💛 Today 💛 October 2022 God's Mum

God's Mum: It's not that funny, dear. Hysterical mirth just because it...

God: Holy Oil ... Holy Oil ... It is sooo funny ... So funny ...

God's Mum: Now calm down, dear.

God: Agggh! I can't see for the tears in my eyes. It's so hard to believe, it's ... Ooooh ...

God's Mum: There, now you've fallen off your chair laughing.

https://www.librarything.com/topic/343881#7942452

God's Mum: Are you sure you didn't create this wonderful evolution cartoon yourself and palm it off onto that brilliant cartoonist Don Addis, dear? It certainly has your style, dear:



God: Ooooh! "The Progress of Man". I wish I'd thought of it first...

God's Mum: She'll tell you bible stories that you've never heard before, on LibraryThing.
Each month is clearly shown and you can start anywhere you like. The aim is to bring you, precious reader, one new God's Mum fix every day, stolen from her blog.

For ease of reading, a new topic starts on the 1st of each month. To-date on LT we have:

1. In the beginning Nov 2021 .. . . Here
   
2. And then .. .. .. Dec 2021 .. .. .. Here
   
3. New year .. .. .. Jan 2022 .. .. .. Here
   
4. After that .. .. .. Feb 2022 .. .. .. Here
   
5. March on .. .. .. Mar 2022 .. .. .. Here
   
6. April time .. .. . April 2022 .. .. . Here
   
7. May Happy .. .. May 2022 .. .. .. Here
   
8. June boon .. .. .June 2022 .. .. .. Here
   
9. July Play .. .. .. July 2022 .. .. .. Here
   
10. August All .. .. August 2022 .. .. Here
    
11. Sept' Song .. .. Sept' 2022 . .. .. Here
    
12. Octo Okay .. .. Octo' 2022 .. .. .. Here

    God's Mum: "Religion poisons everything."
    
    Christopher Hitchens

God's Mum: The Vatican problem with Cardinal O'Mally has been running for some time, dear. It started in the great snowstorms of last winter, dear.

God: That was a dreadful winter, did that affect the Pope and his assistant, Cardinal O'Mally?

God's Mum: The Pope claims the snow in St Peter's Square was four feet deep, dear. The temperature fell below freezing and O'Mally was obviously depressed by it all, dear. He was standing staring though the balcony windows for hours, dear.

God: Poor man. Did he receive medical treatment?

God's Mum: Only after the Pope unlocked the doors and let him back in, dear.

https://www.librarything.com/topic/343881#7935439

God's Mum: According to the Earthling's bible, dear, Saint Peter was the first one to wear a mitre, dear.

God: Oh! really? There always seems to be something strange about people who love really big hats. St Peter looked so stupid in his, it is not surprising that * The God Industry * just could not wait to follow.

God's Mum: Rumour has it that the pope wears his in bed, dear.

God: Yes, I can well believe it. Do you think he has golden pyjamas to match?

God's Mum: That may be going a bit too far, dear. He probably has a tartan mitre to match his pyjamas, dear.

😎 Laughter is the best medicine.😎

"You sent for me, Captain Noah, sir." (Smart salute)

"Yes, wife, I have prayed and prayed to Our Lord and asked what to do about the rain swelling our rudder on the ark. It has swollen until we cannot use it. The Lord said to anoint it with Holy Oil."

"Glory, Glory! Word from above, divine help at last. Where is it stored, Captain Noah, Sir?

"I don't know, you did all the packing."

"Holy Oil? Never heard of it, Captain Noah, Sir."

https://www.librarything.com/topic/341494#7834638

God's Mum: Coffee and Angel cake for you, dear. I am reading in the paper that The Vatican is selling off the Pope-mobile, dear. They claim it is a one-owner, low mileage vehicle, dear.

God: Thanks for the snack. I would not think that there would be too many popes throughout the world who will be bidding to buy themselves a pope-mobile.

God's Mum: Putin can probably picture himself parading around Moscow in it, waiving and flashing his Mongol smile, dear. How can it be sold as "one owner"? It has been owned by lots of popes, dear.

