Robin Williams Attacks Catholic Priests and Points Out Lack of Consequences

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Never thought Robin Williams was funny, not even on Mork & Mindy. He is your usual Hollywood actor who tells others how to live while he does what he wants.
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Beowulf said:
Never thought Robin Williams was funny, not even on Mork & Mindy. He is your usual Hollywood actor who tells others how to live while he does what he wants.
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There is a market for hatred. I wonder how we can persuade Williams to star in Michael Moore’s next ‘documentary’? Thoughts anyone?
 
Ani_Ibi said:
There is a market for hatred. I wonder how we can persuade Williams to star in Michael Moore’s next ‘documentary’? Thoughts anyone?
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I don’t think much persuasion would be required.
 
Today, the papers are publishing reviews of that flick here in Vancouver. They are all bad, ranging from a horrible movie to an utter waste of time.

It seems that even popular prejudice must be manifested artistically before even the media will comment favourably on it. That, at least, is a bit refreshing. Mind you, no one made much of the mockery of marriage and clergy, as distinct from actual comedy.

Blessings,

Gerry
 
Tom317 said:
It is simple. When a person working for a company makes vile statements to a national audience, and the company decides to air the tape, and the company’s reps (Jay Leno and producers) do nothing to stop or even tone down the vile statements, then said company is giving direct support of the bigoted trash. It makes no difference if during other events the company was a bit more favorable.

If RW had said something truly horrible and deeply offensive about women, or minorities (think Imus here), Jay Leno and NBC would never have allowed it to air, or they would have at the very least cleaned it up for airing. Yet, the subject of RW’s perverse and sick humor was the Church and the faith, so it was considered okay to air the entire skit. That is anti-Catholocism in action, and NC/Jay Leno and RW are guilt of it.
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The dollar bill says in God we trust, it might as well say in the American Dollar we trust.
 
I believe a letter to the TV Station is best,though you can always follow up with an e-mail,using a secondary e-mail address.I think, if it goes to the TV Station,it gets seen by more people in the Studio than the guilty party would like.
Billy Connolly,a while back,came away with a crude remark about a guy who was abducted in Iraq,when doing one of his comedy routines.The Press got on to it,Billy was none too pleased and even denied it.However,someone in the audience confirmed he did make the remark.It was along the lines that the abductors should get on with it.I think Billy thought,because of the location of his performance,he would get away with it.
I’m glad to be told of Robin Williams.I’ll make a point of switching him off.Please do the same with Connolly and his Australian wife, Pam Stephenson.She used to be a comedienne i wouldn’t have
watched with my Mum in the room,but nowadays she is some sort of psychologist.
 
British TV Chat Show Host,Matthew Wright,a lapsed catholic,has slagged off catholicism but seems to have toned it down.
Nevertheless,sometimes one of his guests will do his dirty work for him.
Matthew has been associated with the Sun newspaper,though he puts himself about as a Liberal.His column in the right-wing Sun
was to do with entertainment.A Soap Star once emptied his drink over Matthew’s head because he didn’t like what was said about him in Matthew’s column.
Far be it from me to suggest that one of you do the same to Robin Williams.
 
It’s another case where an actor/commedian steps out of his zany character to prove that he’s as fallible and fallen as anybody else.

I’ve run into a couple people who are as quick-witted as he is, and I’m amazed at that ability to think, speak, type, etc. so fast. But, it’s amazing that I find such people have that gift but not the gift of faith that we would wish for them.

It would be great to find someone who actually had both of those gifts.
 
imagine if a newspaper included a blurb about a group of catholics who were so offended at robin william’s antics that they …

imagine if it was picked up by another newspaper and a few online sites…

imagine if a magazine, website, newspaper, or even tv news did an interview with one of the participants…

imagine if the same thing happened again with another celebrity…

and another celebrity…

imagine if the studios started to take notice…

maybe then hollywood might think twice before attacking the Church of Our Lord. and all it took was some real action by some faithful Catholics.

