carultch L. Ron Hubbard did intend to make it a religion though which is why it's formatted like a religion and why he was while he was alive and still is viewed as a sort of Demigod within Scientology. He said to his first wife, "The best way to make money is to start your own religion." He was simply unsuccessful in legitimizing it and getting the religious tax exemption while he was alive but that's about it. The current leader, David Miscavige, is more ruthless than Hubbard was with how he accomplishes things. This is how he got religious tax exemption status for Scientology.
+thewickedfae There should be no tax exemption for churches. Scientology, with is wacky unsubstantiated beliefs is a good example of why. The same goes for every religion, though.
Monty Python is one of the funniest shows there ever was. When I was 15. I saw Fawlty Towers for the fist time, and I laughed so hard I almost blacked out.
They must have recycled that joke later, in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Remember the French taunters? "I am Alfred, King of the Britons. Will you ask your master if he will join me in our Quest for the Holy Grail? Ah, mais non - 'e's already got one, you see... (Turns to his companions... "I told 'im we already got one!" where upon the Frenchmen all fall about laughing...)
@@garethspotfur1 Mine too! Or rather, their chosen place of retirement (they are long gone now, sadly). It really is a fine city, as the marketing slogan goes..
Hey, at least the rewards this particular religion is trying to pander are actually tangible. I'd rather have the guarantee of the living room set or the Norwich City Council than the vague promise of heaven.
+Andrew Baker "Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, you tell me what you know." -- Otis B. Driftwood
Amazing to hear Messiaen's "Le Verbe", from "La Nativité du Seigneur", in a Python sketch. Two of my great cultural loves which I never expected to meet in one place...
I think it was planned, but John Cleese comes from the old school of slapstick, where in order to engender the appropriate effect, you REALLY hit them.
Terese Hewitt Sounds like you don't know how to spell or something. 1 pegging anal sex reveresed. instead of the man sticking his penis up the womans butt, the woman wears a strap-on and sticks it up the mans butt. charles: are you sure jean? you probably won't feel anything. jean: i don't care charles. i'll do anything for you. (jean proceeds to peg charles, when all of a sudden, dave comes in the room) dave: hey charles, do you wanna see eraser - oh, jesus fucking christ! (kim enters) kim: fuck! they're at it again! dave: what the hell? is jean wearing a...strap-on? charles: do you guys ever knock?! by dawntodusk December 23, 2004
@MikeSrdl I'm overwhelmingly excited to receive some more information about this great find. Please tell me in which peer-reviewed article it is published in, so I can go and read about it myself.
@RightCountry I admire your faith and your seeming open mindedness. I see faith can be a very separate and different thing from religion. And your recovery shows a lot of strength in you. My grandmother had a stroke and i've known several people who have also had strokes, so I know (though not personally) how difficult it is to recover. You are fortunate. I tend to bug people about their grammar too, but i think that guy was just trying to get at you. Anyway, just thought i'd say that. Kudos.
Thank you effects of human innovation, including engineering, architecture, work on the world's infrastructure, and hard (honest, self-done) work to transport and sell all the goods of the world, including food. I appreciate all of the people's work it took to have the stuff that I have, or 'possess'. Oh wait, what is this video about?
@alternativebassist No. Ridiculing irrational beliefs and pointing out their flaws is what comedy does and has made Monty Python as awesome as they are. Lighten up.
Kolya the Great - I don't know, they might be expensive to feed, and how would you stop them jumping the fence and escaping while you were at work? Unless of course you kept them indoors... but that'd be silly...
It's like watching a scientology seminar. I love Monty Python.
"Bet she's no novice when it comes to converting all in her see" is a very, very, very clever joke.
Monty Python - educating the public by satire since 1969.
You mean helping to destroy British culture since 1969. Hope you like it now.
Scientology explained.
