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Archbishop blasts the mockery of a Catholic saint in a Spanish poster

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IN September Barcelona will host one of the largest festivals in Spain — the La Mercè Festival —named after Maria de la Mercè (Our Lady of Mercy), the city’s patron saint.

By promoting it with a newly-designed poster, the Barcelona City Council has invoked the wrath of Cardinal Juan José Omella, the archbishop of Barcelona and his cohorts, in the city’s Archdiocese who claimed in a statement that:

It irreverently uses various religious forms with the intention of ridiculing the image of the Virgin Mary.

They all need to go to SpecSavers. Mary doesn’t feature in the poster. But, hey, imagining things that don’t exist is the foundation upon which all religions rest.

The poster, created by set designer and film director Lluís Danés is intended as a tribute to traveling theater and to capture the essence of the world of acting and performance. The festival is largely secular in nature.

But the pricks in the archbishopric insisted that it that it “violates the feelings of those who venerate” the saint.

Barcelona City Council politely told the archdiocese to go fuck themselves, saying it defends “the creative freedom of the author” and insists that “under no circumstances has it been inspired by any religious motif or figure …”

Religion is heading to oblivion in Spain

Spaniards have as much use of Omella as his ilk as dolphins need umbrellas.

According to this report, Spain has the largest net losses for Christians in percentage terms of 27 countries analysed.

The vast majority of all Spanish adults surveyed (87 percent) say they were raised Christian. But far fewer (54 percent) describe themselves as Christians today — a net loss for Christianity of one-third of all Spanish adults (that is, 33 percent of the total adult population, not just of current Christians).

This loss has occurred because 36 percent of Spanish adults have left Christianity (ie, they were raised Christian but no longer identify as such) while just three percent of Spanish adults have embraced Christianity (ie, they identify as Christians today but say they were not raised that way).

Here’s an anecdote that proves how little respect that the Spanish for religion.

I frequent a bar — Secret Encounter — in Benidorm, located opposite a sex shop. Above the store is a figure of the “Virgin” Mary. Last week a group of about a dozen little old Spanish women were strolling by. One glanced up, saw Mary, burst out laughing, reached for her phone and snapped a shot. Others in the group did the same after she drew their attention to the ludicrous placement of Jesus’ mum, and the street echoed, from one end to the other, with their raucous laughter.

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4 responses to “Archbishop blasts the mockery of a Catholic saint in a Spanish poster”

  1. stephenharvie Avatar
    stephenharvie

    My hurt feelings! Boo hoo!

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  2. malcolmjdodd Avatar
    malcolmjdodd

    The Roman Catholic Sleaze Corporation saint’s money-making-scam is based on the fantastical claims of miracles peddled to their suckers, a superb subject for the highest level of ridicule.

    The biggest money-raising scam is Lourdes, each year over 5 million people eschew science and medicine when they visit the ‘Immaculate Con(ception)’ seeking woo-woo cures; over 167 years, 72 miracles have been ‘declared supernatural’ by the RCSC, the last occurred in 2009: Lourdes has been ‘curing’ at the rate of one person every 2.3 years, that is 1 in every 11,000,000 of the credulous – surprisingly, the RCSC do not publish how many of the 10,999,999 die as a result of their travels!

    Knock, Knock, who’s there? Another RCSC money-making scam, via the Knock airport in the Republic of Ireland, the airport was created for the sole purpose of helping the Vatican coffers, by fleecing the gullible at the site of the 1879 Knock Apparition.

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    1. barriejohn Avatar
      barriejohn

      I remember the extensive and nauseating news coverage of fraudster Mother Teresa’s visit to Knock in 1993. I believe it was there that she made the mind-boggling claim to the gathered throng that “Mary loves Ireland SO much”. It’s pure mumbo jumbo!

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      1. malcolmjdodd Avatar
        malcolmjdodd

        I hadn’t realised that the RCSC chief bitch had visited Knock. Many years ago in Calcutta, my agent and I tried to visit the Albanian bitch’s torture chamber (hospital where drugs were withheld because god told her that it was good for the ill poor to suffer), we knock, knocked and who was there – no answer.

        No suffering for the pope’s chief fundraiser, she died in the luxury of a hospital in the USA.

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