God: Are you really expecting honesty and clarity from religious Earthling leaders within * The God Industry * ? You can be fairly sure that it has been maintained using Duckham's WD40 20w50 Holy Oil though...

God's Mum: Did you read these headlines in the Newspapers, dear? ~ ‘Profound shame’: Church of England review uncovers 400 new cases of abuse.
Inquiry examines records going back to the 1940s and finds culture of deference, victim-blaming and misogyny.
interior english church from pulpit
Harriet Sherwood

God: It says, "The Church of England has suffered from a culture of deference, inertia, misogyny, protectionism and victim-blaming, a three-year internal review of abuse cases has found.

Almost 400 new cases involving actions by clergy, officials and volunteers against children and vulnerable adults were uncovered in the most extensive review of personnel records ever undertaken.

In a foreword to the review team’s 129-page report, published on Wednesday, the archbishops of Canterbury and York wrote (Here we go !!) of the “great sadness and profound shame that we, again and again, come face-to-face with the brokenness and failings of our church”.

God's Mum: The review led to 26 national recommendations, including the establishment of a victims’ charter to enable children to be “truly ‘heard’ when they are expressing distress or communicating that something is wrong”.

Welby said the review of the C of E’s handling of allegations of abuse by Smyth would be published in full.
Archbishop of Canterbury apologises to abused participants in Christian camps
Read more: ~
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/05/c-of-e-review-uncovers-400-new-cas....

NOTE: Brackets added.

😎 Laughter is the best medicine.😎

And it came to pass: ~ In The Vatican, with Cardinal O'Malley recently:~

The Pope: We see that The Good Lord has blessed the UK with a new monarch.

Cardinal O'Malley: Oh yes, oh yes. 'Tis a wonderful thing that their new Queen is a man, your blessing ness ness. I see at his coronation he is to be anointed with Holy Oil to help him slip into his new job, your brightest ness.

Pope: I'm sure our Heavenly Father will approve.

Cardinal O'Malley: We must all pray that the new oily monarch doesn't slip out of the new throne and onto the holy floor, your glowing ness ness.

👩🏿‍🦰 👩 Roxanne is an average pupil in an average school. 👩‍🦰 👩🏿‍🦰

She feels she can get all the religious instruction she desires from her parents, the public library, the internet or even the boring local church if she chooses. Her class do not intend to have someone else's guesswork rammed down their throats against their will at school:

Teacher: Today I want to talk about following the teachings of The Holy Bible.

Roxanne: May I just say, I decided to take your advice and visit my local church to find if there was anything I could find in god's message that I was missing.

Teacher: I am so glad that you made that decision, well done. How did you get on?

Roxanne: Somebody stole my purse... ..

https://www.librarything.com/topic/343881#7941844
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🌼 Words of Wisdom you won't hear in church.🌼

Church of England’s handling of abuse claims hampered by “culture of deference”

A "culture of deference" contributed to the mishandling of Church of England abuse claims, a review has found.

The review aimed to identify institutional failings in safeguarding and handling of abuse allegations.

It was found that the Church of England suffered a "culture of deference" towards bishops and other senior members and a "longstanding ethos where individuals felt unable to challenge back over safeguarding concerns".

https://www.secularism.org.uk/news/2022/10/cofes-handling-of-abuse-claims-hamper...

God's Mum: Here are some "Words of Wisdom you won't hear in church", dear:

In 1857 Archbishop Ussher and Dr John Lightfoot of Cambridge University by a series of “mystical calculations” fixed the actual date of the creation of the world. It was at 9 a.m. on Sunday 23 October in 4004 B.C.

God: It is hard to believe this extraordinary pronouncement was printed with all authority in most new copies of the bible that were in circulation at the time.

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God's Mum: Worldwide news of the money The God Industry is costing the Earthlings, dear:

https://www.crikey.com.au/2022/10/11/sweet-charity-religion-tax-australian-catho...

Investigations / Religion
God’s business: how the big religions scripted a massive tax handout

God: Organisations like the Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference, a registered basic religious charity, are largely free from accountability. It adds up to a near total immunity from accountability.

