A load of Papal Bull

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Desert superstition adherents among our loyal and diverse readership will be delighted to learn that His Holiness the Pope™ (brought to you in association with Whirlpool, emancipators of the distaff side since 1906) has hit the headlines again. Read more...

This time the old boy's put quill to parchment to express his heartfelt apologies for the clumsy way in which the Vatican handled the Bishop Williamson affair.

But here's the kicker, the treacherous stiletto between the Papal shoulder blades. Apparently the Bishops of England and Wales have issued a statement that, according to Damian Thompson (who strikes us a quite a nice bloke on the whole, if a little batty), leaves out the bits of His Holiness' missive that they don't like.

To be honest, we wouldn't know either way, but what staggers us is the sheer effort and intellectual rigour that many of the Holy Smoke bloggers put into their arguments.

Why not Harry Potter. Why not The Clangers?

As a certain Oxford professor (who is surely destined for eternal damnation) once said....

We who doubt that “theology” is a subject at all, or who compare it with the study of leprechauns, are eagerly hoping to be proved wrong. Of course, university departments of theology house many excellent scholars of history, linguistics, literature, ecclesiastical art and music, archaeology, psychology, anthropology, sociology, iconology, and other worthwhile and important subjects. These academics would be welcomed into appropriate departments elsewhere in the university. But as for theology itself, defined as “the organised body of knowledge dealing with the nature, attributes, and governance of God”, a positive case now needs to be made that it has any real content at all, and that it has any place in today’s universities.

Or, indeed, anywhere outside the fevered imaginations of 1.1 billion devoted fantasists.

Ahmedouttajail

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Man, that was stitched up with indecent haste!

Everyone's favourite text pest peer is free to bother us again. Read more...

Sets an intriguing precedent for anyone who wants to twitter or send emails while hurtling up the M1, strapped into a 2½ ton projectile, don't you think?

Our principal concern, however is for the state of the Noble Lord's health, to which end, we respectfully draw your attention to the sectioning option we proposed a couple of weeks ago.

And talking of splendid ideas....

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One of today's Greatest Living Englishmen, Pat Condell, had an interview published in AD (Netherlands) at the weekend. Read more...

Here is the transcript in full.

I believe the BNP is a racist party, and therefore I don't support them. They're getting more support now because the mainstream parties have consistently ignored people's legitimate concerns about multiculturalism, and many people feel they've been left with no choice but to vote for them. If politicians listened to what people actually want, the BNP would be nothing.

Quite, and while Geert Wilders gets unceremoniously bundled back across the North Sea, Ibrahim Moussawi is given a free pass to spew his hate speech wherever he wishes.

Does Jacqui Smith want to drive people into the warm embrace of the BNP?

Update....

Moussawi will not be given leave to enter the country.

Godless™

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As if they had nothing better to do with a shade over 1300 days before the next presidential election, Harris conducted an interactive poll last week, in which Americans were asked who they admired enough to call a hero. Read more...

Topping the survey of 2,634 people, whose grasp of history must rank alongside David Irving's, was the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama. The Lamb of God, who has clung tenaciously to the top spot since the first such poll in 2001, in the face of fierce competition from the likes of Magic Johnson and Elvis Presley, had to be content with second place. When contacted by The Slinger, The Redeemer's PR people were not available for comment.

That shock result in full (if you can bear to look)....



We'll be keeping a weather eye on this Obama fellow, because the day he actually does something heroic, the sense of universal beatitude will be something to savour.

Ahmedinajail

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Curious Snippets, among a host of others, returns to the Geert Wilders controversy following Lord Ahmed of Rotherham's motorway texting death crash trial. Read more...

Tush and fie, gentlemen! This man does not deserve our opprobrium. He deserves our pity. He is clearly in dire need of immediate clinical intervention.

He is after all the man who, in condemning Salman Rushdie's knighthood, compared the writer to a holocaust denier, and in the very same breath, without a trace of irony, referred to the "alleged Armenian genocide".

The evidence....



The possibility should at least be examined that long-term committal to a home for the bewildered would keep him off our roads, and our television screens, for considerably longer than a 12 week sentence for causing death by reckless driving.