Comments on: Recession turns Limerick village into Father Ted set http://www.goaskmebollix.com/2009/07/09/the-holy-stump-of-rathkeale-turns-village-into-father-ted-set/ Hurling from the ditch Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:22:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Styrer http://www.goaskmebollix.com/2009/07/09/the-holy-stump-of-rathkeale-turns-village-into-father-ted-set/comment-page-1/#comment-368 Styrer Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:54:38 +0000 http://www.goaskmebollix.com/?p=206#comment-368 That man made gods and not the other way round is abundantly evidenced in shite like this, where pareidolia (a mis-firing of our evolutionarily evolved defence mechanism to be pattern-seeking) reminds us that we really are a bunch of pathetic bungling mammals. Spot on, whoever said: 'we're only a couple of chromosomes away from chimpanzees, and it fucking shows'. Witless twats. Styrer That man made gods and not the other way round is abundantly evidenced in shite like this, where pareidolia (a mis-firing of our evolutionarily evolved defence mechanism to be pattern-seeking) reminds us that we really are a bunch of pathetic bungling mammals. Spot on, whoever said: ‘we’re only a couple of chromosomes away from chimpanzees, and it fucking shows’.

Witless twats.

Styrer

]]> By: Five Lamps http://www.goaskmebollix.com/2009/07/09/the-holy-stump-of-rathkeale-turns-village-into-father-ted-set/comment-page-1/#comment-363 Five Lamps Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:48:26 +0000 http://www.goaskmebollix.com/?p=206#comment-363 You missed the best quote of all, from the Times article --- A spokesman for the Limerick diocesan office said the “church’s response to phenomena of this type is one of great scepticism”. “While we do not wish in any way to detract from devotion to Our Lady, we would also wish to avoid anything which might lead to superstition,” he said. --- Like believing that a piece of bread "mysteriously" turns into human flesh which the "Devoted" then consume is not "superstitious" .... P.S. "They must be pissing themselves IN Europe!" You missed the best quote of all, from the Times article

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A spokesman for the Limerick diocesan office said the “church’s response to phenomena of this type is one of great scepticism”.

“While we do not wish in any way to detract from devotion to Our Lady, we would also wish to avoid anything which might lead to superstition,” he said.
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Like believing that a piece of bread “mysteriously” turns into human flesh which the “Devoted” then consume is not “superstitious” ….

P.S. “They must be pissing themselves IN Europe!”

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