God's Mum: Successive Coalition governments have refused to abolish the special arrangement and the secrecy has remained intact, dear, despite evidence from the McClelland royal commission into child sex abuse that found that lack of transparency in church-run organisations was fundamental to their poor culture, dear.

God: The Pell carve-out. The special deal for religious charities is a political scandal that flew under the radar for the life of the Coalition government. It came about principally through the lobbying of the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney, then under the control of Cardinal George Pell.* Crikey understands that Pell’s powerful consigliere, Danny Casey, led the one-to-one lobbying effort in Canberra.

God's Mum: The church is exceptionally good at persuading politicians to its view. In 2012 it was ruthlessly effective, dear. Now the whole thing has got out of hand, dear.

* See: "Come home Cardinal Pell".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Minchin

💙God's Mum: Book Choice of the Month. ~ October 2022💙

https://www.librarything.com/work/314459/reviews

Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paine.
by Thomas Paine.

An excellent book. The foundations of the American political structure and two hundred years later a call to come back to basics. A call to expose how America is edging closer to ALL things that it set out NOT to be. More than a voice of the past but a herald, like a prophet in the desert, saying "You have strayed away from something that was so clearly laid out for you, Come back." Come back NOT to a system of the wealthiest man or woman dominates the poor but one where ALL MEN AND WOMEN are equal in the eyes of the law and are allowed to seek out what it is that makes them happy and prosperous.

Come back not to a time where one set of religious moralities dominates outside of said religious institutions but one where one is FREE to practice their own religion WITHOUT fear that another religious code would be made law

Come back to a time where Kings, Queens, Generals, members of a Aristocracy or Corporation did not and could not Rule over the lives of the common man and give cause and make law for doing so.

When you read through you might think as I did, "Things of 200 years ago are still going on today. Have we made any progress? Yes some here, some there, but when it comes to the basics: If we knew what we were trying to get away from, trying to avoid. Why then is it still here?"

💙💙💙💙💙 (Five stars) flaga1abwriter, LibraryThing.

Words of Wisdom you won't hear in Church.

Why is an abuser still working as a priest?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-60325191

"Italy is like another planet far from Europe," he says. "There's a clear lack of will by the state to interfere with the Church, at the expense of children."

Part of the problem here is cultural. Italy is often more conservative on some social issues compared with other western European countries. In a country in which more than 80% of people identify as Catholic, the Church is, for many Italians, as central to their identity as the family - and can often seem an unchallengeable authority.

😎 Laughter is the best medicine.😎

Put it this way: ~ When the Pope starts looking young ~ it's a sign you're getting old.

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God's Mum: Here's a lovely cartoon with The Pilgrim Fathers from The Mayflower in 1620, dear.

God: Very recent for us but history to US Earthlings. I just love the Hazardous Religious Beliefs bit.

https://www.secularism.org.uk/news/2022/10/nss-calls-for-parliamentary-committee...

God's Mum: UK government "shows contempt" for human rights, dear. ~ Laws in England and Wales require that children at all state schools "shall on each school day take part in an act of collective worship", dear.

God: Although schools with a religious character must conduct such worship in accordance with the practices of the school's designated faith, in schools without a religious character the law still requires that worship must be "wholly or mainly of a Christian character".

God's Mum: The government has previously described the law as "flexible and inclusive, allowing all schools to tailor their provision to suit pupils' needs", because schools may apply to hold collective worship reflecting other religious traditions, dear.

God: But that claim is clearly not true. The government's claim is undermined by the case of Poulner Infant School, which recently had its request to be exempt from collective worship laws denied.

God's Mum: The school had argued the requirement for collective worship to be of a Christian character was inappropriate on the grounds that two thirds of parents do not identify as Christian, dear. Parents of no religion are the largest single group, and many parents purposefully seek out the school as an alternative to nearby faith school, dear.

God: "The continuation of a policy requiring collective worship shows contempt for human rights and freedom of religion and belief. The time is long overdue for these laws to be scrapped", the NSS said.

https://www.secularism.org.uk/news/2022/10/nss-calls-for-parliamentary-committee...

