The reverse missionaries.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

My niece approached me for funds to support her and her family on their missionary jaunt to ... VIENNA!

IF I had the money I would be taking Ayaan to Vienna to see the Lipizzaners.

[Svartalf]

Missionary travel to Wien?

More like a business convention in Vegas...

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Missionary travel to Wien?

More like a business convention in Vegas...

I guarantee you her family wouldn't have had any fun there. This was in in '08, btw, and they came back rather promptly because the hubby refused to find gainful employment and the Austrians tossed his ass out of the country. Shit-stain went back to his "job" of cleaning the church once a week. Missy has to support the family of four.

[Jesus_of_Nazareth]

I saw 5 minutes of the show - seemed that most people were not against him spreading his message on theological grounds...........they just didn't give a shit.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

The catlickers are having to go farther and farther from the 21st Century to find troopers. The bulk of new priests, so I've heard, come from "third world" countries these days. Seems education and X-boxes are interfering with their recruiting in "first world" countries.

[Svartalf]

The fact that the priesthood no longer is a cushy, sometimes very well paid, job, and is no longer a way to get oneself set up for life in relative comfort may have to do with it too.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

The fact that the priesthood no longer is a cushy, sometimes very well paid, job, and is no longer a way to get oneself set up for life in relative comfort may have to do with it too.

Yeah, they are no longer automatically included in the city councils, etc., so there's less power involved, and thus less money.

[MiM]

My niece approached me for funds to support her and her family on their missionary jaunt to ... VIENNA!

IF I had the money I would be taking Ayaan to Vienna to see the Lipizzaners.

But Austria is among the Christian strongholds in Europe

That said, I have to admit, I go on a missionary to Vienna several times a year. But I always end up in an extraterritorial area making chants about never even testing the bomb again.

Yes, The Lippizaners are beautiful.

[maiforpeace]

I'm not even going to post the link, but there's a prog on BBC2 at 9 tonight about christian missionaries from places like Milliawi (sp?), the West Indies and other rather less than progressive places who are coming to the newly godless countries, particularly in Europe, to use their emotional and 'charasmatic' approach to convert us back to their irrationally based beliefs that many of us have moved on from.

The human capacity for stupidity should not be underestimated it seems..

What goes around comes around, suckers.

Payback is a bitch, ain't it.

It's not Jewish mysticism they're trying to sell, is it? Madonna loves Malawi.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

My niece approached me for funds to support her and her family on their missionary jaunt to ... VIENNA!

IF I had the money I would be taking Ayaan to Vienna to see the Lipizzaners.

But Austria is among the Christian strongholds in Europe

But they're catlickers, right, not True Christians?

That said, I have to admit, I go on a missionary to Vienna several times a year. But I always end up in an extraterritorial area making chants about never even testing the bomb again.

Yes, The Lippizaners are beautiful.

[MiM]

But they're catlickers, right, not True Christians?

Yes, I especially remember one drunk conversation with a brilliant Austrian physicist, who also is a devout catholic. That was "interesting".

[maiforpeace]

Yes, The Lippizaners are beautiful.

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But they're catlickers, right, not True Christians?

Yes, I especially remember one drunk conversation with a brilliant Austrian physicist, who also is a devout catholic. That was "interesting".

Out of all the religions, I do give Catholics credit for providing the more interesting serious conversations though...many of them don't take it personally if you declare your atheism, and simply assume from the start you are going to hell. But they'll still talk to you - there's something to be said for all their missions to leper colonies.

[Svartalf]

But they're catlickers, right, not True Christians?

Yes, I especially remember one drunk conversation with a brilliant Austrian physicist, who also is a devout catholic. That was "interesting".

Never got that one... maybe having been raised catholic is destroying my ability to be objective, but I'm of the impression that regardless of the mistakes an faults of the RCC, the protestants and derivatives always manage to have even worse faults (and sometimes even more basic) to their accounts.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Yes, The Lippizaners are beautiful.

The horses are beautiful and beautifully trained. I almost cried at the end of the show because they left the ring.

[Robert_S]

Where do I gotta go to get me some funding for a mission to Nottingham?