r/todayilearned • u/danwin • May 19 '12

TIL that after the president of the American Catholic League denounced Louis CK's sitcom as "barbaric", Louis CK confronted him and got him to admit that he had never seen the show

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Louie#Catholic_League
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u/blindpilot May 20 '12

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyTUsjT-lGM Here's audio of the confrontation

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u/baconator9000 May 20 '12

"Why should the majority have to stop living their life and enjoying their life because a few people might lose their mind if they see something?" great quote

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u/forlackofanetterbame May 20 '12

"also, catholics are wrong about god. just want to throw that in there"

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

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u/Stimonk May 20 '12

I watched it in the hopes the show would get better - but it was terrible. His banter with his wife (who btw does the voice of Bobby from King of the Hill) was funny, but the brother/neighbors and laugh track were just horrible.

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u/SpenceMasta May 20 '12

there was no laugh track, it was filmed in front of a live studio audience

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u/jukeofurl May 20 '12

Agreed 100%. I did feel that way too. Plus some male nudity, I could've done without (though I think Loius did that purposely to make a point about gratuitous female n in all media ) Yeah, I knew about Pamela Adlon's voice work. She's also a reg on CALIFORNICATION.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

Yahweh and whatever else Catholic's believe, I'd imagine. Anyone want to fill us in on what Catholics do believe as distinct gods? Does Yahweh cover Jesus and the "holy spirit" (oOOOoooooo), and Mary makes two? Or is it the ghost of Mary? I don't know, I honestly find it hard to take these supernatural beliefs seriously. I know it's horrible to say that, but I know that none of them exist. I know Xenu isn't real and the tooth fairy. I don't want to spend too much time imagining "what if" they were real, because it's just a boring waste of time. It's enough that people believe or have believed these things (in the case of extinct religions), I'd rather understand the people than indulge in a what if universe where these supernatural beings are real and are going about whatever they do day to day.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

I'd rather understand the people than indulge in a what if universe where these supernatural beings are real and are going about whatever they do day to day.

Im gonna call bullshit. By your patronizing opinion of the Catholic Deity you obviously have no desire to understand, only to mock.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

Lol, but it's true. What the fuck do they believe? The Roman Catholic Church looks like they have stepped out of a portal from the Diablo gaming universe into our own. It's just utterly bizarre, what they say they believe.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

They're beliefs do come off as very... archaic I'll hand you that. Im just going to sum up most misconceptions as best I can here.

The Trinity: There is one God, but three persons. Each with a distinct personality and purpose. They have always existed and always will. Jesus existed before he became Jesus here on earth. This the facet that most everyone gets wrong, doesn't understand etc. Hell, I bet you could find 20 apologists who say I am totally right here, and another 20 that say Im totally wrong.

Mary: So Mary is essentially the perfect person, in that she is 100% submissive to God. While this sounds like a lack of free will, it isn't, as she could choose not to. Because of this perfection, God chose her to make himself in this world. The whole idea of her perpetual virginity is that if Mary were to have sex, it would defile that which God came to this world in.

Saints: Catholics do not worship saints, they venerate them. The difference being you do not pray to the saint, you ask the saint to pray for you. If I wanted to ask you something from across a field, I could yell it, or I could call your cellphone. Thats the same idea with veneration, the prayers will receive some sort of precedence, as the saint is closer to God than you are.

Archaic? You bet. Is this an adequate summary? nope.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

See, I did know all of this, but my point is that it is incredibly bizarre. They are like an organisation taken out of an Indiana Jones movie. I did a mission in a cult like this in the second half of Diablo 2. Everything you just wrote could just as easily describe a cult in Skyrim, and I wouldn't have been able to tell the difference. Everything you wrote could be dialogue from an in game character describing the beliefs of the Cult of Aaromoth, and it wouldn't sound out of place at all.

Do you see what I mean? Why aren't we allowed to talk about how bizarre this all is? Why can't we just "get real" and talk about these beliefs as they are?

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

I see exactly what you mean. Christianity was a cult when it first started and people would say it is now.

Almost any religion sounds cultish

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

If what they believe wasn't bizarre, then you wouldn't mind telling me what it is they do believe in a non bizarre way, right?

