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    #32
    Doctor DooM
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,868 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


    nerin wrote: »
    LoL that would be some ban :rolleyes:

    Someone posted it earlier today...


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    #33
    Nerin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,523 ✭✭✭✭Nerin


    SDooM wrote: »
    Someone posted it earlier today...

    did they get banned like rtdh suggested?


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    #34
    Doctor DooM
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,868 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


    nerin wrote: »
    did they get banned like rtdh suggested?


    There were a couple of "trolly" responses, and rightly too. I'll mosey over and check.

    EDIT: It's still there!


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    #35
    Nerin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,523 ✭✭✭✭Nerin


    SDooM wrote: »
    There were a couple of "trolly" responses, and rightly too. I'll mosey over and check.

    EDIT: It's still there!

    good,even though its a joke,im sure serious discussion could be had of it. :D


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    #36
    Doctor DooM
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,868 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


    nerin wrote: »
    good,even though its a joke,im sure serious discussion could be had of it. :D

    I tried up above, with the I-can't-take-Ratzinger-seriously point. :)


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    #37
    adamd164
    Closed Accounts Posts: 247 ✭✭adamd164


    Yeah, once again the Christians are demonstrating their dumbfoundingly modest ability to laugh at themselves. How do they do it? :rolleyes:


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    #38
    Nerin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,523 ✭✭✭✭Nerin


    adamd164 wrote: »
    Yeah, once again the Christians are demonstrating their dumbfoundingly modest ability to laugh at themselves. How do they do it? :rolleyes:
    :D
    they are the religion with the best sense of humor ;)


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    #39
    Red Hand
    Registered Users Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Red Hand


    So funny! Can't wait for Ratzinger strikes back


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    #40
    Obni
    Registered Users Posts: 424 ✭✭Obni


    Just on a whim I tried
    www.god.ie

    It's either really subtle humour or just very odd.:confused:


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    #41
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    Right over your head, eh Obni? :D *pnewm!*


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    #42
    Halfdog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 87 ✭✭Halfdog


    Starwars and Roman Catholicism have something in common i.e. They are both myths :D

    pope-benedict-palpatine.jpg


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    #43
    Doctor DooM
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,868 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


    Halfdog wrote: »
    Starwars and Roman Catholicism have something in common i.e. They are both myths :D

    pope-benedict-palpatine.jpg

    I'd never noticed that before.

    Didn't Palpatine tell a story in revenge of the sith about a legendary sith lord who could bring others back to life, and was betrayed by one of his pupils?


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    #44
    adamd164
    Closed Accounts Posts: 247 ✭✭adamd164


    Pharyngula has noticed catholic.ie

    (ain't a hack, btw. pz had just assumed the cc weren't stupid enough to let the domain lapse!)


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    #45
    Galvasean
    Registered Users Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    Oooh, the C forum didnt like that one!


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    #46
    Dr Galen
    Registered Users Posts: 7,373 ✭✭✭Dr Galen


    i think that may have been the point.......


    either way very funny indeed. wonder what the fallout from that will be


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    #47
    stereoroid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 418 ✭✭stereoroid


    Anyone speak Spanish?
    Babelfish translation says: "A group of Atheistic Irish bought weeks ago the Catholic.ie dominion simply to hang in ridicule tone a science video fiction where “in a galaxy very very distant a new Pope settles down“, comparing the hierarchy of being able of the catholic church with Star Wars. If they understand to him, the narration in himself is quite graceful, and if it seems to them ofensivo… he is single a video, relájense. The real site of the Christians is another one."

    Ai ai ai... :rolleyes:


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    #48
    bipedalhumanoid
    Registered Users Posts: 297 ✭✭bipedalhumanoid


    Leon11 wrote: »
    This place must be full of geeks if the majority of you think this is funny!

    Taking the webname was funny I'll admit but I watched about 20secs of that video and all I got was that whoever did the video is a dreary fecker, jesus his voice would put you to sleep


    Yeah the clip does actually require a better attention span than that of a gold fish.


