, and most of all, do NOT get rid of sloth and gluttony, they are my favourites!

By: H

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:32:32 +0000

When do these new mortal sins come into effect?

Will I be adjudged to have committed a mortal sin if I took some drugs last week, when drug taking was just a regular sin? I’m very confused…

By: Grandad

Grandad — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:53 +0000

J - And quite a few others I could mention.

Alan - I do. It’s the bloke at the top who always accumulates the power and the wealth and makes the strange decisions [and I'm not necessarily referring to the Church].

By: Alan

Alan — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:33:04 +0000

The man in the box is doing his job and the majority of them do that job extremely well and they aren’t sitting on personal fortunes. They are available 24 hours a day 7 days a week, 365 days a year. It’s unfair to use the one brush etc…. try to make a distinction between the man and the institution he happens to be part of.

Alan