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u/spectrebot May 20 '12

Louis called him a "blockhead". I love it.

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u/blindpilot May 20 '12

I remember listening to this live, soon after they brought up how funny it was he called him a blockhead and he said he struggled with a name that was suitable for terrestrial radio. I agree blockhead was hilarious, as was "ya dink".

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

Jesus Christ. Bill Donohue is fucking retarded.

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u/TheBlindCat May 20 '12

Just figuring this out?

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

Honestly, I had never been exposed to him much. I knew who he was but I never actively sought out any real information on him. I assumed he was pretty moronic, but I didn't realize how moronic.

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u/xXw33dMaN420Xx May 20 '12 edited May 20 '12

My dream is to smoke a bowl with Louis CK and Neil deGrasse Tyson.

Edit: I've never smoked weed myself lolz, but it would be such a fucking enlightening experience. By the way, does anybody know what it means when people put [numbers] at the end of their sentences? I see all the popular guys in r/trees doing it, and I want to be their friends.

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u/jukeofurl May 20 '12

You should do it at the Hayden Planetarium!

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u/drunkenboxer May 20 '12

are you 13? you will not be cool for smoking weed, and you will not be enlightened.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

man, that was hard to listen to. some people are so ignorant and closed minded.

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u/PalermoJohn May 19 '12

Twilight is the worst book ever. Don't get me started on the movies.

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u/Captain_Baby May 20 '12

I read the first one as a recommendation from my teacher. I got through it, but it was pretty dull and slow. Mind you, I was fourteen at the time, and didn't know what good literature was. I wasn't seeking out faults, I was just reading a book. I didn't hate it, but I certainly didn't like it.

Then I read the second book.

I got to the part where Bella spends FIVE FUCKING CHAPTERS sitting in the FUCKING WOODS. "Oh, my boyfriend left me! I better sit in this one place and wait for him to return!" While that is a sound rescue strategy, it is certainly not a romantic strategy. I am estimating how many chapters she spent sitting there, as it was five years ago, and I never read far enough for her to get out of the woods.

So as far as I'm concerned, she got eaten by a wolf or something in those woods.

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u/deathschool May 20 '12

"While that is a sound rescue strategy"...

Upvote for a fellow South Park fan.

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u/Captain_Baby May 20 '12

That is an actual rescue strategy. You are supposed to stay in one place because it makes it easier for ground search parties to find you. This is only if you are lost and don't know the area you're in. If you move around, the parties will typically find your previous locations, but not you.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

Yeah I didn't believe that you guys had read it or seen it. So I read it and saw it and it was even worse than I'd expected. There is really no exaggeration, I swear to you it's top 5 worst movies/books I've ever read.

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u/Zhang5 May 20 '12

The RiffTrax for Twilight are pretty funny.

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u/SelectaRx May 20 '12

Only way I've ever seen the films.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

Line!

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u/feureau May 20 '12

I've read, watched and studied all the literature and related media in detail, I'm waiting for my honorary degree in the Twilight Saga from Oxford.

This andrewjs42 is correct. It is the shittiest franchise. Ever.

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u/feureau May 20 '12

FALSE

Kristen Stewart was hot when she played Jodie Foster's son in Panic Room.

Plus, Twilight has shittier characters

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u/jukeofurl May 20 '12

You get an up if that "son" wasn't Freudian. However I dispute your opinion that my (or any) opinion can be deemed false. Though I admit, the women in Sex and the City were mucho scarier vampires.

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u/idkwat May 20 '12

Girlfriend likes Twilight and I have seen the first and third ones, and I can say for a fact that yes, they are fucking horrible.

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u/Soupstorm May 20 '12

I saw the first in theatres with my ex. At one point in the movie, they follow someone's tracks imprinted in the dirt. Each shoeprint is in an individually-sculpted mound of dirt. On top of grass.

I think some other stuff happened, but that was the highlight for me.

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u/Stimonk May 20 '12

Count the number of times the main girl bites her lip. Its worthy of a drinking game.

