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Tuesday, May 22nd 2012


Crocnodile Shoes

Satan is my co-pilot.

The evil usurper anti-Pope Bendedict is being in Spain for the last couple of days, as if our poor beknighted country is not having enough to worry about. Yesterday he was in Santiago de Compostela, where he was give out about the “aggressive anti-clericalism” which is holding Spain in its sway, just like when it was the 1930s, when the peoples were shooting priests and disinterring the corpses of nuns from their coffins and dancing with them in the streets to show that they was not incorrupted. In also Bednedict was criticise the modern-day fashion for modernity, saying that, “Once again there is a clash of civilizations, between those who base their faith in science and so-call “facts” demonstrate by “evidence” of the senses, logic, and the discredited inductive-empirical method, and those who obey God who created the universe and knows better than everyone.” In Spain, as you may already know, the atheist communist liberal government has put a stop to obligatory religious education in state schools and have also legalise the abortion on demand, just to annoy men, especially men like priests, who do not have sex with women. This is the sort of discredited modern world we live in.

Today, the Usurper Bendedict is going to Barcelona, the capital of the Catalan province of Spain, where he is espect to make a saint out of Antoni Gaudí, the man who couldn’t finish building the Sagrada Família.

Is STILL not finish. But what are you espect if you use lazy fucking Catalans.

In Barcelona he is also going to condemn the abortings and the euthanasia, which is when you kill old people because Nature won’t. This, says the Usurper pope, is taking God’s pleasure into our own hands. Only God is allowed to kill people. Or a theological state acting in God’s name - not Iran, though. The real God.

All of this pontificating would be all well and good, if it was not coming from the mouth of the discredited anti-Pope whose words fall like Onan’s seed onto barren stone (unless you have carpet in your bathroom). Similarly, his crocnodile tears for a victimized church fall like dead leaves onto a soiled handkerchief. A soiled black handkerchief. With a hole in. Because it is NOT true that the people of Spain has turn its back on the One True Religion. No. They are just as spiritual and pious and devout as they always was, even when they were just pretending in order to get their children into the good schools. If the Usurper Bendedict thinks he perceives anti-church feeling, he should look to himself and his surrounding cronies and ne’er-do-wells. For it is THEY on whom the people of Spain has turned its backs to. It is the Usurper Bendedict who have brought the Catholic Church into disrepute, with his usurping and fake piety and skin-deep fascism (remember that he was only CONSCRIPTED into the Hitler Youth), none of which speak well of his character. This is why I am calling his lamentations only crocnodile tears. If he was have any self-awareness at all he would resign now and go and live in a hermitage. Like a crab.

Bringing the Church into a House of Ill-Repute

But of course, the Usurper Bendedict knows esactly what he is doing. Is not a matter of self-awareness. He is deliberately gone now to Spain to bolster the anti-Church feeling there. In beatifying a man who couldn’t even build properly (next time you are in Barcelona - not that I am recommend that you go there - have a look at the Sagrada Família: Is full of holes! I have seen mental children’s sandcastles on the beach after high tide that look more spiritual than that!) Bendedict is bringing the Catholic Church into further houses of ill-repute. He is making a mockerage of beatification. Even the required miracle that is necessary for making someone a saint is, on this occasion, totally ridic. It is report that a woman from Reus, Montserrat Barenys, is claiming that her sight in one eye was miraculously restore after she prayed to Gaudí for help. Barenys said she was diagnose with a perforated retina and was due to be operate on, but then she pray to Gaudí for help and suddenly was being cured.

Now, far it is for me to especulate upon the motives and internal psychological mechanisations of the brains of a mad woman, but who, in their right mind, could think it would make sense that they would get their sight in one eye back by praying to a dead architect? Particularly one who could not build properly. What on earth was she imagining? Is like, for the sake of an analogy, if I had arthritis, let us say. Not bad arthritis, because in this analogy, Señora Barenys was not going total blind, only a bit blind, so let us say I have got arthritis in one leg. In my knee. And the doctors have told me that I will have to hop for the rest of my life. So I am very depress, obviously. What, then, is my logical next step? Well, it is to use my good leg. Or is to buy myself a Segway. One thing is for certain. It is NOT that I start praying to Christopher Wren to make me better! And not just because he is an Anglian, and would probly therefore intervene with Our Lord only to make sure I get osteoporosis. No. I may as well pray to Herman Melville, who at least had some sympathy with one-legged people.

Thus, the only conclusion that anyone can drawer from this sorry tail is that the Usurper Bendedict is so intent of making the Church a source of ridicule that it suits him not just to beatify a rubbish architect but to do so on the testimony of a madwoman. One with perfect eyesight, I am grant you, but a madwoman neverthenonetheless.

All the Spanish aggressive secularists are laughing today. We must make them laugh on the other sides of their face one day. This may require patience, stealth, and Stanley knives, but this embarrassment of an anti-pont is only making it increasingly necessary. However much we are going to enjoy it, we must not forget that it is he who made us do it. Also, is God’s will. I can hear his voice now. Kill them. Kill them all.

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