Division of State and Church in respect to gender

Pink is what you get if you mix in blood - for example ‘Suffolk pink’ houses were pink from a mix of limewash and ox blood. So I guess a reason for red and pink on the battlefield.

Yup. Red is a manly colour associated with pre-camoflage military uniforms and fox hunting. Pink is red-lite, an appropriate "training wheels" form of red for a small boy.

Blue was associated with the Virgin Mary and so deemed an aspirational colour to dress girls in.

Not so fast. Pink is talking about historical issues and until last century pink was very definitely as masculine colour.

Has anyone checked the pink snake’s pronouns?

She's pink therefore she's ma'am

What more does the Goddess @ThisPinkWyvern want from us?

Has anyone checked the pink snake’s pronouns?

The requirements of Empress Kitty’s cult (my cat is called Empress Kitty) are very simple. She merely demands neck rubs and Dreamies from her worshippers.

Every now and then I fall apart...

And we are back to the cat cult ...

More info than I needed, but thanks anyway😘

I'm not too sure the pink snake's take on Christianity is accepted in the whole of the catholic Church.

Anyway, surely all the stuff pink snake said in them's post just means that, if you subscribe to Christianity, life on Earth is shit for women, (cos God said so) but in the afterlife, we're all humans, all equal?

Like most religions, it doesn't seem to be an attractive one for women, from my male perspective.

Sorry, about 50 years too late to be eligible to offer.

For myself I see the term 'catholic' as both indicating reform and also a church which accepts a wide range of worship.

In its context within the Nicene Creed it is definitely not reform but rather all the different churches that held together in unity over the doctrine as laid out in the creed, as opposed to the various heresies that had developed in the early church. So the catholic Church is the universal church that accepts these truths - ie churches from across southern Europe, North Africa, and Middle East,.

You’d need to check his pronouns first, @withthegreatestrespect.

Anyone got a male virgin to sacrifice?

I'm not nipping over to any incel forums to find one. I don't think I'd ever get clean again afterwards.

Alas the OP has abandoned us. We have sinned in some way. We embraced the scripture of John Thomas. We recited the verses of the Songs of the Nineties and performed the Hokey Cokey incantation. We worshipped Kitty's cat. What more does the Goddess @ThisPinkWyvern want from us?

Anyone got a male virgin to sacrifice?

Right band, wrong track. You're thinking of the "girls who want boys who like boys who do girls who do boys like they're girls who do girls like they're boys".

You turn around
That is what it’s all about.

NextRinny · Today 12:58

This is the way the thread ends,
Not with a bang but a whimper.

"From the burger joint round the corner,
Where the meals - thank Christ! - are skimpy,
Hot dogs direct from Crufts, done in diesel oil,
That's how your world could end,
Not with a bang, but Wimpy!"

I didn’t know that, thanks @NoBinturongsHereMate.

I do have suspicions that Kitty’s trying to establish a cult sometimes. If I ever find her preaching from the balcony while all the local cats are gathered below, I’ll know for sure.

So a monk who spends hours sitting down and can't throw you out is the best sort of monk:

There are various views on this point, depending on sect and region (Tibetan Buddhism, for example, wouldn't have got very far if it cut out any food groups - at that altitude you eat anything you can). And as Arabella says, most swcts agree alms should be accepted gracefully whatever they consist of.

So cats would be fine under the 'donated food' rule if they were believers. But they wouldn't follow Buddhism - any self respecting cat believes only in itself. It would be a matter of choosing the best place of worship to hang out, rather than picking an actual faith.

when you make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner,

In, out, in out, shake it all about…

Do people still do the Hokey Cokey?

I'm converted @ThisPinkWyvern Where do I sign up to get the stickers and flags?

Parklife

A metaphor for transgenderism

Not sure if other Catholics include the Apocrypha but Rome does (and theology students read them, from whatever denomination). Protestant churches ditched the lot at least for the laity. As to the Nicene creed, yes it says 'holy catholic and apostolic church'. Discussed this a couple of weeks ago and had various suggestions as to its meaning, from showing that the CofE (which uses the Nicene creed) is saying that it is a reformed catholic church to the meaning of 'catholic' as inclusive and wide-ranging, allowing divergence from practice (though not doctrine) which is certainly applicable to the CofE, where priests in berettas rub shoulders with ministers who won't even have an altar table for the sacrament. For myself I see the term 'catholic' as both indicating reform and also a church which accepts a wide range of worship.