***** I like how Scientology is the one religion started by a man who didn't even intend to start it.
carultch L. Ron Hubbard did intend to make it a religion though which is why it's formatted like a religion and why he was while he was alive and still is viewed as a sort of Demigod within Scientology. He said to his first wife, "The best way to make money is to start your own religion." He was simply unsuccessful in legitimizing it and getting the religious tax exemption while he was alive but that's about it. The current leader, David Miscavige, is more ruthless than Hubbard was with how he accomplishes things. This is how he got religious tax exemption status for Scientology.
thewickedfae It is part of the work of one of Aleister Crowley's occult orders to start your own religion. I guess he took the teachings seriously!
+thewickedfae There should be no tax exemption for churches. Scientology, with is wacky unsubstantiated beliefs is a good example of why. The same goes for every religion, though.
All religions explained.
Monty Python is one of the funniest shows there ever was.
When I was 15. I saw Fawlty Towers for the fist time, and I laughed so hard I almost blacked out.
love the archbishop of Australia, i wish our archbishop was like that.
If only our clergy were as daft as them Aussie ones! More butts in the pews! 😅
That look on Michael Palin's face when John Cleese slaps him is classic. I don't think it was scripted.
"For the rich" - the most profound truthful religious statement
I wish it were not so.
Thought it was the opium of the masses
"I've got one already!" Excellent topper to the joke!
even funnier for me, norwhich is my parents home town!
That floored me as well.
They must have recycled that joke later, in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Remember the French taunters?
"I am Alfred, King of the Britons. Will you ask your master if he will join me in our Quest for the Holy Grail?
Ah, mais non - 'e's already got one, you see...
(Turns to his companions... "I told 'im we already got one!" where upon the Frenchmen all fall about laughing...)
@@garethspotfur1 Mine too! Or rather, their chosen place of retirement (they are long gone now, sadly). It really is a fine city, as the marketing slogan goes..
Terry Gilliam's "seething cauldron of hate" at the end is perfect!
Who knew that a Terry Gilliam cartoon would fortell the rise of "Christian Nationalism". 😱
LOL, Cleese holding a can of Foster's. Classic.
I had never heard of this one. I wonder how much Monty Python I have yet to find!
Ahhh.. Monty Python. So far ahead of the times.
0:55 "oh, ms Collins"
I can rewatch it all day, my fav, just look at their faces
This makes more sense than real religions.
Wait til Bigus Dickus hears of this this!
Sillius Sodus...
I'm in for the furniture suite. Nice 60's modern.
So what in the sodding hell does one do with a village council? 🤨
@@luisreyes1963 Not much, but this is an entire city council! Think of the possibilities! Eerrr...
Hey, at least the rewards this particular religion is trying to pander are actually tangible. I'd rather have the guarantee of the living room set or the Norwich City Council than the vague promise of heaven.
"I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of man I'm preaching to." - J. R. "Bob" Dobbs, Church of the SubGenius.
"I once bought some powdered water but I didn't know what to add." - Stephen Wright
+Andrew Baker
"Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, you tell me what you know." -- Otis B. Driftwood
+Nuthine Atholl I love the Marx Brothers.
Pull the wool over your own eyes
he looks like he's cosplaying as the 10'th doctor.
this wins the internet
I thought he was the 10th doctor, but it can't be.. unless, you know, time travel :D
Maybe David Tennant was cosplaying as Eric Idle
Thundroth Higg More likely, this was made decades ago.
Bob Butts what?
I didn't know the Pythons were into documentary film-making.
nicely put
Um....That is all they do.
Amazing to hear Messiaen's "Le Verbe", from "La Nativité du Seigneur", in a Python sketch. Two of my great cultural loves which I never expected to meet in one place...
The Verb? What a strange thing to name a piece.
@@ferretyluv it means "The Word" (as in, of God).
@@richardharrold9736 I thought word was mot.
@@ferretyluv not in this context, at least!
Python yet again being eons ahead of it’s time
Oh man, he smacked 'em pretty good at 0:45 . It even startled me.
I am convinced that poor Michael didn't even know about it. It almost broke his character.
I love the archbishop of Australia.
Blessed are those who partake in Foster's Lager & Aussie Rules Football...🏉
Man everything they do is seamless.
