H2G2 Predictions: In A Puff of Logic

[nfotxn]

I predict that The Hitch Hikers Guide To the Galaxy movie with omit the sequence of the Guide where the babelfish disproves the existence of god through the sheer coincidence of it's creation. This is because the political climate around religion right now is so harsh and retarded. Although I hope it's included because it's funny and smart. Those titbits in the series really opened my mind as a kid reading it.

Which brings me to point two: The Pope. I was hoping to keep this journal a Catholicism Free Zone but it's a tad unavoidable not providing commentary on what has become such a widespread banal affair.

I think it's worth pointing out that the church, historically, has less say in the world than it ever has before. And the massive coverage of these old, opulent spiritual ruling class members rings a little false. Mostly it's that as a kid I never bought the concept that any one person is any closer to God than anybody else. Then again Catholicism doesn't even practice sexual equality, amongst other discriminatory omissions in the faith.

It's too easy to point to a Neo-Conservative Christian Conspiracy. But really it's the people who are sucking this shit up. As a culture continually that grows affluent and philosophically ignorant the copious spiritual class divisions of Big Faith Business like Catholicism and Evangelism fits the lifestyle.

For these reasons, and others, I hope to live ignorant of Catholicism for some time to come. It's with neglect that these decrepit institutions will become just as impotent as their figureheads.

Comments

[sunsmogseahorse.livejournal.com]

I dunno. While plenty of people seem to be sucking this shit up with a straw (I just grossed myself out) most are not. You should know that numbers are on your side.

[nfotxn.livejournal.com]

I'd like to agree but to be honest I don't know for sure. If anything I feel the need to be a bit cagey about the culturally digressed. Every time I make an assumption that we rationally thinking, philosophical and empirical types are still forging forward shit like the US Federal Elections happen.

[birddog.livejournal.com]

"I think it's worth pointing out that the church, historically, has less say in the world than it ever has before."

Have you visited America recently?

[darke.livejournal.com]

The same america where 3/4 of american catholics ignore the Pope's preaching to make up their own minds on important issues according to a recent survey?

One doesn't have to look very far to see it either. Parents ignoring church teachings to tell their kids to use condoms if they engage in pre-marital sex, for example, because to do otherwise is sheer stupidity. And that's just one example of how out of touch with the modern world The Church has become.

The Pope, in our sector of the world at least, is someone to wave banners at and cheer at, nothing more. A tired figurehead representing days gone by.

[mondragon.livejournal.com]

The thing about american catholics that the surveys gloss over is that while 3/4 of them ignore the Pope's preaching to make up their minds on important issues, the definition of "important issues" is "those teachings that prevent *me* from doing what *I* want". They seem to be just fine with following the church's teaching about things that restrict others - as in voting against equal rights for gay people.

Fer Gawds Sake!

[plaidninja.livejournal.com]

Dude watch what you're saying. You don't want to get those Catholics mad.

(They eat their God!)

Who knows what they're capable of?!

They eat their God!

[shawnsyms.livejournal.com]

OMG!!!!7!

*belch*

[satarnion.livejournal.com]

This puff was actually the idea behind my undergraduate thesis. What I came out of that writing process worrying about, however, was the way in which our modern ethical framework has been handed off to these institutions and how it will likely suffer with those organizations under the weight of secularism.

It's not so much that we are all so over religion as it is we just can't buy it anymore. We all still want meaning; where do we get that when God is dead? I'm worried that the death of one organization (based, although now so dimly, on compassion and love) only heralds the birth of a new and less caring one that imbues meaning, not through religious tenet, but by keeping its flock continuously distracted with the new and improved.

[chucknoblet.livejournal.com]

Those titbits in the series really opened my mind as a kid reading it.

OMG! I'd better steal it from all the local middle/high school libraries. We don't want kids thinking!