😎 Laughter is the best medicine. 😎

And it came to pass: ~ In The Vatican, with Cardinal O'Malley recently:~

Pope: It seems to me that you are stretching this Holy Oil thing a bit too far, Cardinal.

Cardinal O'Malley: I tink the word you's searching for is "viscosity", your most holy slipperyness ness ness.

https://www.librarything.com/topic/344783#7949731

God's Mum: Church of England guidance which aims to promote an 'inclusive' form of collective worship in schools misses the point and highlights the need to stop imposing religion on children, dear.

God: The Church of England, which is bizarrely still a state church in the only democracy in the world to mandate Christian worship in schools, has released new guidance for making directed worship "Inclusive", Invitational" and "Inspiring" (sic).

God's Mum: This comes amid significant questions over whether the requirement to hold collective worship is compliant with human rights, and legislative efforts to remove it, dear. Meanwhile the government recently made the absurd suggestion that it would enforce the requirement, dear.

God: The C of E's track record of trying to treat schools as Christian religious communities is well documented. As with many other social issues, the C of E is twisting itself in knots over collective worship.
https://www.secularism.org.uk/opinion/2021/05/mandated-worship-can-never-be-incl....

God's Mum: There is a lot of talk in the press about blasphemy laws this week, dear.

God: There is no such thing as Blasphemy. It positively does not exist.

God's Mum: This report states: "Blasphemy laws are incompatible with fundamental human rights such as freedom of expression and freedom of religion or belief." dear.

God: Rhetoric from government and parliamentarians should reflect the fact that blasphemy does not exist and not lend legitimacy to the concept of blasphemy by employing terms such as 'misuse', or by offering proposals for how such laws might be properly administered.

https://www.secularism.org.uk/news/2022/10/mp-calls-for-review-of-government-sta...

I don't make this stuff up.

Every conversation posted here in October "God's Mum" is a genuine overheard snippet passed on to me by Holy Walter the bisexual holy angel who cleans God's Mum's and The Vatican's windows.

Sworn on Cardinal Pell's Holy Bible. Oct 2018.
See: "Come home Cardinal Pell".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Minchin

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NOTE: Framing arguments in religious terms is unlikely to resonate widely, as it's a language few people speak.

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God's Mum: I don't know if you read this in the Earthling's press, dear. It will certainly give you a good laugh with your breakfast this morning, dear:

https://www.librarything.com/topic/342715#7895797

"On July 24 another miracle showing us that the Holy Eucharist is the Body, Blood, and Divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ. In Mexico a true holy man from Argentina was officiating in the exposition of the Host, when the host started beating like a human heart. Fr Carlos Spahn a founder of a religious order and quite famous in Spanish So, America and Mexico, also was venerating a glass framed picture of blessed Carlo Acutis from which holy oil is reported to have oozed while the Host was beating..... Fr Spahn wisely took some of the parishoners cell phones and these videos are "all over the internet"....JMJ...."

God: Just let me check with you again; these are the people who pray daily to come here and share eternal life .. .. .. with us? ...

📜📜ChurchSpeak 📜ChurchSpeak 📜ChurchSpeak📜📜

Every month God's Mum features an item of ChurchSpeak. These are unedited passages from church leaders in such obscure church language that they are unintelligible to mere humans. A clear demonstration that * The God Industry * is unable to communicate in the real world.

Pope Francis Cautions against "arbitrary and ideological adaptations" to Church Ministries (ACI Africa)

Pope Francis warned against letting ideology influence the Church’s ordained and lay ministries, and said he plans to initiate a dialogue* with bishops on the topic... for the 50th anniversary of Saint Pope Paul VI’s motu proprio Ministeria quaedam, which updated norms for lectors and acolytes following the Second Vatican Council... Pope Francis said, “every ministry is a call from God for the good of the community.” The common good and the building up of community are the two foundations enabling “the Christian community to organize the variety of ministries that the Spirit prompts in relation to the concrete situation it experiences,” he said. The organization of ministries, he continued, should not be merely functional but should be carried out in “community discernment” and in listening to the Holy Spirit. He said: “Any ministerial structure that emerges from this discernment is dynamic, lively, and flexible like the action of the Spirit: it must be rooted in it ever more deeply lest dynamism become confusion, liveliness be reduced to extemporaneous improvisation, and flexibility be transformed into arbitrary and ideological adaptations”.

