New Vatican leader raises celibacy question

[dps]

So what do you guys think of the next Hobbit movie? I am not sure if the beard length of the dwarves was a doctrine, or something like a custom, that is free to be changed by the filmmakers.

Hobbits are fantasy.  Not allowing priests to marry has consequences for real people.

Consequences for people who put their lives in the service of the Ancient Era`s Hobbit.

It has consequences for more people than just the priests, dumbass.

[Tamas]

So what do you guys think of the next Hobbit movie? I am not sure if the beard length of the dwarves was a doctrine, or something like a custom, that is free to be changed by the filmmakers.

Hobbits are fantasy.  Not allowing priests to marry has consequences for real people.

Consequences for people who put their lives in the service of the Ancient Era`s Hobbit.

It has consequences for more people than just the priests, dumbass.

Consequences for people who believe the Ancient Era`s Hobbit is actually true.

[Valmy]

Consequences for people who believe the Ancient Era`s Hobbit is actually true.

Never go full retard man.

[dps]

So what do you guys think of the next Hobbit movie? I am not sure if the beard length of the dwarves was a doctrine, or something like a custom, that is free to be changed by the filmmakers.

Hobbits are fantasy.  Not allowing priests to marry has consequences for real people.

Consequences for people who put their lives in the service of the Ancient Era`s Hobbit.

It has consequences for more people than just the priests, dumbass.

Consequences for people who believe the Ancient Era`s Hobbit is actually true.

Even if it were true that the consequences are limited just to Catholics (which it ain't), that's still something around 1/6 of the worlds population.

[merithyn]

Consequences for people who believe the Ancient Era`s Hobbit is actually true.

So, how much have you had to drink tonight, Tamas?

[grumbler]

Tamas, your trolling here is actually not too bad, but few are falling for it.  I'd recommend you bail from this attempt and try  to display your intolerance later, on another subject.

[Habbaku]

The church is infallible. It absolutely can do just that.

  No it isn't.

I meant that as a joke.

[Tamas]

I am showing the same level of tolerance to the people believing the Bible is true, as much as I am showing to people who believe the Hobbit is true. I have every right to do that, based on the amount of evidence available to support those two points.

[merithyn]

Work won't let me see this.

[merithyn]

I am showing the same level of tolerance to the people believing the Bible is true, as much as I am showing to people who believe the Hobbit is true. I have every right to do that, based on the amount of evidence available to support those two points.

You have every right, but you just look kind of ignorant in the way you're doing it.

[Barrister]

I am showing the same level of tolerance to the people believing the Bible is true, as much as I am showing to people who believe the Hobbit is true. I have every right to do that, based on the amount of evidence available to support those two points.

[Valmy]

I am showing the same level of tolerance to the people believing the Bible is true, as much as I am showing to people who believe the Hobbit is true. I have every right to do that, based on the amount of evidence available to support those two points.

Um...you are aware there was actually a Pharoah in Egypt, there was a Cyrus the Great, and there was a Roman Empire right?  This is the sort of idiocy that led people to just assume Troy and Mycenae were entirely fictional, despite never actually checking for evidence.  Really?  Equal evidence supporting the Bible as the Hobbit? 

I mean I do not even believe the Bible as true but that freaking over the top idiotic.

[The Brain]

There are people who live in cellars. There are dwarfs (regardless of what Foreign Affairs claims). There are old farts who like to hang out with much younger people. There are human bears. Need I go on?

[grumbler]

I am showing the same level of tolerance to the people believing the Bible is true, as much as I am showing to people who believe the Hobbit is true. I have every right to do that, based on the amount of evidence available to support those two points.
 

The problem with trolls like this is that they are weak sauce, not that the Bible (which has plenty of documented historical "truths," whether you accept the evidence or not) is no more credible than a work created as a fiction.  The town of Jerico, for instance, turns out to be a real place, according to scientific investigations.  That you dismiss these scientific claims as no better than Tolkien's admitted fictions says much about you, but nothing about the topic.

As i said, bail now, regroup, and come back on another topic.  I don't think anyone is crossing your bridge on this one.

[Tamas]

  Yeah folks. That's what I meant when I wrote the Bible was fiction. The Pharaos and Jericho.