God and other nonsense

El ex-obispo de ciudad de México y cardenal Javier Lozano, indicó que los homosexuales "nunca entrarán al reino de los cielos" y que la homosexualidad es "un insulto a Dios".

Un vocero del vaticano, Federico Lombardi, se apresuró a declarar en un e-mail que esto no representa la posición oficial de la Iglesia Católica, que es que "la práctica de actos homosexuales es pecaminosa, pero la homosexualidad no lo es".

Aurelio Mancuso, el presidente de la asociación de derechos homosexuales Arcigay le contestó al cardenal lo siguiente:

«Si è vero, le donne, gli e le omosessuali, le/gli trans consapevoli e liberi non entreranno mai nel vostro Regno dei Cieli, che è un luogo oscuro e ingiusto, cui può accedere solamente chi condivide le vostre farneticazioni e volontà di dominio sui corpi e sulle idee di milioni di persone libere e determinate a sconfiggere tutti i pregiudizi di cui siete millenari portatori.»

«Sí, es verdad, las mujeres, ellas y los homosexuales, a sabiendas y libremente no entraran jamás en vuestro Reino de los Cielos, que es un lugar oscuro e injusto, al cual puede acceder solamente el que comparte vuestros delirios y voluntad de dominio sobre los cuerpos y las ideas de millones de personas libres y determinadas a derrotar todos los prejuicios de los cuales sois milenarios portadores.»

In one great scene of the film The Invention of Lying, Mark Bellison (played by Rick Gervais) addresses a crowd in front of his home and millions around the world following his speech through TV.

Mark lives in a world were nobody has ever told a lie, but has discovered that he is able to tell lies. After telling her dying mother that she was going to a "better place", people push him to tell them everything he knows about afterlife. He makes up an explanation in the form of a list of 10 things that he writes in two pizza boxes.

Number one: there is a man in the sky who controls everything.

Number two: ...

Man 1 [interrupts]: what does he looks like?

Mark: tall, big hands for making stuff, good head of hair.

Man 2: what ethnicity?

Mark: he is a new ethnicity, he is a mixture of all our ethnicities.

Man 3: does he live in the clouds?

Mark: no

Man 1: can we see him?

Mark: no, he is high in the clouds, too high to see him.

Man 3: so he lives in space.

Mark: no, not that high.

Man 2: so he is in the thermosphere?

Mark: sorry people, we have a lot to get through here. Man lives in the sky, you can't see him, controls everything ...

Number two: when you die, you don't disappear into an eternity of nothingness. Instead, you go to a really great place.

Number three: in that place, everyone will get a mansion. (the crowd cheers).

Man 4: what kind of mansion?

Mark: the best mansion you can think of.

Man 5: damn!, I was thinking of a horrible mansion.

Mark: no, no, it is the best mansion ever. Not the one you are thinking of right now, but whatever the best mansion that you like, that is the one you gonna get.

The catholic community has seen the arrival this morning to the Vatican of a truck transporting the new Christ of Louis Vuitton.

The idea of the Vatican is to "update the image of Jesus, showing him on the cross wearing more dignifying, ellaborate clothes", as it was reported by the institution in a brief statement.

Continues (in Spanish): El Mundo Today: Jesucristo de Louis Vuitton »

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