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(MSNBC) Spiffy Hawaii celebrates its first saint. No, it's not Obama   (msnbc.msn.com) divider line 45
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Juniper Jupiter [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-11-02 04:19:27 PM  
Ah...yes! St. Damien.

/Must've been some sort of OMEN!

 
TaVaMaN [TotalFark] 2009-11-02 04:27:22 PM  
That's because everyone know that Obama wasn't born in Hawaii.

 
Your Faith is Creepy [TotalFark] 2009-11-02 04:41:18 PM  
www.badassvillains.com

/approves

 
FloydA [TotalFark] 2009-11-02 06:14:04 PM  
Damien?
[click]
Damien. Good.

He's an excellent example of how Christians are supposed to act.

 
ZAZ [TotalFark] 2009-11-02 06:50:47 PM  
This would be a followup to 4689979 ("This Sunday, the Pope will canonize five new saints, including one from Hawaii. Wait, what? After only eight months in office?")

 
Fark In A Wind Storm 2009-11-02 07:40:19 PM  
ZAZ: This would be a followup to 4689979 ("This Sunday, the Pope will canonize five new saints, including one from Hawaii. Wait, what? After only eight months in office?")

i lol'd

 
WTF Indeed 2009-11-02 07:40:49 PM  
TaVaMaN: That's because everyone know that Obama wasn't born in Hawaii.

Yes he was. Its just not a state.

 
Atomic Spunk 2009-11-02 07:41:29 PM  
They're going batshiat over his heelbone. His HEELBONE!!! That is just fricken nutty. Do they really think that Damien is looking down from above, smiling at all the people that are going crazy over his heelbone? He's probably a little creeped out.

 
The_Sponge [TotalFark] 2009-11-02 07:43:14 PM  
They need to make Duke Kahanamoku a saint.

/Saint Duke.
//Has a nice ring to it.

 
Englebert Slaptyback 2009-11-02 07:45:22 PM  

Hawaii celebrates its first saint. No, it's not Obama


St. Pau Hana?

St. Kama'aina?

 
JC22 2009-11-02 07:46:47 PM  
Wait..Obama didnt get 'sainthood' yet? Im disappointed. I mean if he makes any effort or comment about it, he should get it like he got the Nobel Peace Prize.

 
amazing_live_seamonkeys 2009-11-02 07:46:57 PM  
Leprosy, What a sorry mess I am to see.
Even friends can't stand to look at me.
Oh, I despise my leprosy.
Gradually, I'm not half the man I used to be.
Pieces keep on falling off of me.
It happens now so gradually.
When my tongue fell off,
I don't know, I couldn't say.
I said, "zump ping wong".
Now I long for that sweet day
When I had no
Leprosy.
Making with me could never be.
Yes, I've lost my chance for ecstasy.
Oh I despise
My leprosy.

 
texastag 2009-11-02 07:53:32 PM  
Mahalo brah.

 
attackingpencil 2009-11-02 07:54:35 PM  
Atomic Spunk: They're going batshiat over his heelbone. His HEELBONE!!! That is just fricken nutty. Do they really think that Damien is looking down from above, smiling at all the people that are going crazy over his heelbone? He's probably a little creeped out.

Never studied relics in the Catholic Church before? We're lucky it's not his foreskin.

 
denbroc 2009-11-02 07:56:32 PM  
icanhashappy.com

What St. Obama might look like...

 
CygnusDarius [TotalFark] 2009-11-02 07:56:53 PM  
WTF Indeed: TaVaMaN: That's because everyone know that Obama wasn't born in Hawaii.

Yes he was. Its just not a state.


I thought he was Kenyan.

/And that he was a secret muslim

 
cmb53208 2009-11-02 07:57:39 PM  
Hawaii celebrates its first saint. No, it's not Obama

Dog the Bounty Hunter?

 
CygnusDarius [TotalFark] 2009-11-02 07:58:12 PM  
JC22: Wait..Obama didnt get 'sainthood' yet? Im disappointed. I mean if he makes any effort or comment about it, he should get it like he got the Nobel Peace Prize.

Sanctity is usually given posthumously.

 
ultraholland 2009-11-02 07:59:48 PM  
Achilles not impressed.

 
MadTheologian 2009-11-02 07:59:59 PM  
attackingpencil: Atomic Spunk: They're going batshiat over his heelbone. His HEELBONE!!! That is just fricken nutty. Do they really think that Damien is looking down from above, smiling at all the people that are going crazy over his heelbone? He's probably a little creeped out.

Never studied relics in the Catholic Church before? We're lucky it's not his foreskin.


"Keep the tip."

 
CygnusDarius [TotalFark] 2009-11-02 08:02:52 PM  
attackingpencil: Atomic Spunk: They're going batshiat over his heelbone. His HEELBONE!!! That is just fricken nutty. Do they really think that Damien is looking down from above, smiling at all the people that are going crazy over his heelbone? He's probably a little creeped out.

Never studied relics in the Catholic Church before? We're lucky it's not his foreskin.


Ahh, relics.

Well, a piece of cloth is all well and good (as there are those kinds of relics), but sometimes we catholics go into Ed Gein territory.

 
william shatner mouth 2009-11-02 08:06:06 PM  
imagine the crowds if it were his femur!!!!!

 
attackingpencil 2009-11-02 08:07:41 PM  
CygnusDarius: Well, a piece of cloth is all well and good (as there are those kinds of relics), but sometimes we catholics go into Ed Gein territory.

There's at least one saint who was purportedly ripped apart while still alive. When Simeon Stylites died they had to mobilize the army to stop his body from being torn apart. This is why I study religion.

