Why Do We Pander To Rubbish Like This?

[Deskdiary]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7565499/Victorian-priest-poet-Cardinal-Newman-canonised-historic-ceremony-Vatican.html

You'd like to think, in 2019, that people had grown-up and realised what total rubbish religion is.

In 2013 an American had a torn placenta and prayed to Cardinal John Henry Newman to stop the bleeding - and lo and behold, the bleeding stopped.

That's what people in the real world with a grasp of reality call a coincidence.

I wish religionists would sometimes consider what they think objectively. If they did you'd hope they'd have an epiphany and realise they're being ridiculous.

I genuinely believe that people who believe in god and heaven and so on have a form of mental illness. If I swore blind in the existence of leprachauns, people would quite rightly question my sanity....and yet even though there's as much proof in the existence of god (i.e, NONE), were meant to take their nuttery seriously and respect it.

Madness.

[Davemano]

No Captain, tony should be Sent.

[Mamyalynne]

I have a small book of Cardinal Newman's poems given to me as a child, some are delightful.

My favourite - My Lady Nature And Her Daughters.

[Khandro]

As is usual on AnswerBank' materialism reigns; for creatures with limited imagination materialism is 'common sense'.

[Khandro]

The posthumous collaboration between Elgar & Newman is one of the glories of English culture;
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dream_of_Gerontius
But I'm afraid it is 'pearls before swine' for many ABers. :0)

[EDDIE51]

If you are stupid enough to read 'The Daily Wail' , you deserve what you get !!!
Not for no reason is the term ' Mail Reader' an insult !!
Did you know that Daily Mail writers , have to stick to using a 'Word List' ? It is based on what a normal 6 year old is expected to know ? If they want to use a word that is not on the list , it has to be 'cleared' by a sub editor !

[Mamyalynne]

I spent a glorious evening in an auditorium with tremendous acoustics being introduced to that and can honestly say I can still feel the tingles now.

Joyous.

[Mamyalynne]

Surprise for you Eddie, the Daily Mail don't get to Canonise anyone.

[ummmm]

Eddie...That's a load of rubbish which has been pointed out to you before when you've said it. I can't believe you fall for such nonsense. You'll be telling us about Trump's IQ next!!

[douglas9401]

Purgatory: not the administration of emetics to the Prime Minister but the condition of believing utter guff passed off as fact.

[naomi24]

Theland at 21:39 Sun, still waiting for you to put - as 'they' say - your money where your mouth is. Multiple invitations - and still ignored.

[Khandro]

The recently retired former editor of the Daily Mail, Paul Dacre, has pointed out that under his editorship, the newspaper “won an unprecedented number of awards for the quality of its journalism and its countless great campaigns, whether launching the war on plastic, cleaning up Britain, Alzheimer’s awareness, dignity for the elderly or justice for Stephen Lawrence”.

[SparklyKid]

I read the mail on-line every morning. Great paper. Only an idiot would not like this paper.

[hereIam]

How utterly disgusting to call people who believe in God 'mentally ill' !!! My Dad believed and he was very far from being mentally ill. Why can't people just live and let live and not get all worked up about something they either do or don't believe in ?? And let's face it, none of us know, not really. Aren't there a lot more important things to get worked up about these days ??

[SparklyKid]

If you were to fervently believe in the existence of , say, unicorns , your sanity would be called into question.

[Khandro]

Sparkly //If you were to fervently believe in the existence of , say, unicorns , your sanity would be called into question.//

Possibly, but what has that to do with my religious beliefs?

[hereIam]

So ??? This is God, we are talking about, not bloody unicorns. And calling people mentally ill because they don't share your belief in whether or not God exists is vile in the extreme. You should be ashamed of yourself. Personally, I think you are scum !!

[SparklyKid]

Nothing really, just curious as to why some people believe in things that do not exist.

[ummmm]

A tad harsh HereIam. Scum are people who rob pensioners, things like that, not people who ridicule religion.

I'm sure it's not the type of thing SK would announce in a pub!

[SparklyKid]

It was Deskdiary in the OP who mentioned mental illness.

[murraymints]

Bless you my child ;0)