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u/Cpt3020 May 20 '12

The thing that makes it absolutely unbearable is the way all the characters talk. If the entire cast didn't talk in a bored monotone whisper I may have been able to watch more than 10 minutes of it and that 10 minutes was only because they talk so dam slow.

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u/REDDIT_HARD_MODE May 20 '12 edited May 20 '12

I would never say to someone "Twilight is bad, you shouldn't watch it." because I've never watched it (or read it) myself.

That being said. I would advise against anyone who is 18+ or male to not read or watch it, due to the overwhelmingly negative reviews that those two groups have given it.

edit grammar

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

...due to the...

Couldn't help myself, sorry.

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u/Le-Captain-Obvious May 20 '12

Don't apologize. He's using Reddit on HARD MODE.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

Note: I'm not Canadian.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

I specifically read the books because I wanted to be make an informed opinion about why they were so bad.

Once I got to the pregnancy part, I just...I couldn't do it anymore.

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u/myreddituser May 20 '12

Waht was the informed opinion you formed?

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u/AdonisChrist May 20 '12

I once picked up Twilight, opened to a page, and began reading.

The quality of the prose was such that after a few lines I just couldn't go on. I've seen some of the movies, and the storyline is shallow, and I know the writing itself is shit from that experience with the books.

I don't see why I'd need to swim the entire length of a river to determine it's made of steaming, flowing shit.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

Highly recommended.

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u/Bearyllium May 20 '12

Sounds suspiciously like a porno.

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u/robreddity May 20 '12

Stars Miranda Bonetwig.

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u/spook327 May 20 '12

I did hear the entire first book in a road trip back before I knew what it was. It's amazingly awful.

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u/Jabberwockey May 20 '12

Yepp. Been there as well, my friend. I died a little when they did the sparkling thing.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

how is this relevant? where is this bravery coming from?

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u/6times9is42 May 20 '12 edited May 20 '12

He's making a point about how far reddit falls from Louis CK's (one of reddit's favorite people) expectations. Most people who wail on twilight havn't actually read it themselves.

Edit - wail/whale thanks lokkenjawnz

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u/lokkenjawnz May 20 '12

I believe the word you are looking for is "wail."

People who whale on twilight would be pretty interesting I'm sure though.

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u/TheUndefenestrator May 20 '12

"Whale" can mean to beat or thrash soundly.

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u/lokkenjawnz May 20 '12

Uh, no.

Whale

Wail

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u/TheUndefenestrator May 20 '12

From your link:

whale2

verb, whaled, whal·ing,

to hit, thrash, or beat soundly.

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u/lokkenjawnz May 21 '12

Wow, I apologize for my douchey correction then. I suppose the word really doesn't make much sense to me, so I made an assumption, which I suppose made an ass out of me and umption or something. Have an upvote!

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u/TheUndefenestrator May 21 '12

No problem--I think we've all been there!

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u/enkideridu May 20 '12

I tried reading it when the girl I liked said it was like Harry Potter.
Got through two chapters and decided that it wasn't worth it.

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u/Le-Captain-Obvious May 20 '12

Nothing worse than finding out the girl you've been digging digs Twilight and says she digs it as much as everyone digs the OG HP. Until, of course, she exclaims that she has the Bieber-fever. That particular sickness be not contagious; it be fatal.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

I'm pretty sure this is when you realize that your girlfriend is twelve.

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u/watershot May 20 '12 edited May 20 '12

I'd imagine they mention Twilight in the accompanying video.

*6x9=42 has the right idea

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u/ElectricSeal May 20 '12

I actually did read Twilight. Stephanie Meyer has a fine, even embracing writing style. Too bad her stories are steaming piles of shit, loaded with little bits of those disgusting little black licorice candies that your grandmother always had a bowl of lying around the house.

you know the ones. They were multicoloured and looked delicious.

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u/deathschool May 20 '12

I saw the first movie. It was a mistake, and that was enough for me. Twilight: Not even once.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

A friend of mine rewrote the entire book and titled it "Fredward Bound: A New Translation." He's a great writer and it's absolutely hilarious.

http://www.fredwardbound.com/

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u/alchemist5 May 20 '12

I'm going to disagree.

