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Lazar wrote:

Reliant121 wrote:I'm seeing a trend of capitalized groupings.

The Gaysâ„¢, The Jewsâ„¢....No offence to some members, but it'll end up being The Jehovah'sâ„¢ next.

Or, a classic: The Gypsiesâ„¢.

I'm Jewish on my father's side and Gypsy on my mother's side. WIN!

Dude, couldn't you figure out a way to get African-American, Native American, and Mexican in there as well?

This Tom Leher gem is 43 years old, and still just as great as ever - National Brotherhood Week

It's all the Jews fault?

DUH!!

Any more stunning revelations on tap from the Catholic church? Water is wet? Hitler was bad?

Tyyr wrote:Hitler was bad?

A few members of the RCC might disagree with you there.

Tyyr wrote:It's all the Jews fault?

DUH!!

Any more stunning revelations on tap from the Catholic church? Water is wet? Hitler was bad?

Wow, you really are from the South, ain't you?

Sionnach Glic wrote:

Tyyr wrote:Hitler was bad?

A few members of the RCC might disagree with you there.

They might disagree, but they get reinstated for it.

Well, I was gonna call, but me, Shlomo, and Herschel were out drinking some Manischewitz, and the nigth was getting on, and Shlomo was all like, "What do you wanna do tonight?" And I was all like, "I dunno," and then Herschel says, "I know! Why don't we start a libel and slander campaign to impugn the Catholic Church?" and then I was all, "But all those priests really DID molest those kids..."

HOLY SHIT, that's the funniest thing I read today! The other people in my office are looking at me like I lost my mind. Aahhh I needed a good laugh

Why does everyone hate the Jews? Aren't they the masters of money or something? We should be rounding them up and making them work for anything that involves cash. Not getting pissy about everything.

I have a Goldstein for an accountant.

I have a Katsberg here.

Deepcrush wrote:Why does everyone hate the Jews? Aren't they the masters of money or something? We should be rounding them up and making them work for anything that involves cash. Not getting pissy about everything.

You don't want to round us up. Average individual Jew on the street? Not much of a fighter. Put a bunch together, and you've got the IDF and Mossad. I guess we're like the opposite of Italians.

Anyway, I can't argue with your other point - I mean, when did things around here start to tank? When the Reserve replaced a Greenspan with a Bernanke, that's when.

From Family Guy's "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein," I Need a Jew.

Mikey wrote:...I guess we're like the opposite of Italians...

The Catholic Church just seems to absolutely monumentally misunderstand people's reaction to this issue.

Remember the Hitchens/Fry debate on Catholicism? When they brought the scandal up the reaction of the other side was a literally exasperated "Oh, not THIS again, haven't people forgotten that yet?!"

Let's see, the church systematically hid and protected known child abusers from prosecution.
When discovered, they've used every legal tactic possible to squash lawsuits against them by their victims.
They recently blamed atheists for the whole thing.
And now it's the fault of the Jews, apparently.

And at NO point do they seem to get that they did something genuinely wrong... and on this particular issue, the one single issue that pushes emotional buttons like no other, at least in the west. You know in the UK a doctor had her office firebombed because she had a sign saying "Pediatrician" on the door... because it looked like Pedophile. That's how outraged people are on this kind of issue, for a lot of people it totally circumvents rational thought and just evokes sheer unthinking rage. But the Church seems to have the attitude of "it's not for you to question what we do, we're here to tell you how to live, not vice versa." The seem honestly confused the people judge them on this.

I'm not positive, but I think a lot of that attitude can be traced to the fact that Catholicism is a mystery religion. In other words, there is a division between laity and clergy, with the clergy holding some supernatural abilities that the laity doesn't. It requires a priest to perform the sacraments, to convert the gifts into the Eucharist, etc. I think this has bred an air of an insider network, an idea of dissociation from the world at large among the clergy - that is, the (false) idea that a matter such as this should be dealt with internally amidst the heirarchy of the Church, and that discussion of it outside that rarefied group is unwarranted.

Tyyr wrote:I have a Goldstein for an accountant.

Deepcrush wrote:I have a Katsberg here.

BTW, in a textbook definition of irony... my accountant is named Snyder.

Mikey wrote:

Tyyr wrote:I have a Goldstein for an accountant.

Deepcrush wrote:I have a Katsberg here.

BTW, in a textbook definition of irony... my accountant is named Snyder.

Yeah, but yours is only for show...

Mikey wrote:

Tyyr wrote:I have a Goldstein for an accountant.

Deepcrush wrote:I have a Katsberg here.

BTW, in a textbook definition of irony... my accountant is named Snyder.

Mine is named computer...