Monicks: Unleashed

Tag: religion

  • Pennywise – My God

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    My God Lyrics:
    People on the street they wannna find a god they’ll never know,
    Organized religion pulls the blinds then they pull the wool,
    They open up your head, they’re fuckin’ with your mind,
    Now you can’t see because you’re blind
    You try to make amends but your heads still spinnin’ round,
    The church of Jesus Christ said it’s time, don’t fuck around,
    You wanna go to heaven, you see it isn’t free, give your money up to me
    My god is not the one that you wanna see, your god is a mirage,
    A conspiracy, you pray for forgiveness cause your sinnin’,
    Scared to death so your money you’ll be givin’, yeah

    Holier than thou with your one way morality,
    I think your shallow faith isn’t based in reality,
    You don’t like how were live, we’re sinful and obscene,
    Why are you judgin’ me?
    You’re richer than God but you’re cryin’ out for more,
    You’re livin’ like a king while you steal from the poor,
    Wanna be forgiven, get on your knees and pray,
    Send in your cash and be saved

    My god is not the one that you wanna see,
    Your god is a mirage, a conspiracy,
    You pray for forgiveness cause your sinnin’,
    Scared to death so your money you’ll be givin’,
    Yeah, better hope you’ve been chosen to be saved

    Cause your empathy only goes so far today
    Pay no mind to those in pain if you just want the souls
    Who are willing to pay
    Their way, your god’s not for me

    My god is not the one that you wanna see,
    Your god is a mirage, a conspiracy,
    You pray for forgiveness cause your sinnin’,
    Scared to death so your money you’ll be givin’,
    Yeah, my god is not the one that you wanna see,
    Your god is a mirage, a conspiracy,
    You pray for forgiveness cause your sinnin’,
    Scared to death so your money you’ll be givin’,
    Yeah, stop

  • Richard Dawkins’ Speech at “Protest the Pope” March

    [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_0kFU7IfPM&w=640&h=390]

    This is the full speech by Richard Dawkins at the “Protest The Pope” rally, 18th September 2010. (unedited)

  • Pope Benedict XVI’s astronomer: the Catholic Church welcomes aliens

    Highly evolved extra terrestrial lifeforms may be living in space and would be welcomed into the church – “no matter how many tentacles”, one of the Pope’s astronomers has said.

    By Richard Alleyne, Science Correspondent
    Published: 4:16PM BST 17 Sep 2010

    Dr Guy Consolmango, curator of the Pope's meteorite collection

    Brother Guy Consolmagno is curator of the Pope’s meteorite collection Photo: AP Photo/Plinio Lepri

    The senior Vatican scientist, Brother Guy Consolmagno, said that he would be delighted if we encountered intelligent aliens and would be happy to baptise them.

    His pronouncement opens up the possibility of space missionaries heading out to the stars to convert aliens to Christianity.

    Speaking on the eve of addressing the British Science Festival, Dr Consolmangno said he had no problem with science and religion co-existing together.

    But he dismissed Creationism and claimed that the revival of “intelligent design” – the controversial theory that only God can explain gaps in the theory of evolution – was “bad theology”.

    Dr Consolmango is one of a team of 12 astronomers working for the Vatican, said the Catholic Church had been supporting and funding science for centuries.

    He said he was “comfortable” with the idea of alien life and asked if he would baptise an alien, he replied “Only if they asked”.

    “I’d be delighted if we found life elsewhere and delighted if we found intelligent life elsewhere,” he said.

    “But the odds of us finding it, of it being intelligent and us being able to communicate with it – when you add them up it’s probably not a practical question.

    “God is bigger than just humanity. God is also the god of angels.”

    He said the characteristics synonymous with having a soul – intelligence, free will, freedom to love and freedom to make decisions may not be unique to humans.

    “Any entity – no matter how many tentacles it has has a soul,’ he said.

    However machines were unlikely to be smart or human-enough to have souls.

    Dr Consolmango, 57, the curator of the Pope’s meteorite collection, is a trained astronomer and planetary scientist at the Vatican’s observatory.

    He worked as a scientist in California for 15 years before turning to the church.

    He said “intelligent design” had been “hijacked” by religious fundamentalists.

    “The word has been hijacked by a narrow group of Creationist fundamentalists in America to mean something it did not originally mean at all.

    “It’s another form of the God of the gaps,” he said.

    ‘It’s bad theology in that it turns God once again into the pagan god of thunder and lightning.’

    The phrase ‘Intelligent Design’ was centuries old and described the idea that God could be discovered in the laws of space and time and the existence of human reason..

    The Vatican was ‘very aware’ of what was going on in the world of science, he added.

    The Pontifical Academy of Science, of which Stephen Hawking is a member, kept the senior cardinals and the Pope up-to-date with the latest scientific developments, he said.

    The discovery of aliens would raise huge theological problems for the Roman Catholic church that would make the debate over women priests, clerical abstinence and contraception pale into insignificance.

    via telegraph.co.uk