Gary Glitter announces conversion to Catholicism

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Gary Glitter announces conversion to Catholicism

By Michael Marshall

Seventies rocker Gary Glitter yesterday spoke out against the ‘petty gossip’ surrounding his convictions for child molestation, while announcing his surprise conversion to Catholicism.

Speaking at a lavish baptism ceremony, the paedophile singer decried the idle chitchat regarding his many proven offences against children from the UK, Cambodia and Vietnam.

“It saddens me that my critics feel the need to tarnish my name with this petty, entirely-accurate and demonstrably-true gossip regarding my repeated crimes against children.”

“Just because something terrible definitely happened, doesn’t give you the right to go on and on about it all the bloody time.”

Conversion

The announcement of Glitter’s new-found devotion to the Pope and all things ‘Catholic’ may come as something of a surprise to his legions of fans.

Having already been found guilty of abusing minors, a religious conversion appears to make almost no sense at all to those who have followed his career.

But, as the singer explains, the more he read about the modern Catholic Church, the more he knew it was the one for him.

Glitter explained to waiting reporters, “I’ve never really been a religious man, because I’ve never before felt that religion really gets my way of life and who I am.”

“But now, I realise what I’ve been missing: the peace, the love, and - above all - the no-questions-asked protection the Catholic Church can offer.”

Glitter, who sought refuge in Asia following discovery of his extensive child pornography collection in 1999, also took time out from the baptism ceremony to formally confirm details of an upcoming comeback tour.

“Having been off the tour circuit for a while, a comeback is long overdue. I’m thinking Germany, Ireland, Austria, Italy, Malta and the US before ending with a spectacular finale in Vatican City.”

“From what I’ve read, I think I’ll be welcomed with open arms, not least by the leaders of my new faith. Pope Benedict - I definitely want to be in YOUR gang,” concluded Glitter.

Gary Glitter announces conversion to Catholicism | newsarse.com
 
:lol: elvis.

What took him so long? You have to figure a guy like him would've cottoned on long ago.
 
another cheap attack on catholicism? excellent!

when we finish here, maybe we should attack Muslims and Jews

wait, better not! they are out of limits, unlike catholics that deserve no respect at all because they are not "people"
 
Aww it's nice he's trying to turn his life around. Hopefully he'll go on to be a committed and useful member of the catholic church, I could see him being in the choir boys.
 
marcosdeto said:
another cheap attack on catholicism? excellent!

when we finish here, maybe we should attack Muslims and Jews

wait, better not! they are out of limits, unlike catholics that deserve no respect at all because they are not "people"
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The siege mode Catholics have gone into over this massive scandal is nothing short of disgusting. When the pope himself talks about "petty gossip", you know the magnitude of what is going on hasn't dawned on him.

In what was was this an attack on Catholics? Oh, don't get me wrong, I personally don't see how someone can profess a faith that has been led and is led by some of the vilest people on Earth, but this wasn't an attack on individuals. This was an attack on the institution. And it deserves everything it gets. It wasn't exactly a big surprise, but recently a big child-abuse scandal erupted in Norway as well. We don't have many Catholics, to put it mildly, yet even here the people in charge manage to show themselves for the scum they are.
 
niMic said:
The siege mode Catholics have gone into over this massive scandal is nothing short of disgusting. When the pope himself talks about "petty gossip", you know the magnitude of what is going on hasn't dawned on him.

In what was was this an attack on Catholics? Oh, don't get me wrong, I personally don't see how someone can profess a faith that has been led and is led by some of the vilest people on Earth, but this wasn't an attack on individuals. This was an attack on the institution. And it deserves everything it gets. It wasn't exactly a big surprise, but recently a big child-abuse scandal erupted in Norway as well. We don't have many Catholics, to put it mildly, yet even here the people in charge manage to show themselves for the scum they are.
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there's no way i'm going to answer to you
 
:boring: -- Can it get any funnier? I'm absolutely dying of laughter here.

Attacking a whole group on the basis of the acts of a few is always, but *always*, hilarious.

One up for the anti-Catholics, long in the shadow of the side-splitting humour of the anti-Semites & the Islamophobes, but not anymore, it seems.
You're simply too clever for us naughty people!
 
niMic said:
Ah yes, now being outraged over the systematic cover-up of decades of child-abuse is akin to being anti-semitic!

