Observations and inanities by a second-shift assistant supervisor in the Puppy-Grinding division of the Evil Atheist Conspiracy® (our motto: "Sure it's cruel, but think of the jobs!"), your host, Brent Rasmussen.
Oh Noes! Pwned by the Pope's Preacher!
A couple of weeks ago, someone at the Vatican really stuck it to the atheists and their little bus campaign, and the wound still stings. Per Reuters, under the headline "Advertising Drive for Atheism Is Mocked":
“We should almost thank the people who promoted that advertising campaign. It has served God’s cause more than so many of our apologetic arguments,” said the Rev. Raniero Cantalamessa . . . "It has demonstrated the poverty of their reasons and has helped stir so many sleeping consciences."
Gah! What a wound is this!
[*Performs melodramatic, gasping death scene*]
But seriously, this is a little bit sad when you consider that even this representative of the HQ of the Catholic Church has to admit that a bus ad about nonbelief does a better job of "serving God's purposes" than his own institution.
And it's a little odd to to be told that atheism suffers from a "poverty of reasons" when it comes from a faith that usually bases its reasoning on fabricated accounts of resurrections, virgin births, and epiaquatic strolls. I suppose when they say "reasons" they mean "things somebody made up." Got us there. In those, we are indeed impoverished.
But I wouldn't worry about Rev. Cantalamessa's biting wit, my doubting friends. Because the good reverend's job title at the Vatican?
"Preacher of the papal household." I'm not even kidding.
I suppose that means he keeps the help spiritually in line in between chandelier dustings. And when he's really good, they sic'em on the atheists.
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Poverty of reasons?
Somebody should point him in the direction of dictionary - specifically the definition of the word 'faith'.