Comments on: Purge nostalgia

By: Jimmy Doyle

Jimmy Doyle — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 12:33:00 +0000

Fine. You were unlucky; not all priests are shallow, ignorant and bigoted. (Father Ted is not a documentary.) But did you have to see him as a role model?

By: john b

john b — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 11:35:00 +0000

From my priest.

By: Jimmy Doyle

Jimmy Doyle — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 11:32:00 +0000

Hey JohnB: Where did you get the idea that shallowness, ignorance and bigotry were cool?

By: Guido

Guido — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 12:42:00 +0000

As a Catholic Freedom Fighter tortured and murdered for defending my faith – I would say that wouldn’t I.

By: Andrew Bartlett

Andrew Bartlett — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 12:33:00 +0000

"I would need to see a convincing intelligence dossier demonstrating the level of threat"

I've got one, but if I show you the sky will fall in.

By: Al

Al — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 10:49:00 +0000

Both sides have cheerfully burned each other at various times but the best remembered in England at least, were the burning of some 300 protestants including Thomas Cranmer the Archbishop of Canterbury by "Bloody Mary". She was a kind hearted sort of girl who tried to reconvert England to Catholicism in a way that showed the true meanings of love, forgiveness and burning horribly to death

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 10:37:00 +0000

I’m pretty sure it was only Protestants who were burned at the stake — Catholics were hanged. The distinction is between heresy and treason.

I would need to see a convincing intelligence dossier demonstrating the level of threat before I would support bringing back drawing and quartering, mind you.

By: Al

Al — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 06:17:00 +0000

I’ll get the firewood and some firelighters, you know how difficult these things are to get going, maybe some petrol and lighter fuid as well. Parrafin’s always handy and some gunpowder if the wood’s too green. "Always be prepared to burn religious loonies in a psycopathic bloodfest" is a motto that’s hard to live by but ultimately rewarding.