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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 04/09/2009 : 03:36:46
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Like PZ, I too would like to have this by my door!
Ain't she a beauty  ?
Anyhow, one Father Edward Commolly has his knickers in a knot that is all but Gordian over it, hehehehehe. Some consider a statue of a female pirate scantily dressed in Schuylkill county inappropriate.
It has treasure and boots, tight fitting pants and some say not enough clothing on the top. The pirate statue sits in front of a antique store in Girardville and it's ruffling some feathers, especially those of a Roman Catholic priest.
"I believe that it's indecent. I guess it would categorized as soft porn. If there is a definition of that I would call it soft porn," said Father Edward Commolly.
He believes the statue is a public assault.
The statue has been moved back from the sidewalk, the owners said, because it's windy but on the day of a recent protest the pirate was standing in full view.
Father Commolly commanded the owners to remove it.
"He pointed to the statue and very dictatorially and said, 'I curse you. I curse this place. I want to see this destroyed. I want her destroyed,'" said pirate owner Peggy Kanigoski.
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Well, anything that pisses off a priest can't be all bad....
[Moved to the Religion folder - Dave W.]
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
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Edited by - filthy on 04/09/2009 03:37:43
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 04/09/2009 : 08:05:48 [Permalink]
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Who the fuck does the priest think he is?
Just for that, we should organize a collect and get the shop owner a second statue! Maybe a sexy-she devil. |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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Posted - 04/09/2009 : 10:50:12 [Permalink]
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| I guess the good father is more of an ass man. |
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Why not question something for a change?
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 04/09/2009 : 11:33:36 [Permalink]
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An officially Catholic priest-cursed pirate wench statue? That's gotta be valuable! I suspect the priest is in on it with the owners to raise the value of the statue, and that they will pay the good father a kickback when they sell the lovely thing.
If this theory is incorrect, however, I suggest the owners and their supporters have a street procession with the wench as a "saint" carried upon the shoulders of piratical "worshipers." The procession should pass by the priest's church.
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moakley
SFN Regular
USA
1888 Posts |
Posted - 04/10/2009 : 04:35:45 [Permalink]
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| He would probably prefer that the statue more closely resemble Alannah Myles and her little boy hips. |
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Crabby Catholic curses, well, everything in sight
