There are a lot of streets that are named after people that they shouldn’t be. What’s one more? And how many people really call the tribourough bridge the RFK?

http://www.leadfootedrabbit.com

The Catholic Church has absolutely no right to dictate anything to anyone – particularly on what they may of may not deem offensive.

You know what I find offensive? Child Rape.

Old, celibate, delusional men part of a corrupt system that protects molesters should shut it.

“It was the schoolboy who said, ‘Faith is believing what you know ain’t so.’”
~ MARK TWAIN

“A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.”
~ DOROTHY PARKER

Rafferty said he does not want his school children, who would read Carlin’s name on a street sign directly across the street, to be exposed to his often profane brand of humor. “He also was an extremely vulgar person,” Rafferty said.

“Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.” ~ MARK TWAIN

Maybe the good father doesn’t want his TAX DOLLARS going to pay for that sign.

WGAF what this pastor has to say?

“People seem to be offended by facts, or what used to be called truth.”
~ FRANCIS BACON
(1909 – 1992)
Irish born British artist

It’s not VULGARITY that offends the pastoral and reverential. It’s the naked truth.

“Religion easily has the best b’llsh¡t story of all time. Think about it. Religion has convinced people that there’s an invisible man…living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn’t want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money.”

“Something is wrong.  War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, crime, torture, corruption and the ice capades.  If this is the best god can do, I am not impressed.  This is not what you expect to find on the resume of a supreme being.  It’s what you expect from an office temp with a bad attitude.”

“I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.”
~ GEORGE CARLIN

“The local Catholic priest says it dishonors his church.”
THE CHURCH DISHONORS IT’S OWN!

“…at the Catholic church and school Carlin attended”
WHICH PROBABLY DID MORE TO TURN HIM INTO AN ATHEIST THAN ALL THE PROFANITY IN THE WORLD.

“Rafferty said he does not want HIS school children….”
WHOSE CHILDREN? THOSE ABUSED BY PRIESTS?

“Rafferty said putting it here would be a slap in the face of the church.”
AND SEX ABUSE AND COVER-UP SCANDAL AREN’T!

A QUESTION FOR THE PASTOR:

“Who will say with confidence that sexual abuse is more permanently damaging to children than threatening them with the eternal and unquenchable fires of hell?”
~ RICHARD DAWKINS
British ethologist, zoologist, Neo-Darwinian evolutionary biologist and theorist and popular science author

“Humor is the sign of divine light. When that light strikes the mind, it tickles it, and this tickling of the mind produces humor” – Hazrat Inayat Khan
The mystics have always known that no concept of God can even begin to approach the reality, hence to argue about who God is, what God is “like” etc., is really just another excuse to start a war.
It would be an honor to have West 122nd Street named after George Carlin.

How does this nobody from a morally bankrupt religion get press?

He didn’t kill anyone did he?

I remember one of George’s lines, and I believe it was as follows: “We all know the speed of light, but do we know the speed of darkness”? My connection to this line has bearing to a question for Pastor Rafferty.
I ask you Pastor Rafferty, Mr. Carlin can lay claim to using profound language, but was never to have been charged with sexual abuse. Can the Catholic Church lay claim to same? I believe it time for you to come out of the dark!

“Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice . . . you don’t. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own, and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls.”

- George Carlin

http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2010/08/09/by-the-balls/

The Church has NO STANDING TO SUE because it has not lost any money (nor will it) due to the renaming.

George Carlin was a very funny man. He existed. God, seems to be a very angry one. No poof of existence. Carlin game, set, match.

“Metaxas can’t report the words are because he might lose my job.”

Huh?

George Carlin was an absolute genius and pointed out the many ironic contradictions and absurdities in the World. His unique interpretations helped make these all seem more bearable. I will very much miss his take on the status quo and I’d love to hear what he’d say about our current political and economic woes. He was very hard on the church and ultra cynical but considering all the scandals that have surfaced he was justified to an extent. Pastor Raymond Rafferty should allow the man his due. In fact her deserves more than a street named after him, how about a cathedral?

There`s no such thing as a bad word. Bad thoughts, bad intentions and there`s words.
George Carlin

he was a genius and he was honest . more than politicians who get buildings named after them.

True, George Carlin may have used the “seven” dirty words, but he used them to express life as it was, according to his view point.

One of the things that makes New York City a great destination is its appreciation of unvarnished truth. George Carlin touched a nerve in powerful places precisely because he exposed hypocrisy, absurdity and humanity. He was among the most brilliant voices of his generation. Those who feel threatened should put their words up against his, and let the free marketplace of ideas determine the winner. Give the man his due.

Hey Rafferty. “a slap in the face”, you say. Every time you pick up a newspaper your church is getting slapped in the face. And your doing it to yourselves, no less. Child molestation, robbery, stealing, etc. What you fail to understand is one fundamental premise. That is, Carlin’s jokes were meant to make people laugh by shocking them with words not in the mainstream. He did this effectively and he was outstanding. This was his job, not necessarily his belief. I doubt every time you stand on the pulpit and read a sermon you actually believe what you are saying. That would be impossible. So, Your job is to get money, church goers. His job to make people laugh.

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for those who have been there.
George Carlin grew up in the later.

The “pastor” is pissing into the wind. Carlin was a realist and a rationalist whose plain talking helped people. A street named for him is a fitting honor. As for the priest, the Vatican STILL tacitly condones the sexual abuse of little kids.

I’m not Roman Catholic, a priest or a child molester and I’ve found some of Mr. Carlin’s wisecracks disturbing. The most memorable was his out and outright blasphemy of God himself. If you don’t believe in God then fine but its not necessary to say the most profane things about what others revere as dear and sacred. That’s indecent! If he did not repent, then I have no doubt as to Mr. Carlin’s final destination.

Yes, I’m sure all those molested boys and girls would be aghast at having a street named after George Carlin! Why not name ALL of the streets after the Priests who did the molesting? I’m sure the Catholic church’s face wouldn’t be “slapped” if THAT happened!!
George Carlin has told the truth more times that the RCC ever has!