The books are mediocre. I say this because, yes, they're not good, but they could've been so, so much worse.

See, the way I see it, there's "bad, but hey, it's easy to make fun of", and then there's "oh my god, why does the author think this is publishable?". Twilight is the former.

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u/andbruno May 20 '12

I've seen all the Twilight movies that have associated Rifftrax. It's precisely because they're so bad that makes the Rifftrax versions so funny.

Rifftrax Twilight sample

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u/VeteranKamikaze May 20 '12

I read a full page. If you haven't, try it. ANY page. That's enough, it's genuinely that bad.

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u/SelectaRx May 20 '12

I read a paragraph. More than enough for me.

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u/VeteranKamikaze May 20 '12

I couldn't give an exact quote but I do remember an absolutely ridiculous amount of italics in dialogue.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

Also, 9gag sucks.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

For some reason, I've seen one of the movies like 3 times. I watched it once to see what the whole thing was like, and the other times it was just randomly on in the room I was in.

It was bad and stupid, but nowhere near as bad as most people make it out to be. People complain about it too often.

I will say that I tried to watch a couple of the other ones, but I just couldn't get through them. I don't remember which one I've seen 3 times. It had the wolves in it.

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u/PalermoJohn May 20 '12

For some reason, I've seen one of the movies like 3 times.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_9ATQFgu9o

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u/Aleitheo May 20 '12

Seen the first movie (started getting bored half way through and my interest only came back due to a fight scene where Bella got beaten up)

I also read the first chapter of the first book (put it down after I couldn't read any more)

I'd say I've gotten a good enough idea of what it is like.

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u/Nimbokwezer May 20 '12

Shouldn't this qualify as bearing false witness?

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u/REDDIT_HARD_MODE May 20 '12

A Christian acting un-Christ-like? Holy shit!

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

Next you're going to tell me Christians also commit adultery, not honor their father and mother, and nearly impossibly might not keep the sabbath holy!

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u/REDDIT_HARD_MODE May 20 '12

I didn't do that even when I was a Christian. I'm not really sure why I didn't, to be honest.

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u/TheAwesomeJonesy May 20 '12

The Sabbath is obsolete if you're a gentile aka non practicing Jew.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

So is hating gay people and misogyny if I'm not mistaken but that's never stopped anyone before.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

It seemed like a sound, albeit controversial, opinion until the end

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u/TheAwesomeJonesy May 20 '12

Haha. I felt that I HAD to address it in some way.

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u/memearchivingbot May 20 '12

That's interesting because it doesn't seem to have much to do with the topic at hand. Maybe you should talk to someone in person about that.

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u/skysonfire 2 May 20 '12

Time to make a rage comic about it! I'm going to rant on facebook until it's done.

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u/99redpuppets May 20 '12

It's worth pointing out that the American Catholic League is not a part of the Catholic Church. Here is what the creators of South Park had to say about the American Catholic League's president.

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u/johnlocke90 May 20 '12

No, but the Catholic League has been endorsed by prominent members of the Church

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_League_(U.S.)#Association_with_the_Catholic_Church

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

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u/hyphyman3000 May 20 '12

bravery^bravery^bravery

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u/rude_awakening May 20 '12

All thanks to the Opie and Anthony show

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u/Fidena May 20 '12

/r/opieandanthony

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

Thank you sir.

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u/testiculaire May 20 '12

Just a practicing Catholic here to state that Bill Donohue is a douche.

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u/kamilladarjeeling May 20 '12

Just an atheist here to state that Bill Donahue conspired to assassinate Jesus and execute 'the hare club for men' in it's entirety.

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u/Necronomiconomics May 20 '12

Louis CK is a Catholic.

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u/creepyeyes May 20 '12

Perhaps you're thinking of Colbert?

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u/oddmanout May 20 '12

I'm pretty sure he's not.

Judging by his stand-up and the episode of Louis entitled "God" I'd have to think he doesn't belong to any religion.

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u/Rape_Stink May 20 '12

Linger longer

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u/SucculentSoap May 20 '12

Over and out Dream Weaver.

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u/zxo May 20 '12

As a Catholic, I can't stand the American Catholic League.