* "to initiate a dialogue" with you ~ Here is another load of religious bullshit...

🌼 Words of Wisdom you won't hear in church.🌼

Put it this way: ~ Christianity is a system carefully constructed to deceive itself.

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😎 Laughter is the best medicine. 😎

And it came to pass: ~ In The Vatican, with Cardinal O'Malley recently:~

The Pope: What was all that fuss today? I saw you and two of God's Holy Angels outside the Vatican Chapel.

Cardinal O'Malley: It was awful Father, sorry, I mean your Graceful Whatsit. The Chapel was locked but a naked man broke in and ran amok. Security had to be called, your lovelyness.

Pope: So are you going to tell me what happened or just stand there wringing your hands?

Cardinal O'Malley: He evaded security for a long time but eventually they grabbed him by the organ, your Holy, Holy, ness, ness

https://www.librarything.com/topic/343881#7935439.

God's Mum: Lots of fuss about this cartoon, dear. It seems it is a caricature of a well-known Bishop, who is not very pleased about it, dear. It was picked up on the 'net and posted again and again, dear.

God: It captures several Bishops I could name, excellent work and it certainly makes me and many more laugh.

God's Mum: We are coming to the end of our one year run on LibraryThing in a few days, dear. We need to say goodbye to all our friends here, dear. We must keep laughing at the Earthling's Sincere Religious Beliefs and make notes, in case we pass this way again in the near future, dear.

God's Mum: The Vatican Publishing House published a document on Friday entitled Theological Ethics of Life, Scripture, tradition, practical challenges, dear.
Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, President of the Pontifical Academy for Life and editor of the book, sat down with Vatican Media to discuss the text, dear.

Q: Archbishop Paglia, the book is very long and dense (sic) *. How did this project come about?

The initiative takes its cue from the many solicitations Pope Francis is making to theologians in his speeches and documents. We hear people say that the Holy Father is not interested in theology, but if we pay closer attention to what he is really saying, it does not really seem to be the case. So, we asked ourselves, are we really listening to the teaching of Pope Francis? Are we taking his words seriously in a systematic way, and not just using some of his singular expressions outside the context of his overall reflection? Are we examining the implications that his considerations have for theological thought? If we consider Evangelii gaudium, Laudato si', Amoris laetitia, and Veritatis Gaudium in this perspective, we realize that the proposals contained therein open up a new horizon for theology and for the task of theologians, with a strong emphasis on dialogue and the mutual enrichment between different types of knowledge.

God: Why should that be of the remotest interest to anyone of intelligence in 2022?

* It appears the editors have ignored the meaning most of the world applies to the word "dense". It is, however, a very apt description of the writers of the original article.

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😎 Laughter is the best medicine.😎

And it came to pass: ~ In The Vatican, with Cardinal O'Malley recently:~

The Pope: I am feeling a bit sleepy so I do not want to be disturbed for a while.

Cardinal O'Malley: Off you go then your holy, holy sleepyness, ness, ness.

Pope: One of the advantages of my Holy position and my advanced age is that Our Heavenly Father knows that I only need 4 hours sleep.

Cardinal O'Malley: Fortunately, your wonderfulness, The Holy Father also knows you need 4 hours sleep 4 times a day.

https://www.librarything.com/topic/343881#7935439.

God's Mum: So amusing to see the church turning itself in circles over same sex marriage, dear.

God: The most laughable thing about religion is that they do not intend it to be humorously entertaining. That's what makes it so funny.

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Thank you all so much for being with God's Mum for one whole year. (365 posts). 365 was the max' the blog would allow us to steal and therefore we must now move on.

It's been a lot of fun and thank you for your messages and company along the way. God's Mum hopes we meet again.