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Next week: How many voted waterboarding as their favourite form of torture?
@Paraic: And yet Julian Assange has done his sentence but the UK won’t let him leave jail until they sent him to the USA next year.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/may/31/julian-assange-shows-psychological-torture-symptoms-says-un-expert
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/31/world/europe/julian-assange-torture-un.html
No such thing as British or US justice.
Father Ted , Country.
Doesn’t actually tell us how many people voted for the Hail Mary, only the percentage.
Christopher Hitchens said he prayed once, for an erection. I wonder was that on the list of options for favourite prayer?
@Squiddley Diddley: with the amount he was drinking an erection would be truly miraculous.
@Seamus Mac: Who’d be the relevant patron saint Seamus?
@Squiddley Diddley: saint Pfizer i believe.
Thank God, I’m an atheist
A prayer. Is that something that old people do.
@Leitrim303: Old people and young folks who wear chinos with a shirt tucked into it, oh, and shoes.
@Mairead1990: But but Liamo you have yourself signed in as a 19 year old female student from Canada? Can you not just log back on as Graham Wilson again, you had a good run there
@Pickles: You’re gone a bit too crazy on me darling.
@Mairead1990: Crazy is relative Liam. Some people might call you crazy for being a fat middle aged bloke from Wexford pretending to be a 19 year old Canadian female.
@Pickles: Liam was buggered by a priest so turned to Islam for sanctuary
@Leitrim303: More miracles are recieved by prayer then this world dreams of
I bet there wasn’t much of a selection of prayers to go on? Always The Imitation of the Holy Cross but everyone has their own favourite for someone to insult publicly? The the same ones want respect and talk about compassion at the same time?
Religion eh? You just couldn’t make it up.
And in other news…. Santa will be here in just over 12 weeks.
The demonic saint Santa Muerte has replaced Mary in Mexico. Oddly enough the worship reminds you of Mary worship for statues are of a skeleton dressed up as her. Satan in Catholic belief is more powerful than Mary for Mary has only God’s power while Satan has his own. Yet Catholics claim she is protection against the wiles and attacks of the Devil. Why on earth then are we told to virtually invite Satan in by depending on her feeble “help”?
Jewish tradition had an evil female demon called the Lilith. It seems the early Christians tried to give it a new female demon to worry about! From hating the bishop at Medjugorje and telling St Bernadette to eat dirt the apparitions of Mary do not lend confidence to her. Jewish tradition is clear that Jesus’ mother was far from pure and holy. She was described as a hairdresser with loose morals.
The demonic saint of Mexico and other areas, Santa Muerte, Our Lady of Holy Death, has had the fastest growing saint cult of all time. She poses like Mary and dresses like her and presents as a skeleton. She has no history! Is that because she IS Mary and we are not supposed to know?
@Test Religion: we will all tune into the next episode on the sci-fi channel
Who gives a sxxt.
FFS..
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