Mon 7 Jul 2008
The Pope Touched Me Downunder
Posted by anaglyph under Australiana, Laughs, Religion
[7] Comments
One of the great joys of living in a society with a relatively high secularly-inclined population with a penchant for larrikanism, is watching the occasional clashes between the church and the heathens when they occur.
This time it all started when someone (the Catholic Church says it wasn’t them and the Catholic Premier of NSW, Morris Iemma, says it wasn’t him) decided that any form of protest of the upcoming World Youth Day (or as some wag has pointed out: World [Roman Catholic] Youth [if you’re a bishop] Day [more like a week]), is not acceptable. Especially, it seems, if that protest is in the form of a t-shirt that might ‘annoy’ the pilgrims. The Sydney constabulary have duly had special laws created for them, without consultation from the very great proportion of the non-Catholic community, that give them quite surprising leeway to apprehend protesters, pranksters or even completely innocent bystanders on the flimsiest of pretexts.
Of course this kind of stupidity is, thankfully, still treated with the derision it deserves by a goodly number of Australians, to the point that one beloved Sydney entrepreneur, Remo Giuffré, the man behind the Remo General Store, is running a contest to see who can come up with the best t-shirt slogan for the event.
I want about ten of these.
Wow. We leave Australia for 12 months and NSW becomes a southern US state? WTF mate?
You picked my two favourites already. But I also like “God said … Don’t make me come down there” and “Say no to sects”.
God Harbors Terrorists.
I have ordered a couple of the T-shirts as I will have to cycle to work past all the pilgrims on World Youth Bollocks (all the roads on my way to work are closed and if I was to drive it would have to go way way out of my way, wasting petrol and no doubt in bad traffic)
Randwick looks like some kind of medieval fair at the moment. Bizarre.
S.
Evenstar: Yeah – did you think they were going to let you back in? Haven’t you been cavorting allover the Heathen Lands. Terrorist.
Cissy Strutt: Yes, lots of choice. I also liked ‘The Stations of The Cross’ (thanks for the headsup btw)
Mike: Plants. Plants are the terrorists. Go back one post. Catholics are merely annoying..
hewhohears: Don’t annoy anyone now. I don’t want to have to come bail you out of the slammer again…
As far as the Medieval Fair is concerned, well, it’s entirely appropriate to the Medieval Mindset.
Universal Head: Buy them all! Annoy LOTS of Catholics. I know I will be.
My fave. WYD could be useful!
hewhohears – which designs?