The Catholic Channel is the biggest propaganda channel since Faux News

[Rozlee]

Has anyone here heard of EWTN? It's a Catholic Channel that features guests speakers, several mind-numbingly boring recitals of the rosary and above all, anti-science propaganda on the Big Bang, evolution and anthropogenic global climate change. It reaches 146 households in 127 countries and 16 territories. It was founded by this absolutely hateful nun called Mother Angelica that excoriated women who used birth control (she thought God wanted them to have Irish twins every nineteen months), women in the priesthood (she said women should never tell male clergy what to do even though she regularly did just that by disagreeing publicly on her show about Bishops and Cardinals whom she disagreed with and on two occasions, even the Pope) and refused to go along with Church protocol that she said was too modern and that she preferred her audience to stick to the practices of the 15th century. Probably burning witches at the stake.

Now, as a lapsed Catholic, col-lapsed might be a better term, I have to give reluctant props to the church on the acceptance of the Big Bang, their conditional acceptance of evolution, and as of a week ago, their acceptance of man-made global warming. But, EWTN remains militantly anti-science. This is so familiar. So many, if not all, devout Protestant X-ians go to church on Sunday, Wednesday and have bible study in between. But, their pastors cherry pick the verses and stories in the bible that they want them to learn during those lessons and sermons. The flock never read the bible. If they did, it's my opinion that they'd become overnight atheists as I did.

Same thing with Catholics. A shocking number of their Bishops, Cardinals, and priests never read Papal bulls and encyclicals. Probably too busy reading how-to manuals on child molestation and how to cover them up. As a result, my Catholic family ridicules the Big Bang Theory, evolution, and global climate change. All because they hear these idiots on EWTN preaching their anti-science talking points. A certain Father Sirico is a frequent guest on EWTN. He is the president of Acton, a think tank funded by EXXON. He loves sticking it to "environmental fascists" whom he declares want to push global climate change as a way of pushing for population control and aborting babies.

This is beyond idiocy. Didn't the Galileo debacle teach these nimrods anything? And why isn't Benny the Rat stepping in to correct this stuff? You'd think the leader of the world's Catholics would pay attention to what the main informant and educator of it's adherents is doing.

But, noooo. And EWTN keeps spreading it's anti-science message into tens of millions of households everyday. And it's damn boring rosary recitals.

[enuegii]

1. Do they still broadcast from that Roman Catholic hotbed of Hanceville, Alabama?

By the way, I think you mean "146 million households," instead of "146 households."

If only...

[Rozlee]

2. I stand corrected. It's 146 million.

I just did some googling. It's either Irondale or Hanceville. Either way, you're probably right: it's either a Catholic hotbed, a snake handlers hotbed or both.

[progressoid]

3. It's part of our basic cable package.

I've landed on that channel a few times and I'm always stunned by the pride they have for their 18th (being generous here) century views.

A few days ago, I saw three or four lay women happily declaring the advantages of women being subservient to men. And, of course, the biblical reasons to do so. :banghead:

[Rozlee]

4. *Fume*

:grr:

[Ninjaneer]

5. ...

:puke:

[onager]

6. EWTN is a real hoot at Xmas, though.

They always have some 800-yr-old nun selling the ugliest, tackiest Catholic Xmas gear imaginable.

And I was raised as a white Southern Baptist - I know tacky. Many of my relatives favor those huge, gilt-framed portraits of Aryan Jesus. Where a swarthy Middle-Eastern rabbi somehow got morphed into a blond, blue-eyed beach boy who looks alarmingly like the bastard offspring of Billy Graham and Elvis Presley.

I remember falling off the couch laughing as I watched EWTN one Xmas. Sister Tyrannosaurus was pitching three "amazingly life-like" Baby Jesi for your creche. You had your choice of small, medium or life-size Baby Jesus. But there was a clear implication that only the faith-weak and maybe Presbyterians would cheap out for Small Baby Jesus. The truly faithful would go for the Super-Deluxe Life-Sized model. All major credit cards accepted.

Oh! I can also thank EWTN for telling me about the Pope's Movie Festival this month:

The next day was to be dedicated to “the priest in the collective imagination” and was to show the 2010 French film "Of Gods and Men" as well as Alfred Hitchcock’s 1953 drama "I Confess," starring Montgomery Clift as a Catholic priest.

:rofl:

Have a little irony, Catholics, it's good for your blood...

http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/catholic-film-festival-goes-to-rome/

[Rozlee]

7. What bugs me is the children's programs.

Is it just me or is that angel and the banana song kinda pervy? And the Donut Man looks like a real herbert.

[onager]

8. Never seen those...

I only tune in to EWTN occasionally on Sunday mornings, after my own banana and roasted-baby breakfast. (And around Xmas, as noted.)

Sometimes I like a little Recreational Xianity, and I know I can always find something to make me rage and foam at the mouth perk me up in the Sunday A.M. Jeez, there's EWTN, Paul & Jan Crouch, Creflo Dollar, Coral Ridge Baptist Church Hour of Hate...the list goes on and on.

The Crystal Cathedral's "Hour o' Power" has been really entertaining the last few months, because of their financial scandals/bankruptcy. Every week is a big beg-a-thon. Like Wall St. banksters, those clowns declared bankruptcy while preserving their own huge salary/benefit packages. They stiffed their suppliers, including one family with 3 kids who got evicted from their home last winter.

Xian values! Can't beat 'em!

Thanks for starting this thread. I like your style and hope you hang around.