At a loss where to start this afternoon. The Pope declares that condom-use is a slightly better option than a gay prostitute infecting a customer with HIV. Or at least that's what he said until we get the next correction/clarification. The Bishop of Willesden declares that the Royal Family are scroungers whose marriages never last, and says something mildly rude about the late Saint Diana. And the Poet Laureate refuses to get off her bottom and write a poem about the engagement. At least Bishop Pete made the effort. Proof once again that in this supposedly secular world, religion's busy doing stuff while atheists like Ms Duffy no doubt sit at home writing scathingly witty remarks on whatever has replaced the Dawkins forum.
Meanwhile the Irish must be livid. They were all keen to be a go-ahead modern secular economic powerhouse, and now it turns out they weren't much better at it than Iceland. But nobody cares because the Pope has said something about sex. You can't even fail properly these days when religion gets in the way.
Don't forget the Bishop of Lincon blessing the road gritters and claiming it leads to less accidents, hardly irrelevant...
ReplyDeleteWhen I first read the story about the Pope and Condoms, I thought that he was actually becoming human, however, it turns out to have been a misunderstanding. Apparently, you may only use a condom when Hell freezes over.
ReplyDeleteAs for Bishop Peter, he is obviously not a good driver, or he would have remembered to engage his mind, before putting his mouth (in the form of facebook) in gear.
Coming back to the Pope, perhaps he can offer Prince William and Kate some marriage preparation as the CofE will only encourage them to think for themselves, better that Rome calls the shots - think of the Wedding in Westminster Cathedral, not the Abbey - Archbishop Vincent will be beside himself (he is most of the time).
The alternative is the the Arch Druid to offer the hospitality of the Moot House at Husburne Crawley for the wedding, what a money making spin-off that would be.
I think Husborne Crawley would be the ideal venue for the Royal Wedding, the Archdruid is suitably unorthodox,in an orthodox way... and could probably offer better advice than the pope regarding many things, including her seminal text 100 uses for condoms!
ReplyDeleteSteve, as long as the Bishop doesn't suggest that, by being blessed, the gritter-drivers are exempted from the laws of the road, then I'm with him all the way. And on those Fen roads on the ice, the drivers need all the help they can get.
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