Catholicism. Just say 'No'.

Vincent Nichols, the latest Archtwit of Westminster, was supposed to be the Vatican’s secret weapon.
The media savvy intellectual who was going to put all us gobby heathens in our place. The anecdote to all the belly laughs caused by the stream of misanthropic irrelevance spouted by his predecessor.
Fat chance, as his latest lame-brained interview with the Torygraph proves yet again.
Apparently Facebook is driving kids to suicide. No, honestly, the Archtwit says so at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/5956719/Facebook-and-MySpace-can-lead-children-to-commit-suicide-warns-Archbishop-Nichols.html. And he’s a really, really important clergyman so he knows these things and we should be terribly grateful that he takes the time to tell us poor, unedjumacated sinners.
Cos, you know guys, he cares about us. Well, more than he cares about kids who get their lives screwed over by priests anyway, because when they want to self-harm or commit suicide it’s just attention seeking and Vinnie’s god doesn’t like that sort of thing.
Sorry, I just fell off my chair laughing again. Any smackhead trying to flog a broken TV he pulled out of a skip could come up with a better sales pitch than this loser.
Honestly kids. It doesn’t matter how bad your day has been, or how many people and things in your life have got you down.
Catholicism just isn’t worth it.

Our Father, bang bang..... Amen

We shouldn’t laugh, really, we shouldn’t, but I defy anyone to read a tale of Californian faith-centred lunacy picked up by the sharp-eyed Feòrag over at Pagan Prattle.
In brief, a guy walks into a notorious evangelical ‘Cathedral’ in California while visitors are being told about the church’s ‘excellent’ suicide-prevention program. He hands a note to an usher, walks up to the cross……then shoots himself.
The bit I love in the report is that when church helpers heard the gun go off, they thought nothing of it, thinking he was just praying.
Worshippers pray with handguns in California? How scary is that!!
Turns out that it isn’t the first suicide by shooting in the church either. No wonder they have a suicide-prevention program – just a pity it doesn’t go beyond praying and collecting cash.
To be honest, even if I was faith-inclined, I think I’d also be a little wary of a ‘family-oriented’ church in California where one of the staff is called Manson. That really WAS a case of the family that slays together staying together, as I recall.
You can read all about it at http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/02/19/america/Crystal-Cathedral-Shooting.php ......and I do defy you not to snigger!