Nuns have more fun

Nuns have more fun. It’s confirmed.


At least American nuns. Sister of Mercy’s Margaret Farley wrote a book called “Just Love” in which masturbation gets the thumbs up.

And that has really caused a storm back in the Vatican. The narrow-minded men of the clergy in the Rome suburb got seriously upset. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) – yes it exists!!! – issued a 5-page statement saying parts of “Just Love” is not “in conformity with the teaching of the Church”. 

There you have it. No love lost between Sister Margaret and the Vatican.

And to make things really worse, Sister Margaret also has favorable views on same-sex marriages (or unions). Now that’s really being over the edge for the guardians of the faith back in the shadow of Rome. An outburst of anger, dismay, blasphemy and other unspoken swearing. 

So the CDF made its comment very clear. “Among the many errors and ambiguities in this book are its positions on masturbation, homosexual acts, homosexual unions, the indissolubility of marriage and the problem of divorce and remarriage”

It feels like Sister Margaret is gonna be expelled from the Christian club soon. Expel the rebel!

The CDF said it wants to warn its flock that “Just Love” is evil! Burn, burn, burn!

The book was already published back in 2006 but it took the Vatican some time to study, learn, examine, comprehend its content and then the CDF had to meet and discuss and gather again and talk some more. It takes time to recover from the (sexual) shock!!

The warriors of the doctrine, aka the CDF, had written to Sister Margaret for some serious explaining. But Sister Margaret – also a Yale University professor – sent a letter back to the Vatican masters rejecting the CDF’s claims. The Sister of love thought that her views, although clashing with some traditional Christian beliefs, nonetheless reflected coherence with “the theological and moral traditions.”. 

That’s the polite alternative to “Shut up and grow up”.

Despite being a Sister of Mercy the Vatican hardheads have no love, nor mercy for Sister Margaret.

The devil must have twisted her brain!

Human behavior can be a sexy affair.

Staying within the parameters of the flesh.

Upheaval in South Africa. A local artist painted a Lenin-esque portrait of President Jacob Zuma…. with his penis hanging out of his pants. And he called it “The Spear”.

The President’s men got seriously outraged. And all his supporters too. Cries of racism (the artist is white). Cries of limits to artistic expression. Cries of attacks on Jacob’s dignity. Cries of cultural blasphemy. The nation’s temperature got seriously into fever mode.

The President’s party took the artist, the art gallery and a newspaper who had the painting on its website to court. The aim was a total ban.

Jacob himself said he was hurt as the painting might have wanted to indicate that he is a womanizer. He said this indeed,…. despite that he has 4 wives (polygamy is legal in South Africa), … despite that he had (unprotected) sex with a friend of the family who was known to be HIV+,….. despite that he has a child with the daughter of one of his best friends. Jacob a womanizer? You gotta be kidding!

One of Jacob’s wife’s said that the artist should have asked permission first to paint the presidential penis. Size matters?

Meanwhile a priest called upon the artist to be stoned to death. It felt like he wanted to take the nation back some centuries. 1 Step forward, 435 back.

Meanwhile two protestors defaced the painting. No more dick to be seen.

Meanwhile the President’s party got nowhere with its court action and thus called its supporters onto the streets to protest this evil art. “What we don’t get in the courts, we will get on the streets”, the President’s party leaders shouted. Strange behavior for a ruling party in a democratic, constitutional state.

Human behavior can be a blast from the past.

The United Nations is often criticized – rightly or wrongly – for being too burocratic, too slow to act, too costly, too dinosauric (yes, a new word invented right here, right now), too out of touch with reality in the 21^st century.

But now the UN has seriously shot itself in the foot. Permanent damage. The UN World Tourism Organization (yes, it exists!) has nominated Robert Mugabe, the dictator from Zimbabwe, as its world ambassador to promote tourism.

Kick that. The anti-democrat, the destroyer of Zimbabwe’s economy, the supporter of political militias, the murderer has now to travel the world to promote tourism. That’s just taking the piss with all what the UN should stand for.

Besides the question of course, why the UN should have a department for world tourism? Some more fat-cat officials doing nothing?

Interestingly is that Mugabe has a travel ban imposed on him by the US and the EU, but as a newly appointed UN ambassador he can now travel anywhere he wants – because travel bans do not apply for UN matters.

It’s just crazy. The lunatic dictator has plunged his nation into the abyss of starvation and political violence, but gets the honor to go and promote worldwide tourism for the UN. Whoever at the UN elected Mugabe to do this needs to serve the global citizens some explanation so we can try to understand this insanity.

Human behavior can be like an escapee from a mental asylum.

Meanwhile. From one butcher to the other.

The onslaught in Syria continues day by day. No slowing down of the body count. The UN peace plan is non-existent and the dictator from Damascus keeps sending his tanks and jets to bomb his people. No remorse. No holding back. The powers that be in Damascus have become dehumanized.

And Russia’s tough-boy Vladimir Putin keeps protecting Damascus by blocking further UN initiatives. The Russian semi-dictator doesn’t like to loose trade ties with Syria and sees any intervention as a possible pandora’s box as Russia itself has many internal trouble zones.  

And so the bloodshed continues and the graveyards getting fuller by the hour.

Human behavior will never learn from the past. Soulless.

Nuns might have more fun but some American preachers clearly don’t.

44 Year old, reborn-preacher Mark Randall Wolford from West Virginia had the strange habit of holding a poisonous snake to prove God was protecting him.

Because the power of God is a serious matter. And Mark’s faith was running deep. And you gotta do something serious to prove your followers (only 25 present in his church that day) that God is here and protecting us day by day. But God must have had a sick day cause the snake went for Mark and Mark is no more. He is knocking on heaven’s door. And I guess he will ask God for some serious explanation.

But Mark must have had a really bad memory. Because back in 1983 Mark’s father, also a preacher, used the same trick to try to try to prove the same thing,…. and with the same consequences. God clearly doesn’t like that preaching family.

Throw Out. Chicago’s Flatfoot 56 have just released the single “I believe it” from their upcoming, 4^th studio album “Toil”. And the new, 13 track album sounds promising as the new single still shows of the qualities of these Celtic punk lads. “Toil” is produced by Street Dogs’ Johnny Rioux, who was also at the helm of Flatfoot 56’s 2010 release “Black Thorn”.

C-Ya

Collateral – June 2012