A SILLY MAN WITH A DERANGED MIND

"To be frank, it read like the work of a silly man with a deranged mind. Though I could be wrong."

Said Robert on a recent post of mine.

To prove it here is a screen shot:

I pretended to be Robert and left the same comment on Richard's latest post which was is also silly and, to be honest more like the ravings from a deranged mind than mine.

So, Robert, who wrote this feels qualified I guess to make the judgement given that just about everything that he's ever written in his blog posts (and perhaps in his anonymous letters to the Mayor of Lower Hutt, Jacinda Ardern, the Pope and the mythical Virgin Mary) is the product of a deranged mind.

"Why do you say that?" might ask Robert, practising his Socratic Method. Well, let me tell you:

Robert is a Christian. He's also a Catholic which is a part of Christianity at the fringe - the lunatic fringe. I'm not saying that the other Christian sects aren't silly and deluded but, for the most part they are fairly practical and see the whole Jesus, Heaven, God, Resurrection and Communion thing in allegorical terms rather than as 'Gospel' truth the way the the Micks* do.

Catholics believe in lots of nonsense which is usually packaged up in puerile wittering written by naive and unsophisticated nuns over the last few hundred years and embodied in the Catechism. In this there is 'instruction' to children to believe in fairy tales stories like:

• The Immaculate Conception.
• The Resurrection.
• Heaven.
• Hell.
• Purgatory.
• Baptism.
• Limbo.
• Confession.
• The Divine Presence - god (Jesus) being present in some stale wafers that nuns make).
• Stigmata.
• The use of cilices and flagrums to get closer to their god.
• Holy Relics.
• Ascension of Jesus.
• Assumption of Mary.
• Miracles.
• Indulgences.
• Sin.
• Papal infallibility.
• Bible stories - Adam and Eve, the Flood, the Commandments and a whole lot of other rubbish.
• Canonisation.
• Much, much more.

In addition to the Catechism and religious instruction that Catholics have received, the Catholic Church, via their propaganda agents priests instruct Catholics every week at Mass in the form of sermons. These instructions don't have to be based on fact, common sense or decency but are the talking points of the day and updates on what 'Mother' Church (the Vatican) is currently pushing. Examples are the furthering of archaic beliefs like:

• Women are inferior and cannot have important roles in the Catholic Church.
• LGBTQ people cannot become priests and - (see the view of women).
• Sex outside of Catholic Marriage is a sin.
• Sex except for procreation inside a Catholic Marriage is a sin.
• The use of contraception is a sin.
• Abortion is a sin.
• Much, much more.

Now Robert to be fair doesn't promulgate all of this stuff but - he does push quite a bit of it in his posts to the point where he appears to be "a silly man with a deranged mind".

I guess that that is all that I'm saying.

" You just didn't listen hard enough."

* 'Micks' - a term used for Catholics I remember (as I was educated in Catholic schools) along with 'left-footers', 'mackeral snappers', 'papists' and 'hey you!'.