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I nominate Richard Dawkins. |
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Who will make the smoke come out of the chimney?
I think I like the idea. + |
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If it's not Dawkins, I'd nominate (in order of
preference) the patron saints of SETI, of nostalgia
and of grammarians, namely St. Ience, St. Imental
and St.Ence. |
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St. Ree, patron saint of guardsmen, just failed to
make the list. |
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The majority of votes should be "No Confidence". It's the catholic church; no-one cares, and with the current leader gone, just let it wither and die. It's become irrelevant. |
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"Testiculos habet et bene pendentes." |
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What?...
I thought he was sneezing. |
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Not sufficiently well hung yet, [Max]. |
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Given the current crop of democratically-elected
leaders, or those comprising the past 100 years or so,
I'm not certain this is such a good idea. |
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News today is that there may be a case to answer, of
child abuse. |
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If heaven isn't run democratically, then why should its representation on earth? |
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That being said, most religions model heaven on the prevailing political model; so when the Greeks existed as a bunch of fighting city-states, their Pantheon kind of reflected that as well - the traditional Chinese heavenly model is very bureaucratic with lots of civil servants and heavenly officials, and the (initially) Monarchical (later Imperial) Abrahamic religions are similarly organised. |
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I'm not entirely sure what model heaven would take nowadays, you could describe the whole general mish-mash as "Democracy" but I think you need to use that in the modern sense, rather than the classical one. |
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The model used in the Catholic Church is a lovely hybrid of technocracy, dynasty and democracy: anyone can join at the bottom level (assuming they are male) but progress is by a combination of talent, patronage and plotting. Being, at the top of the tree, largely impervious to forces from without, the only way to strangle the Catholic Church is from the bottom, choking the supply of talent in the protopriestpool. Bottom-strangling is hard. |
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//St. Ience, St. Imental and St.Ence.// |
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When they get around to canonising L. Ron Hubbard, presumably he'll be St. Ology? |
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By 'canonising' I hope you mean in the sense of being fired from a cannon? |
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To paraphrase Tom Stoppard, if a joke's worth telling once, it's worth telling twice! |
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