Just feck off.
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No, I won't, because my comment about anti-Catholisism wasn't directed at you, but at the joke quoted in the OP.
I just don't find judging a whole group of people on the basis of the acts of an extreme minority funny.

I thought Cantalamessa's comments were extremely insensitive, and I never intended to agree with them.

I just can't see anti-Catholic jokes as any better than any jokes tainting a whole group with the sins of a few, be it jews, muslims, women or any other group.

I'm sorry if I've offended anyone.
 
Waltraute said:
:boring: -- Can it get any funnier? I'm absolutely dying of laughter here.

Attacking a whole group on the basis of the acts of a few is always, but *always*, hilarious.

One up for the anti-Catholics, long in the shadow of the side-splitting humour of the anti-Semites & the Islamophobes, but not anymore, it seems.
You're simply too clever for us naughty people!
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It's an attack on the Catholic institution, not on Catholics as people. The Catholic institution is more than deserving, being the vile, backward and bigoted organisation it is.
 
rednev said:
It's an attack on the Catholic institution, not on Catholics as people. The Catholic institution is more than deserving, being the vile, backward and bigoted organisation it is.
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Yes, I know.

But it's like with United (it's just as irrational & highly emotional as religion) - no one hurts more than the supporter when the institution fecks up, and it makes one over-sensitive.
(And to be on the safe side - of course the scandal in the church is infinitely worse than eg the Glazer takeover. Just trying to get people to understand where I'm coming from. Feeling I'm failing as I type, though. ;))

I'm absolutely devastated about these child abuse scandals, but it's not like I can change religion at the drop of a hat, is it?
 
Waltraute said:
Yes, I know.

But it's like with United (it's just as irrational & highly emotional as religion) - no one hurts more than the supporter when the institution fecks up, and it makes one over-sensitive.
(And to be on the safe side - of course the scandal in the church is infinitely worse than eg the Glazer takeover. Just trying to get people to understand where I'm coming from. Feeling I'm failing as I type, though. ;))

I'm absolutely devastated about these child abuse scandals, but it's not like I can change religion at the drop of a hat, is it?
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Oh, I can think of one or two groups who hurt more...
 
niMic said:
Oh, I can think of one or two groups who hurt more...
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I agree, and I'm sorry.

Look, I'm sorry I ever entered into this thread.
All I'm trying to say is as a Catholic I'm hurting so much for the victims of the abuse, as every decent human being, and hopefully the justified outrage at these crimes will be directed at the guilty persons, not Catholics in general.

Given the situation we probably ought to take anti-Catholic jokes on the chin, and not whinge about it. I still can't understand why bigotry is ever justified, although I understand the need to vent the anger.
 
Waltraute said:
I agree, and I'm sorry.

Look, I'm sorry I ever entered into this thread.
All I'm trying to say is as a Catholic I'm hurting so much for the victims of the abuse, as every decent human being, and hopefully the justified outrage at these crimes will be directed at the guilty persons, not Catholics in general.

Given the situation we probably ought to take anti-Catholic jokes on the chin, and not whinge about it. I still can't understand why bigotry is ever justified, although I understand the need to vent the anger.
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I think the outrage is being directed at the institution, not the flock, Waltraute.
 
What I don't get is you've got the Pope, God's representitive on earth, and he swept it under the carpet. So is that what God wanted then?
 
Waltraute said:
I agree, and I'm sorry.

Look, I'm sorry I ever entered into this thread.
All I'm trying to say is as a Catholic I'm hurting so much for the victims of the abuse, as every decent human being, and hopefully the justified outrage at these crimes will be directed at the guilty persons, not Catholics in general.

Given the situation we probably ought to take anti-Catholic jokes on the chin, and not whinge about it. I still can't understand why bigotry is ever justified, although I understand the need to vent the anger.
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It's okay, you're obviously not trying to defend the higher-ups here. The guys who have actually done all this.

You're probably going to hear a lot more in the coming weeks, months and years, though. Just keep in mind most of it will be firmly directed at the institution, not the adherents.
 
It's hard not to attack Catholicism for this, seeing as the big fat sacrifice of celibacy is more than most can handle, and it's this sort of moralising without realising how psychologically fecked up repressed sexuality is, which helps perpetuate these scandals.
 
Cheers, Dr. Dwayne & niMic!
I'm sure you're right in saying the outrage is directed towards the perpetrators, and those covering up for the perpetrators, and you share the anger about those crimes with all us decent Catholics (hopefully that's not a contradiction in terms for some of you ;)).
Like I said upthread, I was over-sensitive, and I'm sorry.

