One, the elected supreme pontiff, selected by a Conclave of Cardinals, after a lifelong process of evaluation and climbing through the Ranks of the Catholic Church until he reaches the position of Vicar of Christ.
The other, the Vicar of Putney, west London.
How come the second gets things so exactly right, while the first gets things so spectacularly wrong, against both the Historical Record, Science and even Scripture itself?
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Saturday 27 December 2008
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Anonymous commenters - please add a signature (doesn't have to be your real name) on each post of yours. Anne O'Namus, Norm D. Ploom, Angry from Kent, Demosthenes, or even your real initials, it doesn't matter.
Commenters are expected to be polite to each other, but the same standard doesn't apply to comments regarding me.
Australian commenters are very very strongly advised to publish anonymously. Sydney alone has more defamation actions than the entire USA and UK. Nearly double that of the UK in fact.
As Google does not reliably inform me that a comment has been posted, and I have no control over first publication, I assert that all comments are innocently disseminated under the NSW DEFAMATION ACT 2005 - SECT 32 and similar acts.
FYI. The quoted links (...long-standing policy... & ...Transitioning Our Shelters...) are broken.
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Oops, this comment belongs to the post above. Sorry.
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Transitioning Our Shelters is also available on the right hand side of the opening page of the Gender Centre website: http://www.gendercentre.org.au/index1.htm
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From the article being discussed:
ReplyDeleteSo where does this religious obsession with making babies come from?
I think it comes from natural selection. Religions that weren't pro-natal didn't survive.
Zoe says:
ReplyDelete“How come the second gets things so exactly right, while the first gets things so spectacularly wrong, against both the Historical Record, science and even Scripture itself?”
Err, given you didn’t explain why you thought Pope Benedict was wrong and the pretend priest from Putney was right I take it you’re just indulging in some kind of wishful thinking.