“We live in a disenchanted society, a secularised world that thought it was being emancipated, but where religion is being thrown out, the window is being opened to superstition and irrationality,” said Mr Ferrari
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Religion, especially the fundie variant, can kind of be superstitious and irrational.
Certain religions are more liberal than others.
where religion is being thrown out, the window is being opened to superstition and irrationality
This gets my vote for Most Backward Statement of the Year.
Doing reconnaissance, this is Giuseppe Ferrari, a priest (I think) who's seeking to establish about 200 new exorcists to interdict what he sees as growing willingness to dabble in diabolic arts. That Pope Francis recently referred to the Devil having a hand in early martyrdoms probably didn't help temper Ferrari.
Unlike his namesake, this guy brain is more like a Yugo.
Fr. Yugo...or Fr. Pinto - Kick him in the butt & he explodes!
Y'know there's a car called a Fiat.
And Zoroaster's Deity has a vehicle named after him, too!
Next up, Sister Mary Mercedes!
"Most Backward Statement of the Year"
Backward statement - tnemetats?
So this is a candidate for the "statement" that to the greatest degree is actually a "tnemetats."
It wasn't being emancipated, it emancipated itself, actively.
Plus, religion seems to be coming back, with a vengeance, at least in Europe. Women's rights are being restricted more and more, and conservative forces bully people to conform to the old "Us and Them" philosophy of the 1930's. A bit scary, actually...
(Broton of Loch Ness)
Different man, fortunately. If Skyknight is correct (see above), this guy would be more properly addressed as Father Ferrari.
Yes, double-plus good double-talk.
Your religion is loosing power because people are growing out of it.
You are in the first stage of coping with this:
Denial.
Then maybe, one day, you'll reach acceptance and fully admit that you could never really believe the bullshit lies of religion.
While I'll agree that people are going more toward new age and other superstitious bullshit, religion is the ultimate superstitious bullshit. You pray to the ceiling using a certain set of songs and magic chants hoping it will change something specific in your life. Rituals are critical for a superstition to exist.
"but where religion is being thrown out, the window is being opened to superstition and irrationality"
Oh yes. Instead of Darwinius massilae, Ardipithecus, and Richard Lenski's E-coli experiments proving Evolution, discovery of the Higgs-Boson via Large Hadron Collider, and those behind the Big Bang (now non -)theory all but awarded that Nobel Prize 'enslaving' us with it's nasty facts , we can be free with just 'Godidit'.
Then why are you using that enslaving yoke of the World Wide Web, invented by Sir Tim Berners-Lee at CERN, home of the Large Hadron Collider, o Mr. Ferrari?
Yes! Be freed by the Bible. Because it does all that nasty thinking for you! Unfortunately, unlike the Bizarro World you live in, Planet Reality doesn't work that way, Mr. Trabant-brain. [/"Achtung Baby"] X3
@SpukiKitty
With your energy & inventiveness, I'd equate you with the Bugatti Veyron, the fastest car on the planet (269 MPH on it's 2nd run in 2010 ). b^_^d
"where religion is being thrown out, the window is being opened to superstition and irrationality"
SUPERSTITION
Standardspeak: Believing in unproven, supernatural claims about life, the universe and everything. Such as "certain numbers are lucky/unlucky" or "mental illness is demon possession, because demons DO exist!"
Fundiespeak: Believing that there is no God.
I never like Ferraris; just not sexy. Give me a vintage Porsche any day, or even a muscle car. I'd drive the General Lee before I'd ever drive a Ferrari.
This Ferrari however, is just plain stupid.
(The Crimson Ghost)
Hey, now. Nothing wrong with a Dodge Charger.
I think he inadvertently hit the nail on the head.
The answer, of course, isn't to bring back religion, it's to throw out the rest of the crap.
@ Breakerslion-that is a pretty foxy piece of car; reminds me of an old Jag. Only problem is that they look good but they're utter crap under the hood.
@ RatBastid-the 2 things I don't really like about the General Lee is the color & its associations with redneckery.
Someone in my town has an orange charger done up like the General; plays Dixie & everything. I preferred the guy in my old apartment complex that drove that blue 68 Ford Mustang; 'twas truly a drool-worthy car. I feel so bland in my VW.
In a secular society, irrational people start believing in equally silly things, like homeopathy. On the plus side, those people tend to start believing in a very diverse amount of nonsense, which means the individual beliefs don't get the traction and veneration that religions get. Of course, this does not mean that an irrational belief held by many is superior to an irrational belief held by few.
I don't believe in sky beasts. I'm so superstitious. I don't belong to any tribe, lest it be the broad swathe of humanity, and I'm not brainwashed by a cult. How irrational of me.
Or:-
Mr Ferrari's a fucking berk.
Out of context, this honestly wouldn't sound particularly fundamentalist. In some countries, abandoning traditional religion hasn't meant an abandonment of supernaturalism, but a switch to new age belief or acceptance of pseudoscientific ideas (ESP, transcendental meditation, etc.).
That said, going far left wing doesn't mean that you invite demons...
@Anon-e-moose
*VROOOOOOMMM!*
Ever heard Bill Cosby's old "200 MPH" routine? It's from the sixties. Funniest thing ever!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-JQksYxgM0
@dionysus
You'll be surprised to know that I don't believe in God, either. I don't believe in super-beings living in the sky. I'm a spiritual pantheist. Deity doesn't exist as a big guy in the sky who made everything. Deity IS everything & Deities are archetypes & metaphors. My belief in the spiritual/paranormal/magical is kept in a framework of scientific plausibility. The Material/Physical, Astral/Mental & Spiritual/Causal are simply interconnected wavelengths of existence.
Please do not equate me with Father Exploding Pinto-butt, here.
@ The Crimson Ghost
The Jag, certainly. the Ferrari was more like a 3/4 scale Vette that could take a curve. Not crap under the hood, but the breaker points would set you back $150, and they were a dual set - and that's 1969 dollars.
@ SpukiKitty:
"... The fire extinguisher ... EMPTIED itself!" From memory.
Edit: re. breaker points: Each!
@breakerslion
And the routine ends....
"...Here are the keys...it's paid for...take this car & give it to George Wallace!"
Greatest "Take That" ever!
TRIVIA: That very same car was later sold to a guy in California and he accidentally drove it off a cliff. Both he & the car were "totaled".
This a Shelby car managed to simultaneously be both an "Epic Win" & "Epic Fail" at the same time. Dang thing killed a guy!
religion is being thrown out, the window is being opened to superstition and irrationality
That's like saying "wood is being thrown out, the window is being opened to oak and maple."
@SpukiKitty
"*VROOOOOOMMM!*"
...and yet despite the 1,125 BHP quad-turbo'd W16 warp drive in the back of the beast, those in the motoring press/media who have driven the Bugatti Veyron have said it is the most civilised car they've ever driven.
'*VROOOOOOMMM!*', eh? Now why does Pinkie Pie as her superpone'd self 'Filli-Second' spring to mind...?! X3
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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