Just outright laughing at Marcos' post is a bit too much though, Weaste (unless this is an in-joke flying over my head - then disregard). I thought he was a bit OTT with the 'we're not people' comment, but otherwise I can understand why it hurts having crude anti-Catholic jokes regarded as de rigueur, while all other bigoted jokes are anathema. (For my own take on this, see upthread)

Eriku -- Maybe we're asking too much of any human being, for a man to remain celibate. I honestly think this is at the heart of the issue.

Here's Father Furlong to entertain you & show you what celibacy does to a man :) --

 
Waltraute said:
Just outright laughing at Marcos' post is a bit too much though, Weaste (unless this is an in-joke flying over my head - then disregard). I thought he was a bit OTT with the 'we're not people' comment, but otherwise I can understand why it hurts having crude anti-Catholic jokes regarded as de rigueur, while all other bigoted jokes are anathema.
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Depends on who you ask. I've had some fairly angry posts directed at me several times in the past, from both Muslims and Christians, for being... too disrespectful, shall we say?

No Jews, though. There's just so few of them, what's the point?
 
Right amount of anger, wrong argument.

It's people within these religions that are the sick bastards, they should be judged individually not only as the paranoid schizophrenics that believing in religion makes them, but as the child molesting cnut jobbers they are as well.

Of course, as we all know, there isn't a great creator and anyone who thinks this is an opportunity to draw religious battle lines is only distracted from the fact that we should be moving away from religion all together.
 
Stobzilla said:
Right amount of anger, wrong argument.

It's people within these religions that are the sick bastards, they should be judged individually not only as the paranoid schizophrenics that believing in religion makes them, but as the child molesting cnut jobbers they are as well.

Of course, as we all know, there isn't a great creator and anyone who thinks this is an opportunity to draw religious battle lines is only distracted from the fact that we should be moving away from religion all together.
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Wait beleiving in religon makes youa paranoid schizo now :lol:

You spastic.
 
If i went around saying I talked to my imaginary friend every night and if I don't do everything he says then I will burn in a fire forever more after death in all seriousness then I would be sectioned as such.
 
Stobzilla said:
If i went around saying I talked to my imaginary friend every night and if I don't do everything he says then I will burn in a fire forever more after death in all seriousness then I would be sectioned as such.
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I think you need to worry about forming sentences as such. You're basically saying that more than half the worlds population should be sectioned. Spastic.
 
United87 said:
I think you need to worry about forming sentences as such. You're basically saying that more than half the worlds population should be sectioned. Spastic.
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They should.

Or they should admit to themselves that they don't actually really believe in fairy tales.

Or possibly they should come to realise that religion was primarily invented as a means to explain what we didn't have the capacity too 1000's of years ago. Now that we do it should be outed for the shit heap it is.
 
United87 said:
Wait beleiving in religon makes youa paranoid schizo now :lol:

You spastic.
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Most religious people are certainly paranoid. Very heavily deluded, too, and many (those who claim to have had contact with God or Jesus, angels etc) suffer from hallucinations.

I wouldn't say call them schizophrenic, but most are worthy of ridicule.
 
rednev said:
Most religious people are certainly paranoid. Very heavily deluded, too, and many (those who claim to have had contact with God or Jesus, angels etc) suffer from hallucinations.

I wouldn't say call them schizophrenic, but most are worthy of ridicule.
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Where are you getting your stats from exactly:rolleyes:.
 
Stobzilla said:
They should.

Or they should admit to themselves that they don't actually really believe in fairy tales.

Or possibly they should come to realise that religion was primarily invented as a means to explain what we didn't have the capacity too 1000's of years ago. Now that we do it should be outed for the shit heap it is.
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You are obviously an idiot.
 
United87 said:
Where are you getting your stats from exactly:rolleyes:.
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They're not stats. They are opinions.

Paranoia - a thought process heavily influenced by anxiety or fear, often to the point of irrationality and delusion.

Yep. That fits the bill perfectly. The thought processes of a religious person are usually influenced by fear of going to hell.

Delusion - a fixed false belief that is resistant to reason or confrontation with actual fact

That seems to be pretty much spot on with religion. Wouldn't you agree?
 
People should be left to believe in god, jesus, ghosts or the easter bunny if they want but the organisations themselves deserve all the criticism they get.
 
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