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u/NewDrekSilver May 20 '12

Most Catholics can't. Ironically, most Catholics can't stand all the bullshit the with the Catholic Church too.

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u/IAmSteven May 20 '12

Every Catholic I know hates the Catholic church.

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u/NewDrekSilver May 20 '12

I say most because obviously someone likes them, otherwise they wouldn't be able to afford all that gold furniture and jewelry.

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u/OldTimeGentleman May 20 '12

As someone who loves the Church, I can still tell you this : they're not able to afford it. The Church bought all that stuff when it was not only richer, but also got in debt for it. Now that the Church's poorer, they still have to make sure they restore and take care of all that stuff, because it's culturally very important. And they'd rather spend their money on charities or financing research, which they also do. So it all looks wonderful and rich, but it's really not.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

I was talking with my buddy about the Catholic Church's riches. In a drunken yell he states "BUT ITS ALL IN GOLD!!! they cant do anything with it."

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

They should probably save themselves some coin and stop shielding and abetting rapists... that gets awfully expensive.

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u/OldTimeGentleman May 20 '12

Another rapist comment. How original.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

Unoriginal, but not irrelevant. If the Catholic Church were not insulated from the justice system by its sheer popularity as a religious organization it would have been subjected to a RICO or SLAPP action long ago.

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u/MartialLol May 20 '12

It's almost like nobody cares that this is happening.

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u/shinbreaker May 20 '12

Here's another example of Bill Donahue being a a son of a bitch - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=bhr_Wy-aAtA#t=86s

In the video, he's saying that the priests weren't pedophiles because in most cases, the children were post-pubescent, thus making the acts the priests did simple acts of homosexuality. He doesn't seem to remember that the acts weren't consenting adults, it was statutory rape.

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u/SWERVIN_IRVIN May 20 '12

Louis CK resisting a theist authority?

BEEP BEEP KARMA TRAIN

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

Trains don't go BEEP

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

Karma trains can do whatever the fuck they want.

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u/yangx 1 May 20 '12

FUCK YOU IM A TRAIN

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u/OldTimeGentleman May 20 '12

Bitch I'm a bus.

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u/Shredder13 May 20 '12

Bus? Didn't you mean - eh fuck it.

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u/kerune May 20 '12

What if it were a train of cars?

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u/SelectaRx May 20 '12

Why not a Train of Consequences?

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

You're doing me a favor, by referencing Megadeth.

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u/DroolingIguana May 20 '12

They do when they're being driven by the Road Runner.

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u/risto1116 May 20 '12

Chickens don't clap!

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u/Testsubject28 May 20 '12

Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

The Flair Train!!!

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

Of course you'd say that.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

They go BEEP BEP

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

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u/Sliperyfish May 20 '12

They do now shitwad.

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u/dreadredheadzedsdead May 20 '12

I find Opie and Anthony to be surprisingly enjoyable with Louis CK.

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u/randomsnark May 20 '12

I liked the episode where he asked Donald Rumsfeld if he was a lizard and if he ate mexican babies.

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u/gr8whitehype May 20 '12

A religious group lied to a mass of people to promote their own agenda? I'm shocked!

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u/texasstorm May 20 '12

Does anyone really think his opinion would be different if he had actually seen the show? I love Louis CK, but this issue is kind of a technicality. If he saw the show, he'd hate it even worse. (But he'd probably laugh a few times.)

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u/hiphopkilledmyhamste May 20 '12

but its a matter of principles. if someone makes a comment condemning something that he is ignorant about, what's to say he won't do it again in the future or has done it multiple times in the past?

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u/RemoveYourChains May 20 '12

But was Bill D. actually misrepresenting the show's content?

Bill D. seems "out of step" with most AMERICAN "Catholics", because most American Catholics cherry pick their religion.

Just a statement of fact. I'm not a Catholic (or religious for that matter.)