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maybe this minister role of his in this movie, with it making its debut soon, combined with his defamation of our Fathers, is a prime opportunity to get the ball rolling?

i can see it now. the big movie premier of License to Wed and as all the news cameras and media are there, a group of Catholic protesters get noticed…

btw it looks like we aren’t the only ones who got offended google.com/search?num=&q=robin+williams+minister%2C+catholic&btnG=Search
 
Perhaps Robin Williams would like a collection of links to articles telling us of celebrity scandals as well as articles which involve non-catholic clergy like the one in today’s Scottish Sunday Mail about the married Church of Scotland Minister who trawls for sex with men on a porn site.Of course,Robin would probably tell us the fib about celebrities not pretending to aspire to better values,like the priest does.In fact,they revel in publicity while it helps their career,but throw tantrums etc.when the publicity is unfavourable.Then we get the sob story that they are battling inner demons.I have my inner demon,deafness which
has held me back career-wise,but because my depression has not taken me to the point of suicide i don’t get a lot of sympathy.
Politicians talk a lot about helping with disability,but it is “pie in the sky”.Much is said about doing things to enable the disabled get access to various places,but that is not enough if disabled people cannot get access to jobs.It is worth mentioning that,after the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,once very fit young people are going to be presenting themselves for jobs with an arm or a leg missing.Sorry about the digression about the disabled,but it needed to be said.A Christian society should be lobbying the politicians a lot more.See link below.You don’t have to scroll down far to find the story about the guy in the biker’s cap.

sundaymail.co.uk/news/
 
Where’s deep in the ozarks?Even in Scotland ,we have heard of Robin Williams
 
burnside said:
Where’s deep in the ozarks?Even in Scotland ,we have heard of Robin Williams
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In the Ozarks, we don’t spend a lot of time discussing people who have nothing to say, nothing to offer, and can’t play the banjo.😃
 
yawn.
i think that nobody has really talked about robin williams for a while so he thought 'what could i do to get my name out there again?"
i also agree that he is not funny.
 
I am surprised at the number of posters here who have stooped to lashing out at Williams by trying to say various denigrations about his character. Granted, questions can be asked about the wisdom of his comments; but the charges such as “anti-Catholic” and similar comments are equally out of bounds.

Whether it is Catholic or Protestant; if their leaders do something against the law; it is going to be the brunt of bar room jokes for a long time. What Williams did is nothing new. 25 years ago when I used to drink and carry on, Catholic priests were the brunt of similar jokes we used to tell each other. We certainly weren’t all “anti-catholic;” but according to most posters here, we would have this and other heinous labels attached to us for repeating such “jokes.”

To me; Protestant and Catholic alike need to shape up and eliminate the reasons that people have to say such “humor” and dispense with retorting in the same spirit, and trying to make them look so bad. Remember, most of us used to be just like that before we became Christians.
 
Robin Williams focuses on pedophile priests but he does not allude to the base cause of pedophilia which is HOMOSEXUALITY.

If he is going to slam priests why doesn;t he connect them with homosexuality? He totally excludes that condition in his “humor.”

It is hypocricy at its lowest.

That’s Hollywood for you.
 
johnstown_johnn said:
Robin Williams focuses on pedophile priests but he does not allude to the base cause of pedophilia which is HOMOSEXUALITY.
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I’m not sure I understand. Are you suggesting that pedophiles are always gay? What about the women who seduce young boys? Are you suggesting that all homosexuals are pedophiles? I hope not! What exactly are you saying in your above, quoted statement?
 
boppaid said:
I’m not sure I understand. Are you suggesting that pedophiles are always gay? What about the women who seduce young boys? Are you suggesting that all homosexuals are pedophiles? I hope not! What exactly are you saying in your above, quoted statement?
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Priests that molest young boys are pedophiles and are also homosexuals.

The other scenario is pedophilia.

Robin Williams did nor underscore the homosexual nexus in his parodies. Most likely because homosexuality is an accepted behacior and is beco0ming a political force in America.

Sodom and Gomorrah was destroyed because explicity homosexuality. It could happen to America if it advances to the point of “respect.”
 
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