I assume everone in the congregation cried tears of laughter at the last sentence.THE lives of people without faith have ''nothing beyond the constructs they confect to cover the abyss'', Cardinal George Pell said yesterday at a Mass to install the former Defence Force chief General Peter Cosgrove as chancellor of the Australian Catholic University.
''A minority of people, usually people without religion, are frightened by the future,'' Cardinal Pell, the Archbishop of Sydney, said during his homily at the St Mary's Cathedral Mass.
''It's almost as though they've … nothing but fear to distract themselves from the fact that without God the universe has no objective purpose or meaning. Nothing beyond the constructs they confect to cover the abyss.''
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I don't care what the cunt says - I'm not like that.
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"And our constructs are SOOOO superior to their constructs. Really. No shit. I kid you not. See? It says so right here in this book with the gilt edges."
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''A minority of people, usually people without religion, are frightened by the future,''devogue wrote:http://www.smh.com.au/national/cardinal ... 18cg3.html
I assume everone in the congregation cried tears of laughter at the last sentence.THE lives of people without faith have ''nothing beyond the constructs they confect to cover the abyss'', Cardinal George Pell said yesterday at a Mass to install the former Defence Force chief General Peter Cosgrove as chancellor of the Australian Catholic University.
''A minority of people, usually people without religion, are frightened by the future,'' Cardinal Pell, the Archbishop of Sydney, said during his homily at the St Mary's Cathedral Mass.
''It's almost as though they've … nothing but fear to distract themselves from the fact that without God the universe has no objective purpose or meaning. Nothing beyond the constructs they confect to cover the abyss.''
Why is it then that it is religion (and not atheism) that offers the prospect of life everlasting beyond the grave, in a luxury holiday camp?
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Ahh cardinal Pell. He's like a monkey after a lobotamy and three lines of cocaine.
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Fkn lol.Trolldor wrote:Ahh cardinal Pell. He's like a monkey after a lobotamy and three lines of cocaine.
The Pope was today knocked down at the start of Christmas mass by a woman who hopped over the barriers. The woman was said to be, "Mentally unstable."Trolldor wrote:Ahh cardinal Pell. He's like a monkey after a lobotomy and three lines of cocaine.
Which is probably why she went unnoticed among a crowd of Christians.
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*Composes a folk song about you*Charlou wrote:I'm the pinup girl of Australian atheismAussie Cardinal Attacks "Coarse" and "Uncaring" Charlou
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zmonsterz wrote:*Composes a folk song about you*Charlou wrote:I'm the pinup girl of Australian atheismAussie Cardinal Attacks "Coarse" and "Uncaring" Charlou
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Ah, Cardinal Pell. I don't know who's stupider, Pell, or the Sydney Angricans.
And one wonders about the constructs the cattleticks confect to cover their abuses.
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Can I be your sidekickCharlou wrote:I'm the pinup girl of Australian atheismAussie Cardinal Attacks "Coarse" and "Uncaring" Charlou
?To ignore the absence of evidence is the base of true faith.
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We'll be in this togethernellikin wrote:Can I be your sidekickCharlou wrote:I'm the pinup girl of Australian atheismAussie Cardinal Attacks "Coarse" and "Uncaring" Charlou
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You are on my bedroom wall in any case...Charlou wrote:I'm the pinup girl of Australian atheismAussie Cardinal Attacks "Coarse" and "Uncaring" Charlou
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Can I come down soon ... my arms ache and I need to pee.Xamonas Chegwé wrote:You are on my bedroom wall in any case...Charlou wrote:I'm the pinup girl of Australian atheismAussie Cardinal Attacks "Coarse" and "Uncaring" Charlou
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Charlou wrote:Can I come down soon ... my arms ache and I need to pee.Xamonas Chegwé wrote:You are on my bedroom wall in any case...Charlou wrote:I'm the pinup girl of Australian atheismAussie Cardinal Attacks "Coarse" and "Uncaring" Charlou
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