Today's Topics:
exsqueeze me?
priesthating - an agenda for the nineties
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From: "Eric A. Haines" <erich@eye.com>
Message-Id: <9209091300.AA11003@hemlock>
Subject: exsqueeze me?
To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 9:00:27 EDT
>Excerpts from assocs.abortion-discussion: 7-Sep-92 latest on the Rapture
>Eric Haines@eye.com (857)
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>> Yes, it's fall, when leaves turn variegated hues, there's a bracing little nip
>> in the air, and men's minds turn to thoughts of when Antichrist will
>> walk the earth. Recently someone went by on our street and put under
>> each windshield a happy little pamphlet about the Rapture.
>
>What the hell is this post doing on this board?
>
>Go start a new vein on cmu.misc.opinion.
>
>++David
Those wacky CMU boys, forwarding the Subgenius digest to their local
assocs.abortion-discussion group! And then they ensured that replies to their
post go to the Subgenius mailing list! Confusion and righteousness ensue
during this madcap episode; a laff riot that's not to be missed.
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From: phy6jem@sun.leeds.ac.uk
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 14:22:03 BST
Message-Id: <1057.9209091322@sun021.sun.leeds.ac.uk>
To: subgenius <subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu>
Subject: priesthating - an agenda for the nineties
Article from Fatuous Times no 2 "special liberate mickey mouse issue"
pound 1.50, Institute of Fatuous Research, PObox406, Stoke-on-Trent,
ST1 4RN, England.
Priesthating - an agenda for the nineties (by Mr Social Control)
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Ettore Gagliano, 83, known as "The Priest Basher" of Milan, Italy
who has been charged 58 times with assaults upon clerics and church
personnel. his latest target was a Greek Orthodox priest who had
gone to the cathedral for morning prayers when Gagliano leaped out
from behind a pillar and hit him. Upon being arrested, he told
police, "I don't like priests. When I see one I just have to give
him a punch in the ear."
Gagliano is always acquitted because of his advanced years, but
still manages to assault a priest every month on average. He is
a great-grandfather whose offspring are said to adore him and are
proud of his reputation.
At his last court appearance, Gagliano told the magistrates,
"There is nothing you can do to save priests from me. I shall
bash them all until my last breath. I hate them all."
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The percentage of socialworkers who are active Christians has been
estimated as much more that 30% and is rising. This infiltration has
enabled Christians to set agendas for the profession and to have
direct power over the lives of thousands of families. A particular
effect is the creation of the satanic abuse controversy.
To the Christian mind, evil is extraordinary and so comes from
outside the nuclear family. Worshipping Satan and abusing children
therefore acquire a logical link. To the non-Christian mind, evil
is as banal as family life itself and so sexual exploitation is emblematic
of the choking conformity that pervades all families. Allegations of
satanic abuse therefore appear to be preposterous fabrications,
effectively obscuring the reality of widespread incest.
In Orkney, once the alleged victims had been shown to have been
'coached' (by Christian social workers) into relating stories of foetal
sacrifices by cowled figures etc. they were returned to their families.
Once satanism was disproved, abuse was forgotten and the original
case-files were mysteriously lost in a 'wicker-man' style conspiracy
apparently involving local clergy.
The whole episode demonstrates the persistent ability of an ancient
religion to use new structures, like social work and the media, to
further its ideology of Father power. Such a feat would be impossible
without a diffuse acceptance of Christianity outside the specifically
Christian sub-cultures. That the anti-abortion lobby has the influence
it does is testament to the same diffuse acceptance.
It is for this reason that amused tolerance is an inappropriate
response to the Christian propagandists, be they liberal churchmen
or 'wild-eyed' outreach workers. Both are the coppers of the soul and
like coppers they are as despicable when they are 'hard' as when they
are 'soft'. In an age when vicars can openly associate themselves
with the issue of homelessness, despite God having an empty home in
every village in the land, we need anti-clericalism more than ever.
What we need is Priesthating in the glorious tradition of Blake
and Shelley, of the Ranters and Diggers, of 19th century anarchists,
1920s surrealists and 1980's heavy metal album covers. The fact that
we have a government so right-wing as to make the Jealous God look
like a Guardian-reading softie is all the more reason to be clear
about what we are for and what we are against.
We need also to be clear that Priesthating without Godhating leads
only to less superstition forms of repression, witness Luther, Christ
or the Ustasi. We need to realise that misogynistic nun-hating is
not the same as Priesthating at all. Many nuns are extremely cool
and deride their feeble priests as much as we do. Finally, we need to
know in our hearts that ridicule and hatred alone will not do and, if
the theme-parking of our cities has no other advantages, it will at
least provide us with plenty of heritage lamp-posts from which the
lying, snivelling apologists for the rapist Fuhrer of heaven and hell,
will gurgle their last sermons.
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