I like his beanie. Except it should have a propellor on it.

Exactly true. Worse.

There was a thing in the paper recently about a Hassidic Rabbi pulling similar stunts in Brooklyn. Congo pressured the kid and his rents to STFU. Not sure where it is. have to google.

Find the Pope in the Pizza.

Father Guido Sarducci: Well, I think what I'm gonna do for the prize, whoever wins -- you know, finds the most Popes -- they'll get to have a button that I designed myself. I noticed on the tour, the best selling button was this. [holds up button] It says, "I Got a Peek at the Pope" ... And I designed a button that I think even more people can relate to. [holds up another button] It says, "I saw the Pope on TV" ... This is what you win. And now, I think, we're about ready. So while you're looking at the pizza for thirty seconds, I'm gonna play a cut from Pius XII's album. ... Here is Pius XII singing "On the Sunny Side of the Street" ... And now find the Pope in the pizza. Good luck to you. All two hundred and fifty-four.

[A jazz recording of the old pop song "On the Sunny Side of the Street" plays as we dissolve to close-up of the pizza: mostly a red mass of tomato sauce, but also cheese and one rather large image of a Pope sitting behind a desk in the lower right hand corner. The other Popes are invisible to the naked eye. A clock ticks off thirty seconds in the upper left hand corner as Father Sarducci's voice chimes in with occasional helpful hints.]

Some are easy to find, some are hard. ... Here's a little clue for you. Most of the Popes have red faces. ... Here's another clue. One of them is in the right side of the screen. ... Behind the desk.

What's a Congo? An African country pressured them?

like a convo=conversation

Congregation

What the crap? Why????

Well, I can't really say for sure about the Jewish congregation, but for the Christians, it goes something like this: one of the very basic rules is that you must not do anything that would cause another to stumble (commit a sin) and/or weaken their faith in God, even if it's not a problem for you. Like, you don't drink in front of the alcoholic, even though you yourself are not an alcoholic. So if you're doing it right, the result is that people view themselves as role models and hold themselves to a higher standard.

If you're doing it wrong, then when a scandal arises, there is a desire among some to keep it hush-hush and within the congregation, because an outsider might take the scandal as evidence that this whole God business must be crap, because look at the terrible things his followers do--as, indeed, people tend to do. Of course scandals inevitably come out anyway, and now you've got the added tarnish of hypocrisy, when what they really should have done in the beginning is hold up the sinner as an example of a sinner, something the congregation, being Godly people, clearly won't tolerate.

Anyway, that's another reason the parents take the hush money, aside of course from the delicious money aspect of it.

But Jesus welcomed sinners, and encouraged them to follow him.

Sinners were his target audience. :)

Only sinners who at some point decided they wanted to stop being sinners. Determined, unrepentant sinners were to be first privately rebuked and corrected, then publicly rebuked and corrected, then asked to leave the church body until they were able to be truly repentant as evidenced by their actions. So at most you get to diddle three kids before you are ejected from the entire church body, nevermind being allowed to keep leading it. And really, you shouldn't get more than one, because it is also a tenet of the faith that you must obey the secular law except where it directly conflicts with God's law, thus part of repentance would necessarily be accepting the legal consequences of your illegal actions.

Haggis!

Exactly. Jesus welcomed sinners, not the congregation.

And then they became suicide bombers.

Seems the Catholics have hardly cornered the market:

http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/fai...d_pedophi.html



http://web.archive.org/web/19960101-...rg/clergyabuse