 
TheAgeOfEgos 2009-11-02 08:08:51 PM  
Damien built homes for Kalaupapa's leprosy patients and bandaged their wounds at a time when the disfiguring disease still carried a powerful social stigma, and almost no one else wanted to get near those who had it.

He was diagnosed with the disease 12 years after he arrived in Kalaupapa and died four years later in 1889.



img.photobucket.com

 
Somacandra [TotalFark] 2009-11-02 08:16:40 PM  
FTFA: Hawaii feted the canonization of Saint Damien with a Mass...

images4.wikia.nocookie.net

SANCTUS! DOMINUS!!

 
40 watt range 2009-11-02 08:17:25 PM  
TaVaMaN: That's because everyone know that Obama wasn't born in Hawaii.

Sure it's been said, but neither was St. Damien.

 
Tigggy 2009-11-02 08:22:26 PM  
I'd heard about Father Damien. It's unbelievable.

FloydA:

He's an excellent example of how Christians are supposed to act.

THIS.

 
Onkel Buck 2009-11-02 08:24:23 PM  
St. SPAM?

 
Clarence Potter 2009-11-02 08:35:55 PM  
FloydA: Damien?
[click]
Damien. Good.

He's an excellent example of how Christians are supposed to act.


Truth!

 
jpo2269 2009-11-02 08:48:06 PM  
This is FARK and given the tag line, I am surprised Subby hasn't been treated like Jody Foster on a pinball machine...

 
Bonzo_1116 2009-11-02 09:09:36 PM  
I just visited one of the churches he built on Molokai a few months ago. It's falling apart and really needs a new roof/paint/you name it.

So even sainthood won't give you a spiffy church.

/the locals were way excited.

 
SeamusFerrell 2009-11-02 09:13:11 PM  
Bonzo_1116: I just visited one of the churches he built on Molokai a few months ago. It's falling apart and really needs a new roof/paint/you name it.

So even sainthood won't give you a spiffy church.

/the locals were way excited.


It was probably from all the crystal meth the locals do in Hawaii.

 
Bonzo_1116 2009-11-02 09:17:00 PM  
SeamusFerrell: Bonzo_1116: I just visited one of the churches he built on Molokai a few months ago. It's falling apart and really needs a new roof/paint/you name it.

So even sainthood won't give you a spiffy church.

/the locals were way excited.

It was probably from all the crystal meth the locals do in Hawaii.


Not much else to do on Molokai except surf and complain about the people from Maui.

 
HawaiiE 2009-11-02 09:20:45 PM  
yeah brah! Father Damien da one!

 
kabloink 2009-11-02 09:22:42 PM  
Bonzo_1116: SeamusFerrell: Bonzo_1116: I just visited one of the churches he built on Molokai a few months ago. It's falling apart and really needs a new roof/paint/you name it.

So even sainthood won't give you a spiffy church.

/the locals were way excited.

It was probably from all the crystal meth the locals do in Hawaii.

Not much else to do on Molokai except surf and complain about the people from Maui.


I thought they just used meth and blamed all their problems on the mainland haoles. At least when they are not blaming their problems on the overthrow of the Hawaiian government despite the fact their family immigrated from the Philippines.

 
Bonzo_1116 2009-11-02 09:26:47 PM  
kabloink: Bonzo_1116: SeamusFerrell: Bonzo_1116: I just visited one of the churches he built on Molokai a few months ago. It's falling apart and really needs a new roof/paint/you name it.

So even sainthood won't give you a spiffy church.

/the locals were way excited.

It was probably from all the crystal meth the locals do in Hawaii.

Not much else to do on Molokai except surf and complain about the people from Maui.

I thought they just used meth and blamed all their problems on the mainland haoles. At least when they are not blaming their problems on the overthrow of the Hawaiian government despite the fact their family immigrated from the Philippines.


Molokai's so tiny Maui is like the mainland in comparison.

I think there's a grand total of 5 stop signs on the whole island.

 
Juniper Jupiter [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-11-02 09:32:40 PM  
WTF Indeed: TaVaMaN: That's because everyone know that Obama wasn't born in Hawaii.

Yes he was. Its just not a state.


Neither is Alaska, then.

www.babble.com

/Lower 48, FTW

 
baercat 2009-11-02 10:11:19 PM  
WTF Indeed: TaVaMaN: That's because everyone know that Obama wasn't born in Hawaii.

Yes he was. Its just not a state.


it is so, it's the 56th state...

 
ranchguy 2009-11-02 10:17:40 PM  
mcgarrett /jack lord?

danno?

chin ho?

 
Fano 2009-11-02 10:31:26 PM  
www.mcphee.com

I see her icon on dashboards all the time next to the crucifix.

 
RaoulDuke 2009-11-02 10:33:59 PM  
I'd rather be riding a mule on Moloka'i...

 
Robo Beat 2009-11-02 11:35:27 PM  
Clarence Potter: FloydA: Damien?
[click]
Damien. Good.

He's an excellent example of how Christians are supposed to act.

Truth!


Quoted. Religiousness (or not) aside, Father Damien's devotion to the very least in our society is something we ought all strive to emulate.

 
SirEattonHogg 2009-11-02 11:40:16 PM  
kabloink
I thought they just used meth and blamed all their problems on the mainland haoles. At least when they are not blaming their problems on the overthrow of the Hawaiian government despite the fact their family immigrated from the Philippines.

I'm not sure I follow. What do Filipino immigrants have anything to do with the overthrow of the HI government? They're not native Hawaiians.

 
fartlighter3 2009-11-03 12:32:27 AM  
They couldn't find his real birth certificate.

 
cowman8989 2009-11-03 12:57:55 PM  
fartlighter3: They couldn't find his real birth certificate.

because they never looked for it in Kenya. and subby's correct he wont win saint hood till after he wins Miss Teen USA next year.

 
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