should religious sonsabitches seek positions of terrestrial authority

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the US & the arab world'd probably get along fine if they realised they had this problem in common

― duane, Monday, 11 August 2003 00:39 (twenty-two years ago)

i don't mean any disrespect by callin em "sonsabitches", actually i got mad respect for a lot of religious motherfuckers

― duane, Monday, 11 August 2003 00:41 (twenty-two years ago)

obviously they shouldn't (though by "terrestrial authority" I assume you mean "secular authority"), but have they ever not?

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 11 August 2003 00:43 (twenty-two years ago)

holy roman empire to thread

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 11 August 2003 00:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Take away the religious part and I'd say 'no'. I mean, I'd have no problem if a religious person had authority, provided they weren't a sonuvabitch.

― oops (Oops), Monday, 11 August 2003 00:45 (twenty-two years ago)

If them religious motherfuckers want to have that kind of party, I'm going to put my dick in the mashed potatoes.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 11 August 2003 00:45 (twenty-two years ago)

by "religious sonsabitches" I assumed you meant clergy, don't really know why I thought that though.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 11 August 2003 00:47 (twenty-two years ago)

no i mean "terrestrial" authority as opposed to on mars or somewhere! no yr right i mean secular authority.

― duane, Monday, 11 August 2003 00:47 (twenty-two years ago)

just to distinguish it from authority within the church etc

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 11 August 2003 00:49 (twenty-two years ago)

but yeah you know what i mean - the conflict of interest, the thing jeebs said about camel:eye of needle::rich man:kingdom of heav.
also from the POV of those of us who think this life is all you get, do you want it in the hands of people who think otherwise. & stuff

― duane, Monday, 11 August 2003 00:51 (twenty-two years ago)

it's clearly always been a problem but sometimes unavoidable when religion is such an essential part of a society's structure

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 11 August 2003 00:52 (twenty-two years ago)

the Premier of Saskatchewan is a United Church Minister, and it seems to not really have much to do with his agenda. Though the United Church in Canada is very tolerant and liberal (they had gay & lesbian ministers like ten years ago), and he's a democratic socialist. But I've never heard him make any overtly religious statements.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 11 August 2003 14:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Should not Christians be great secular leaders too, if they really aspired to emulate Jesus and all that? There's not too much in the teachings and behavious of Jesus that wouldn't be a big improvement on, for instance, George Bush. I guess the same would be true of many or most other religions, but we all know that there is a gap between that theory and the reality.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 11 August 2003 17:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Quebec has a long history of church and state laying in bed together prior to the quiet revolution.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 11 August 2003 18:51 (twenty-two years ago)

usually with the church on top. I could extend this metaphor more graphically, but I gotta phone Chris P. right away.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 11 August 2003 18:56 (twenty-two years ago)

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