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    #49
    nesf
    Registered Users Posts: 27,645 ✭✭✭✭nesf


    Um, it's childish no?


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    #50
    Zillah
    Registered Users Posts: 17,371 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    nesf wrote: »
    Um, it's childish no?

    No.

    Its very intellectual satire.


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    #51
    Rev Hellfire
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,346 ✭✭✭Rev Hellfire


    nesf wrote: »
    Um, it's childish no?

    I'm sure it would have been an equal hoot if a religious group had got athiest.ie how we would laugh.


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    #52
    adamd164
    Closed Accounts Posts: 247 ✭✭adamd164


    Looking at it from atheist.ie's perspective, who gives a sh1t? Thousands of page views since purchasing catholic.ie and a load of new members.


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    #53
    nesf
    Registered Users Posts: 27,645 ✭✭✭✭nesf


    Rev Hellfire wrote: »
    I'm sure it would have been an equal hoot if a religious group had got athiest.ie how we would laugh.

    That's what I mean, it just strikes me as a prank rather than anything resembling satire. Don't get me wrong, I find the video funny, I just think that there's a distinct lack of respect in the action which is something I dislike about both sides tbh.


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    #54
    adamd164
    Closed Accounts Posts: 247 ✭✭adamd164


    Irish Atheists want to attract people to their website. Every visitor is a potential member. Has this video succeeded from that point of view? Moreso than could have even been expected. Take a look at the site stats over the last month.

    Incidentally, they did not make that video, it's by Adam Buxton. It may not be very pointed satire, but some would say that -- though quixotic -- it demonstrates admirably the bizareness that seems to be inherent in the Catholic Church's set up.


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    #55
    nesf
    Registered Users Posts: 27,645 ✭✭✭✭nesf


    adamd164 wrote: »
    Irish Atheists want to attract people to their website. Every visitor is a potential member. Has this video succeeded from that point of view? Moreso than could have even been expected. Take a look at the site stats over the last month.

    I don't disagree that it's an advertisement coup. I just find the whole incident a bit "hiding the teachers pencils" type stuff.
    adamd164 wrote: »
    Incidentally, they did not make that video, it's by Adam Buxton. It may not be very pointed satire, but some would say that -- though quixotic -- it demonstrates admirably the bizareness that seems to be inherent in the Catholic Church's set up.

    It's not so much bizarre as it is old fashioned pageantry left over from cultures long left behind tbh.


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    #56
    Red Hand
    Registered Users Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Red Hand


    Ritually cannibalising the son of an imaginary being is pretty bizarre if you ask me.

    But the video is not intellectual satire, just a bit of petty (but funny!) messing.


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    #57
    Doctor DooM
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,868 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


    Surely if the Catholic church were smart they would start looking to satires like this as something which highlights issues that need to be addressed in the modern day.

    Anything which doesn't face challenges stagnates.


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    #58
    Zillah
    Registered Users Posts: 17,371 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    nesf wrote: »
    That's what I mean, it just strikes me as a prank rather than anything resembling satire. Don't get me wrong, I find the video funny, I just think that there's a distinct lack of respect in the action which is something I dislike about both sides tbh.

    Since when is respect required for satire?


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    #59
    challengemaster
    Registered Users Posts: 16,930 ✭✭✭✭challengemaster


    brilliant :D


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    #60
    nesf
    Registered Users Posts: 27,645 ✭✭✭✭nesf


    Zillah wrote: »
    Since when is respect required for satire?

    Would you not see the difference between "The Life of Brian" and satirical acting during a Mass? I think there's a time and place for satire, I appreciate that many wouldn't agree with me on this, it's just a personal belief (I do hold a few :p).


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    #61
    adamd164
    Closed Accounts Posts: 247 ✭✭adamd164


    The Life of Brian is actually very close to reality. It's sort of like "Monty Python does Joseph Smith".

    I only wish Joseph's mummy had come out to the hordes of mormons one day and went "he's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy!"


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