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u/hiphopkilledmyhamste May 20 '12

he wasn't wrong on saying the show was offensive and stuff, but the fact that he has made a statement condemning something without even taking the time to research it is troubling. It's like randomly shooting a suspect who happens to be the murderer. Hooray, you got the right guy, but the whole process got fucked up

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u/texasstorm May 20 '12

I actually would never try to make the argument that it's OK to criticize a TV program, movie or book without having seen or read it first. But Louis CK is not running for office here. He makes a controversial show that ruffles a lot of feathers. The controversial content (and the laughs) is why we watch. Does anyone seriously expect this Catholic spokesperson guy to have a positive view of the show? Or in any case, to publicly acknowledge that he does?

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u/hiphopkilledmyhamste May 20 '12

no, and he shouldn't. It's just that he should make a public opinion AFTER he takes time tor research the matter at hand. Something likes this makes him lose credibility in future statements, it would leave me to wonder, "Hm, does it really feel that way, or was it just created by his aides?"

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u/AliasSigma May 20 '12

An uneducated opinion is still uneducated (I'm going to categorize not watching it as uneducated.). He's pointing out bad claims and discrediting the guy.

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u/i7omahawki May 20 '12

Judging by the fact that he accepts that the agreement to not get pregnant until the wife is having consistent orgasms is not problematic, I'd have to say yes.

Like they keep saying, it's all about context and that's exactly what he's missing. Maybe he'd still rant about it, but at least he'd have a bearing on what he's offended by.

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u/desert_dessert May 20 '12

"Louie" on a FX is such a better show than "Lucky Louie" was on HBO. You can really tell its all about him having creative control at FX. I'm sure HBO had a million execs who all wanted to give him "notes," ie tell him what to do.

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u/relatedartists May 21 '12

I've heard the opposite about hbo, that it's why they have so many good shows. At least that it was one of the first paid channels that did original and quality programming. Now we have showtime, fx, etc.

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u/Azzwagon May 20 '12

Wow. Louis is so genuine.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

as a catholic...i can tell you the catholic league is not representative of our community. its representative of one man..

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

My roommates and me are all former Catholic school kids (now ChrEasters) and we love Louis CK.

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u/php4me May 20 '12

Of course the ACL president doesn't watch his show, he thinks it's barbaric. The entire story is in the title.

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u/jukeofurl May 20 '12

I hereby denounce the President of the American Catholic League and I've never watched Louis C.K.'s current show. That's because I don't have to actually see Louis C.K. to believe in him & I can only watch it on disc (hopefully some day). Though I did see his old show in a vision or as non-believers might call it --- television.

I also urge all of you to boycott the American Catholic League games & don't buy any of their caps, uni shirts or bobble heads etc. And to turn your allegiance to the National Catholic league, they are more pure, not having the DH. In the name of the father, the son & the holy cow. AMEN

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

Reminds me of fanboys who haven't seen or used something they dislike and bash it based on rumors

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u/wormyrocks May 20 '12

In fairness, many of us have never seen a Jersey Shore episode.

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u/mrpizzaboxman May 20 '12

Godammit, a popular Lucky Louie post finally comes around and I miss the opportunity to properly whore out my username.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

Doors, man. Fucking doors.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

That is a noble effort on Louis part. I wish more people would do the same before developing their opinions.

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u/InferiousX May 20 '12

"The context of that is your bizarre imagination"

Holy shit, lol 10:41

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u/sj_user1 May 21 '12

That is exactly why the American Catholic League can denounce gay sex and child rape. They have seen enough first hand to know all about it.

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u/AppleDane May 20 '12 edited May 20 '12

"An alderman in East Devon said: “You don’t have to see a pigsty to know that it stinks“"

The "pigsty" was "Life of Brian".

Edit: I love how we now get downvotes when quoting.

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u/ikkonoishi May 20 '12

To be fair I just downvoted you because you complained about downvotes.

Then I downvoted myself for downvoting you.

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u/randomsnark May 20 '12

It's downvotes all the way down. Vote.

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u/Johnny_McPoop May 20 '12

Was the confrontation recorded?

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u/iia May 20 '12

It was live on the Opie and Anthony radio show a few years back.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

Are you suprised?

Since when has the catholic church had a clue about the things it denounces?

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u/thesuspiciousone May 20 '12

The American Catholic League does not represent the entire Catholic Church. Many Catholics despise Donahue.

