Comments on: Virgin Mary Apparitions and the Rise of the Idiot Classes

By: Sweet Pete

Sweet Pete — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:54:52 +0000

Take a look at Henderson

http://ballyhaunis.blogs.ie/images/khenderson_01.jpg

There's much saner looking people up in St Joseph's.

By: Jethro Tull

Jethro Tull — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 10:34:17 +0000

Anyone know what happened in Knock yesterday?

By: Bock

Bock — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:01:26 +0000

That's because the Knock visions and the Rathkeale tree stump are bullshit and deserve to be laughed at.

Furthermore, the ridiculous blasphemy law doesn't cover taking the piss out of this nonsense. You'll have to work harder on your homework if you want to frighten people like that.

Are you 12?

By: late late

late late — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:46:13 +0000

dear Bock,

Have you heard Dara O'brian and Ryan Tubridy are to be criminally investigated for blasphemy on live tv by the Gardai under irish Blasphemy Laws and face fines of up to 25,000 not to mention ruined careers if found guilty. They laughed at Knock visions and the Tree Stump in rathkeale and it was all done on Live TV, Broadcasting authority are already inundated with complaints of blasphemy. go to http://www.rte.ie/player and set the interview to about 13 minutes thats when OBrian and Tubridy start talking. There is no denying it. It was last Fridays Late Late 6th November

By: Jonathan McCabe

Jonathan McCabe — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:36:58 +0000

Did you see the Telly? Knock was full of Knackers! Ugh ….

By: sniffle

sniffle — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:15:36 +0000

Excellent post there, Mr Bock .

By: Bock

Bock — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:02:25 +0000

Mcula — There's no established church in Ireland. You must be thinking of England.

By: frantheman

frantheman — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:41:33 +0000

I think Phil Chevron wrote this one. Seems, somehow, to be an apposite comment on the whole thing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzaqmSvSpUk

By: mcula

mcula — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:32:57 +0000

In Ireland, isn't the established religion the 'Roman Catholic' church, as opposed to the Catholic church?

I think it's a big difference.

By: Cynical Joe

Cynical Joe — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:50:03 +0000

@ frantheman: Thanks man, I appreciate the cathecism lesson. It brings back deeply repressed memories of a stuffy classroom on dreary November mornings and the musty smell of rain-soaked jerseys on old wooden desks. And the primary school teacher, standing up there, rambling on about this stuff that made absolutely no sense to my 8 year-old ears, but that we were supposed to absorb in glorious awe. I can still feel my head wanting to explode, not so much with the improbability of the story, which I could live with, but with complete incomprehension as to how so many adults and other kids could apparently just believe this stuff without realising how stupid it all was. The only consolation in the memory is the thought that I backed myself on this from a young age and I was right all along.

But you are right of course; there is only one god. Except that there are three gods. But to avoid the mathematical issues, the three gods are really one god. Three for the price of one; a bargain to appeal to the Jewish market, perhaps? One of the gods is the father of the other one, which may mean that he had to fuck himself, since there was nobody else around at the time. Oh, except for the mysterious third god, the ghostly one. Maybe the ghostly god took one up the shitter from the father god; which might explain why he has been sidelined, ghost-written out of the script for the most part. Maybe he's the gay brother that we never speak about; luckily he's invisible, so he's easy to ignore. But apparently he still inspires priests and brothers around the world, which may explain a few chapters in the Ryan report.

Ah, the comfort of delusion. Nothing ever has to make any sense; just listen and repeat, and all the uncertainty of the world is magiced away. You can understand the appeal perhaps, but the psychological price for foregoing reason and clarity is high. And we saw the results on rude display in a field in Mayo last weekend.