{"id":649,"date":"2011-04-11T17:10:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T17:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2011\/04\/duane-mandible-on-humor-in-religion\/"},"modified":"2014-12-26T11:05:14","modified_gmt":"2014-12-26T16:05:14","slug":"duane-mandible-on-humor-in-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2011\/04\/duane-mandible-on-humor-in-religion.html","title":{"rendered":"Duane Mandible on Humor in Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
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Guest blogger, Duane Mandible is a contributing editor to\u00a0<\/em><\/span>The Truth Hurts<\/span>, a bi-monthly journal of politics, economics and opinion. He also contributes regularly to\u00a0<\/em><\/span>Freedom Monthly; Illuminations\u00a0<\/span>and\u00a0<\/em><\/span>The Sojourner<\/span>. Duane is the author of\u00a0<\/em><\/span>Guns and Knives will Save Your Children\u2019s Lives.\u00a0<\/span>He is Vice President of the Sacred Society of St Philibustre, and enjoys hunting rattlesnakes, square dancing and watching re runs of comedy classics. He is unmarried.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

During this most holy season of Lent it has been drawn to my attention that there are certain \u2018Novus Ordo\u2019 priests who write blogs rather than occupying their time saying Mass and ministering to the faithful. It does not come as a surprise to me that this is so. Along with the innovations of the timeless Mass which were instituted by the Freemason \u2018Pope\u2019 Roncalli came the insidious idea of \u2018aggiornomento\u2019 which means \u2018opening up the windows\u2019. With this seemingly harmless idea he and his successor, the ineffectual Montini brought the whole demonic modern world into the ancient Catholic Church. Suddenly you saw priests wearing jeans, nuns listening to the radio and Catholic school children started to chew gum.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, certain of these \u2018priests\u2019 not only write blogs rather than reading their breviary, but they seek to \u2018entertain\u2019 their readers with \u2018humor\u2019. Since when is a priest ordained to make people laugh? Did Our Lord laugh? No. The gospel says, \u201cJesus wept. We never have one verse that says, \u201cJesus laughed.\u201d This priestly \u2018humor\u2019 takes the form of lighthearted joking about sacred things. Often these priests even stoop to a form of humor called satire\u2013which (I am told) is a sophisticated form of mockery which is only bitter sarcasm under a different name. These Novus Ordo priests believe that their blogs are \u2018methods of evangelization\u2019 when we can see that they are no more than vainglorious and shallow artifices designed to bolster their petty attempts at fame. Through their blogs they shamelessly sell their books, pander to their crowds of adoring readers (who are mostly women) and seek out more and more attention for themselves.<\/p>\n

Recently one \u2018blogger\u2019 discussed in a lighthearted way the role of women in the church. Never once did he mention the Blessed Virgin, and never once did he point out the ancient tradition that women are, by nature, unclean and should be barred from the sanctuary because of their ritual uncleanness. We in the Society of St Filibustre maintain the most ancient traditions of the church and not only insist that our women wear proper head coverings to the Holy and Divine Liturgy in the Western Ambrosianic Rite (non collegian) but the females are also required to sit on benches along the wall and wear the ankle length black robe called the Magdalene which reminds them of their lower order of their existence.<\/p>\n

The Society of St Filibustre does not allow women to be altar servers, lectors or \u2018special Eucharistic ministers.\u2019 As Mgr. Donald Rickles has written, \u201cWomen\u2019s place in the church is on their knees\u2013either praying or scrubbing the floor.\u201d Only when women are in this role do they show the true glory of women\u2013by showing the rest of us the true virtues of humility and submission.<\/p>\n

I make this appeal to all those Catholics who have been deceived by the \u2018papal\u2019 pronouncements of the anti popes Wotyla and Ratzinger\u2013return to the true church! Do not put up with girl altar servers wearing lipstick and dangly earrings! Do not accept the buttoned maniple! Only when the Western Ambrosianic Rite (non collegian) is restored in all it\u2019s glory will the Catholic Church once again be purged of the sickening novelty of priests writing blogs, joking and using satire and mocking holy things. Only when the ancient traditions are restored will Lent once more be the holy and solemn season that it is meant to be.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Guest blogger, Duane Mandible is a contributing editor to\u00a0The Truth Hurts, a bi-monthly journal of politics, economics and opinion. He also contributes regularly to\u00a0Freedom Monthly; Illuminations\u00a0and\u00a0The Sojourner. Duane is the author of\u00a0Guns and Knives will Save Your Children\u2019s Lives.\u00a0He is Vice President of the Sacred Society of St Philibustre, and enjoys hunting rattlesnakes, square dancing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[4,94,62],"class_list":["post-649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-duane-mandible","tag-alter-egos","tag-humor","tag-weird-church-stuff"],"yoast_head":"\nDuane Mandible on Humor in Religion<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Guest blogger, Duane Mandible is a contributing editor to\u00a0The Truth Hurts, a bi-monthly journal of politics, economics and opinion. 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