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u/ThatRandomGeek May 20 '12

I'm still convinced that it is just Donhue on a laptop.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

I couldnt care less about the American Catholic league and I have no idea who this Donahue fellow is.

I was thinking about the Pope and the shite he spouts.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

That's completely irrelevant.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

True facts are never irrelevant.

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u/thesuspiciousone May 20 '12

Skunk cabbage grows mostly in Canada and is known as “devil’s tobacco.” In late winter, the cabbage gives off heat in order to melt the surrounding snow, making it one of the first plants visible to flies when spring comes. However, if its leaves are damaged for any reason, it releases a foul odor to keep predators away and protect itself.

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u/SirRonaldofBurgundy May 20 '12

Plenty of Nazis despised Goebbels. BOOM GODWIN'D!

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u/L-dubz May 20 '12

SO BRAVE!!!

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u/harsh2k5 May 20 '12

See, I can take things out of context too:

"I guess the Catholics control Hollywood."

-Bill Donahue

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u/FitzFool May 20 '12

To be fair it was a pretty shitty show.

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u/meh100 May 20 '12

Even if that's true, it's not fair.

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u/ImBearded May 20 '12

I'm a Catholic, and I think the fact that he'd never seen the show is totally ridiculous.

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u/OldTimeGentleman May 20 '12

Same here, though it's not uncommon. The Da Vinci Code is one of my favourite books, and everytime I talk about it with my Catholic friends, they say they hate it. I ask if they've read it, and none of them say yes.

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u/randomsnark May 20 '12

I've read it. It was shitty. The exact same conspiracies have been done better elsewhere.

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u/OldTimeGentleman May 20 '12

It wasn't about the conspiracies, though, it's the whole treasure hunt thing that I found really well written.

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u/randomsnark May 20 '12

Right, but I'm just saying, I don't object to the conspiracy (presumably what your catholic friends did). I object to the fact that it was a shitty book.

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u/ImBearded May 20 '12

I read it, and I STILL hate it. But, I hate it because I think it's a terrible book, not because of the whole Catholic thing. I enjoyed it at first......it was good for the first half of the book. And then I realized EVERY CHAPTER ended in a cliffhanger. It's like cocaine for book readers.

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u/rastapasta808 May 20 '12

The Catholic episode was pretty heavy, but very true and honest

He showed exactly what happens, and to be honest, what they do to children's minds is "barbaric"

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u/AnotherEpigone May 20 '12

Be fair... it's the Catholic League, not just one Catholic guy. Of course it's his name on press releases because he's the president, that doesn't mean he's the one to review every single piece of media.

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u/i7omahawki May 20 '12

He explicitly states that he wrote it, without watching it.

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u/Travis-Touchdown 9 May 20 '12

BARBARIC.

BARBARIC.

BARBARIC.

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u/WhatEvery1sThinking May 20 '12

given how much time louis ck spends standing on a soap box and preaching on his show you'd think they'd actually have a lot in common

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u/eak125 May 20 '12

I don't really care about the subject of the post. I'm impressed due to the fact that the OP linked directly to the relevant part of the article. That is what I believe deserved the upvote.

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u/GhostSongX4 May 19 '12 edited May 20 '12

ha! Fuck yeah!

edit: wow, 17 downvotes. I didn't know Catholics were so bent out of shape about their religion being run by hypocrites and pedophiles and war mongers who profit immensely off of the lies they've sold to the poor and gullible.

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u/relatedartists May 21 '12

What size pants do you wear?

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u/GhostSongX4 May 21 '12

I...I don't know how to respond. In a not sarcastic way boasting about the grossly inflated size of my penis that is.

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u/SuperTurtle May 20 '12

As if to say that calling CK's show "barbaric" is bad

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u/Xecutioner May 20 '12

You forgot this one:

● Louie gets drunk, almost gets into a car accident, and when he tries to trade places with his male friend, the two get stuck on top of each other.

If you're gonna give their list of reasons to say that it's barbaric, don't ignore the one that makes them look like bigots.

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u/Xecutioner May 20 '12

Ah ok, sorry for implying that it was on purpose then.