Barking (mad) for Jesus

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St Peter's Anglican Church in Toronto has been deluged with complaints from Christians all over Canada. Why? Because the vicar gave Holy Communion to a dog. Dogs are clearly not part of their god's creation, it seems!

The priest gave the Host – a bizarre ritual where Christians eat the body of Jesus Christ – to an Alsatian cross called Trapper. Donald Keith, the dog's owner, said he had taken his pet to the church because he had been told animals were welcome. He said that because he was newcomer the vicar invited him up in person to receive communion.

"The minister welcomed me and said come up and take communion, and Trapper came up with me and the minister gave him communion as well," said Mr Keith. "Then he bent his head and said a little prayer," Mr Keith said.
"I thought it was a nice way to welcome me into the church," he said. "I thought it was acceptable." He added: "There was an old lady in the front just beaming when she saw this.

"Ninety nine-point-nine per cent of the people in the church love Trapper and the kids play with him." He said one member of the congregation was unhappy about the vicar giving the dog communion and complained to the archbishop, Colin Johnson. The dog has since been banned from receiving the sacrament.


Religion can be so entertaining.


Down boy!

[Dex]

12% of people have no sense of humor when it comes to politics or religion, but they are the loudest so it seems like more.

[mouse]

my oh my...of course the vicar should have know better...in that the dog had not been confirmed thiu not a member of the anglican communions...and thus taking the symbolic body and blood without the pror requiremnets would be frowned on

oh woof bloody woof

[Jessiealan]

Why did he give the dog communion. He could have patted him on the head. No need to go over the top. Stupid of the vicar.

[Erasmus]

It's rather remeniscent of those mediaeval trials of animals (and even occasionally inanimate objects) for ill-doing. If a ritual means anything to its celebrants, it is not to be desecrated by including animals for which it means nothing. Maybe this 'priest' will want to marry the man to his dog next? I only hope it didn't get a slug of wine drom the communal chalice as well!

[Wonder Woman]

Hmmph. Just after moving to CA, I was passed over for communion because the church here hadn't approved me.......... but a dog gets it. ROFL

Was the blood of christ shed for dogs, too?

[Erasmus]

I certainly resent belief that it was shed for me as some sort of second-hand human sacrifice! I find that whole idea monstrous and obscene though I can identify with the mythic concept that the world's evil destroys the Perfect Human who is The Image of Divinity.(Aren't we all?) But the orthodox view is like saying that instead of Gandhi's assassination resulting from nationalist objections to his idealism, it was a human sacrifice that forever appeased and annihilated nationalism - as long as we believe it did. If we believe it did, then for us then of course it did, but that's our own internal feeling, nothing to do with the world's politics.

I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night,
Alive as you or me
Says I, "But Joe, you're ten years dead,"
"I never died," says he
"I never died," says he
"In Salt Lake, Joe," says I to him,
Him standing by my bed,
"They framed you on a murder charge,"
Says Joe, "But I ain't dead,"
Says Joe, "But I ain't dead."
"The copper bosses killed you, Joe,
They shot you, Joe," says I.
"Takes more than guns to kill a man,"
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Says Joe, "I didn't die."
And standing there as big as life
And smiling with his eyes
Joe says, "What they forgot to kill
Went on to organize,
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"Joe Hill ain't never died.
Where working men are out on strike
Joe Hill is at their side,
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"From San Diego up to Maine,
In every mine and mill,
Where workers strike and organize,"
Says he, "You'll find Joe Hill,"
Says he, "You'll find Joe Hill."
I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night,
Alive as you or me
Says I, "But Joe, you're ten years dead,"
"I never died," says he
"I never died," says he

"When two or three are gathered together in my name, then I am with them"

Joe Hill is living still, Jesus the Christ is living still They have a lot in common.

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Jul 27, 2010 20:27:01 GMT -5 Wonder Woman said:

Hmmph. Just after moving to CA, I was passed over for communion because the church here hadn't approved me.......... but a dog gets it. ROFL

Was the blood of christ shed for dogs, too?

That depends on which branch of the lunacy you follow

[mouse]

its all crackers