There was a time where, when Catholic clergymen tried to interfere in British politics, we burned then at the stake. Sometime I think this might be a good policy to reintroduce. Or failing that, some less fatal way of making them shut up.
Honourable Fiend agrees. Guido doesn’t, but does illustrate the amusing way in which conservatives have learned the traditional liberal pursuit of pretend outrage at imagined racism.
Obviously, hating the leaders and beliefs of the institution that is the Roman Catholic church along with, but slightly more than, other organised religions is not racist. Just necessary.
(updated to reflect the ambiguity between ‘Catholic church’ meaning ‘all people who are Catholic’ and ‘Catholic church’ meaning ‘the leaders and institutions of the Roman Catholic church’.)
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.
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.
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
"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.
As a Catholic Freedom Fighter tortured and murdered for defending my faith – I would say that wouldn’t I.
Hey JohnB: Where did you get the idea that shallowness, ignorance and bigotry were cool?
From my priest.
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?