Posted on 01/04/2021 6:27:32 PM PST by marshmallow
Mocks God as rapist
DUBLIN (ChurchMilitant.com) - Ireland's Catholics are being urged to defund the nation's taxpayer-funded broadcaster after it televised a mock news report on New Year's Eve accusing God of raping the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) One television issued a weak apology Saturday but refused to delete the clip from the RTÉ Player online catch-up service, stating that it would attach a warning advising viewers that the material may cause offense.
The sacrilegious sketch, which features former RTÉ anchor Aengus Mac Grianna describing God as "the latest figure to be implicated in ongoing sexual harassment scandals," provoked outrage from Irish Catholics on social media, with over 1,100 formal complaints lodged with RTÉ.
In the clip the newscaster reads: "The five-billion-year-old stood accused of forcing himself on a young middle-eastern migrant and allegedly impregnating her against her will, before being sentenced to two years in prison, with the last 24 months suspended."
The camera shows "God" dressed in a long white robe and with long white hair and a beard being led away by a member of the Gardaí (Irish police) and shouting: "It was 2,000 years ago."
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T’was Ireland.
I’ll stick with Irish RM and Bally-K reruns.
The downward spiral is everywhere.
Someone should ask Frankie the w if that sketch was sacrilegious. I doubt he would care.
w = Pope
I was rather hoping it was about that Mohammed fellow.
Mocking the Powerful Almighty One is the trait of the lowest scum of the dumbest fools.
I recall many an Irish origin immigrant/student/visitor when I lived the Gay State who was a leftist. They were the most leftist of europeans I knew, but then I lived in a jurisdiction which voted something like 93 % for Al gore and less than 7% for George Bush (yeah, it was a while ago)
It's sad. It's tragic. It's terrifying and horrifying.
It has afflicted America too.
What England couldn’t do to the Irish, the Irish are doing to themselves.
IOW,the European Union.
No, you’re wrong. The Irish chose to be there. And it goes much further. A good example was the series “Father Ted”. It was comically radical at the time. Consider years of oppression and abuse of the population by the Catholic Church. If you are not intimately familiar with the subject you need to do some research.
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