The Father Bob Show #45 - Baby Max has a vampire father and a werewolf grandmother
Bob describes some of his international operatives/activists of Open Family Online (previously Father Bob’s Ninjas). Let Bob or Michaela know if you would like a copy of “On the road again - A Street Workers Handbook”. Email Bob at sppchurch@hotmail.com or Michaela at michaela_w@hotmail.com.
We also discuss Bob’s latest blog post discussing the heroism of Wesley Autrey who saved a man having a fit who had fallen onto train tracks in Harlem, USA. Bob also admires the true story told in the latest Will Smith flick “The Pursuit of Happyness“
Bob laments the rise of Global catholocism. I bring up the Warsaw bishop Stanislaw Wielgus who was accused of collaborating with communist secret police. Since we recorded this show, the archbishop has been appointed and denied these allegations.
This leads onto a fairly detailed discussion of the history of catholic involvement, good and bad, during WW2. I also quiz Bob on the practical use of closed prayerful or slient orders of nuns and the role of brothers as opposed to priests.
Among the discussion of recent current affairs Bob and I also debate the allocation of funding for abortion counselling to the Catholic organisation Centacare.
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January 11th, 2007 at 7:06 am
Your Grace
You continue to disparage “Dicky” Dawkins but I am yet to hear your actual complaint with his premise that religion and superstition is irrational.
Regards
Cameron
January 11th, 2007 at 9:27 am
cameron, and will continue to do so,with respect and a wry smile, as we anglos have been brought up.But, now I have to throw in some of “Dicky’s” acolytes(sorry global citizens I must sink into the murky depths of ‘locality’…Australia)like David Williamson the playwright, Pamela Bone the journalist/writer and Robyn Riley the journalist who ALL have been bitten by the mad dog they ALL call religion.They want to drive a stake called superstition and irrationality into religion.That won’t kill religion which is ‘other’ than rational but it may entertain the aforementioned exorcists.Respect.BobMaguire.
January 11th, 2007 at 9:57 am
But Bob, why won’t it kill religion? And why shouldn’t religion *be* killed? Surely the 21st century will challenge the human race enough without us having to continue to carry the burden of bronze age superstitions and mythologies. It’s time that Yahweh and Jesus went the way of Poseidon and Zeus, classified as ancient literature and remembered fondly for the wars and horrors committed in their name.
January 12th, 2007 at 11:51 am
cameron, the culture of war and horror comes separately from religion.It comes from the minds and hearts of people.Religion at its best is the practice and ritual of that practice of whatever brings us together for the common good.”religion pure and undefiled is feeding the orphan and widow….”.You and your co-antireligionists have built a straw man out of the debris left when religion pure and undefiled sloughs of the toxic skin of ‘bad’ religion, an expression in ritual and behaviour of bad culture.religion is only able to be the vehicle of the eternal and infinite relational matrix.Respect.BobMaguire.
January 16th, 2007 at 11:59 am
So Cameron I take it that the only thing you - strongly - believe is atheism…
We all need something to believe in, I gather.
January 16th, 2007 at 9:45 pm
Andrew, I don’t “believe” in atheism. It isn’t a belief system. Atheism is the natural conclusion that anyone who investigates the “God Hypothesis” on a purely rational basis must arrive at. There is no evidence to support the God hypothesis and overwhelming evidence to support the laws of physics, chemistry and biology. So in light of these facts, it appears to me that any rational mind must come to the conclusion that there is no such thing as gods.
January 17th, 2007 at 8:41 am
My single reply to your assumption is then we also simply cannot accept wireless internet connection either. We, of course, know how it works, but we cannot see it; I cannot prove it how it ‘touches’ me. Just like I cannot prove how God / High Spiritual Being touches us.