The Huffington Post published in its Comedy Section a supposed “satire” of the Catholic Church by Larry Doyle. The main problem I have with the piece is not that it is anti-Catholic, though it obviously is, the actual problem which nobody is focusing on is that it is milquetoast at best. The tone and text is utterly boring. Jesus and the Pope would dismiss the tripe without any feeling of personal harm; it is Juvenal who would have Mr. Doyle raked over the coals. After he woke up and realized what had happened he would be utterly and resolutely out for that poor man’s blood!
If this is what passes for free thought unencumbered by the drag of dogmatic and structured philosophy then free thought should be brought up on charges of fraud. The thoughts espoused are so hackneyed that that they were ridden hard and put away wet in the early middle ages, somewhere in history there is a Donatist scratching his head and looking for his not yet invented copy-right lawyer.
Larry Doyle almost makes Jack Chick look like a theologian. “The Death Cookie” is almost a greater work than this sad “satire”.
The term satire must have been employed to highlight the lack of objective and documentable truth held within the feeble work of pseudo-intellect. Trey Stone and Matt Parker should demand its removal from the Huffington Post before the Pope raise half an eyebrow.
Arianna Huffington should be drawn and quartered, metaphorically of course, for this not because of the anti-Catholicism it so blatantly shows; but rather because it shows the “barbarism” does not occur in the Holy Mass but in the brutal way the culture is being dumbed down by “satires” such as the one she saw fit to print.
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