prose Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 My goodness. I just watched some of his routines on youtube. I hope the man made peace with God before he left.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lil Red Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 +J.M.J.+ [url="http://deacbench.blogspot.com/2008/06/final-irony-for-george-carlin.html"]The Deacon's Bench[/url] has a nice post up. [quote]He was a renegade and a rebel, and he didn't exactly hold the Catholic Church in high esteem. Born and raised Catholic, he spent a fair amount of his adult life mocking it. As his obit notes, quoting him: "The whole problem with this idea of obscenity and indecency, and all of these things — bad language and whatever — it's all caused by one basic thing, and that is: religious superstition," Carlin told the AP in a 2004 interview. "There's an idea that the human body is somehow evil and bad and there are parts of it that are especially evil and bad, and we should be ashamed. Fear, guilt and shame are built into the attitude toward sex and the body. ... It's reflected in these prohibitions and these taboos that we have." So perhaps the ultimate irony, the last joke for the man who took such a dim view of religion, is that he died at a Catholic hospital, St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, on the Lord's day, Sunday.[/quote] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archaeology cat Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 I'm sure St. Monica was praying for him, as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vincent Vega Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 (Asking this with full charity and sincerity): Is it worth praying for him? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alycin Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 (edited) [quote name='USAirwaysIHS' post='1580461' date='Jun 23 2008, 05:21 PM'](Asking this with full charity and sincerity): Is it worth praying for him?[/quote] ETA: Prayers are never wasted. Edited June 23, 2008 by Alycin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prose Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 [quote name='USAirwaysIHS' post='1580461' date='Jun 23 2008, 04:21 PM'](Asking this with full charity and sincerity): Is it worth praying for him?[/quote] I try to pray especially hard for people who are not Catholic and have died. I figure that if they are in purgatory, they will have very few others praying for them, therefore they need many many prayers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vincent Vega Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 I know...but would they be better put to use by, say, praying for those in purgatory? I mean, the man [i]was[/i] a militant atheist who blasphemed like Rosie eats Oreos... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prose Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 Well, no prayers are wasted. Maybe he had a deathbed conversion. We just don't know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vincent Vega Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 [quote name='prose' post='1580479' date='Jun 23 2008, 04:33 PM']We just don't know.[/quote] I suppose not. I'll stick a word in for him, I guess... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archaeology cat Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 [quote name='prose' post='1580479' date='Jun 23 2008, 10:33 PM']Well, no prayers are wasted. Maybe he had a deathbed conversion. We just don't know.[/quote] That's how I feel about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prose Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 [quote name='USAirwaysIHS' post='1580483' date='Jun 23 2008, 04:37 PM']I suppose not. I'll stick a word in for him, I guess...[/quote] I am sure he will appreciate it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madtown Sem. Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 i hope this doesn't get off track, BUT prayers for the dead that we make on earth are always "effective." since the souls of the dead are no longer in the realm of time, but in the eternal present, the prayers we make even after people have died are efficacious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lil Red Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 [quote name='Madtown Sem.' post='1580503' date='Jun 23 2008, 03:46 PM']i hope this doesn't get off track, BUT prayers for the dead that we make on earth are always "effective." since the souls of the dead are no longer in the realm of time, but in the eternal present, the prayers we make even after people have died are efficacious.[/quote] +J.M.J.+ word. btw, your avatar srsly freaks me out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madtown Sem. Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 [quote name='Lil Red' post='1580506' date='Jun 23 2008, 04:48 PM']+J.M.J.+ word. btw, your avatar srsly freaks me out[/quote] now we're off track...That is a picture of a priest/wrestler whose story inspired the movie "Nacho Libre" which I absolutely adore. The real priest started wrestling to make money for the orphanage that he served at and really has lived a saintly life. Here's the full story of "Fray Tormenta" Friar Storm. [url="http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2006/06/14/1630776.html"]http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2006/06/14/1630776.html[/url] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lil Red Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 [quote name='Madtown Sem.' post='1580522' date='Jun 23 2008, 03:54 PM']now we're off track...That is a picture of a priest/wrestler whose story inspired the movie "Nacho Libre" which I absolutely adore. The real priest started wrestling to make money for the orphanage that he served at and really has lived a saintly life. Here's the full story of "Fray Tormenta" Friar Storm. [url="http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2006/06/14/1630776.html"]http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2006/06/14/1630776.html[/url][/quote] +J.M.J.+ okay thanks, i always thought it was some weird Insane Clown Posse thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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