This might help. ;-)

Is it just my opinion, or is a fact that the third panel of the second image looks like it's from a Victims of Pacman convention?

That sounds more likely. I know I've had temporary feelings like that before.

Quite.

Non-ex-catholic comment: As you point out, priests are people - they're no more special than the people in their flocks. It's when their followers are enamoured with their priests' symbolic stature and become unquestioning automatons that can't even begin to comprehend them doing something "bad" (no pun intended here) things start to go pear-shaped.

I think vjack's point (and he's free to correct me here if I'm onto a wrong 'un) is that some parishioners can become so blinded in this way that, no matter what awfulness their priests might have been found guilty of, they still think giving them (undue) respect and access to their children are good ideas.

I thought Al Muhajiroun was banned in the UK, not just "controversial".

I've had this conversations with people many times. I tend to bring up dihydrogen monoxide as an example of a "nasty" chemical (and so far 100% of theses people have been ignorant of what it is) and reel of a list it's attributes, where it's used and it's impact, then suggest they start a petition, which they invariably want to do.

Then I wait a bit.

Yeah, he's certainly on the way to becoming a posthumous mancrush (a new combo for me) here.

I'm not convinced that that would be the most likely case. Blogger, as far as I can tell, is generally pretty relaxed about free speech and I don't think that the Bum's blog could be considered 'hatred' except by the most thin-skinned of complainants and similar responding Blogger employees.

I may be wrong (but I sincerely hope I'm not).

It might (and I'm not entirely convinced that this is the case) have been something to do with the recent (IMO overblown and confused) blog-spat betwixt the Bum and Heather over at Why Don't You, but I can't see him dumping his entire blog over that.

Saying that, he closed it down previously for no reason that I could see, and then resurrected it. Maybe it's just one of those "ah, fuck this blogging malarky" things...

*shrug*

Yup, you're clearly a mentalist! ;-)

Nah, IntenseDebate has been flaky for at least the past few days. Don't blame yourself (unless you're really a catholic and need the guilt).