I think it was planned, but John Cleese comes from the old school of slapstick, where in order to engender the appropriate effect, you REALLY hit them.
And simetimes it would take a damn good trashing.
All hail cartoons from all nations so that our souls may reach up high
That Is the most beautiful tea trolley I have ever seen.
From Gilda Radner: "Humor is truth, only faster!"
this and the Life of Brian and the Church of the Sub-Genius pretty well sums up my view on religions.
The Python guys were true visionaries. Pegging the modern American GOP social-political landscape those many years ago.
Pegging means something totally different, here in the U.S...
manictiger What does ot mean. I live here.
Terese Hewitt
Look it up on urban dictionary.
I just did and it said define what it means.
Terese Hewitt
Sounds like you don't know how to spell or something.
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pegging
anal sex reveresed. instead of the man sticking his penis up the womans butt, the woman wears a strap-on and sticks it up the mans butt.
charles: are you sure jean? you probably won't feel anything.
jean: i don't care charles. i'll do anything for you.
(jean proceeds to peg charles, when all of a sudden, dave comes in the room)
dave: hey charles, do you wanna see eraser - oh, jesus fucking christ!
(kim enters)
kim: fuck! they're at it again!
dave: what the hell? is jean wearing a...strap-on?
charles: do you guys ever knock?!
by dawntodusk December 23, 2004
Ever since I first saw this sketch 25 years ago, it's been among my favourites from Python! :D
Poor Michael, poor Manuel, all victims of Cleesey's violent streak.
I WOULD Have KNOCKED HIS Lights OUT 😁😁😁g
That archbishop of Australia, nowhere near as creepy as the real one. How's it going Georgy?
We hope... very badly for him...
He Pell from grace.
Pastafarian is legit, unlike the others.
The truest depiction of religion ever
Amen
Mike got quite a slap there! xD
Similar to what Andrew Sachs got a lot of in Fawlty Towers.
I love the Terry Gilliam part where the top of the preachers head keeps popping off to reveal a devil stewing in slime.
Now you know where televangelists come from. 👹
wow I never saw until now how much Monty Python take the piss out of religion knowing this now really brings the warm fuzzys
With Archbishop Gumby leading the MAGA dioceses. And Archbishop Shabby tends to the homeless of S.F. 🏚️
when he slapped her, I bursted into laughter. So random, but brilliant.
I want that three piece lounge suite soooooo bad.
I'd rather that. I certainly don't need another Norwich City Council. I've got three of those already.
Something that doesn't exist can never be hurt. :-)
Bruce Beer the archbishop of Australia, ha
Fuckin love their animations!
he took the "poor guy" part literately, and then went to babel complete randomness about that
Not gonna front, that tea trolly was lookin’ sharp
Perfect gems do not lose their lustre -
@MikeSrdl I'm overwhelmingly excited to receive some more information about this great find. Please tell me in which peer-reviewed article it is published in, so I can go and read about it myself.
I fucking love the shadows at the end :P
A crude lampoon...but not too far from the mark.
LMFAO @ the slap @ 0:41
Damn those cartoons always creeped me out!
@RightCountry I admire your faith and your seeming open mindedness. I see faith can be a very separate and different thing from religion. And your recovery shows a lot of strength in you. My grandmother had a stroke and i've known several people who have also had strokes, so I know (though not personally) how difficult it is to recover. You are fortunate. I tend to bug people about their grammar too, but i think that guy was just trying to get at you. Anyway, just thought i'd say that. Kudos.
Love the fact that Eric is wearing an MCC tie.
Tax religion and they'll all be buggered..... again
I had a mouthfull of wine when Cleese slapped Palin......no more.
The cartoon analogy was perfect.
All religion is marvelous crackpottery.
Thank you effects of human innovation, including engineering, architecture, work on the world's infrastructure, and hard (honest, self-done) work to transport and sell all the goods of the world, including food. I appreciate all of the people's work it took to have the stuff that I have, or 'possess'. Oh wait, what is this video about?
Sarah, today’s diocesan lovely...... 😂
A splendid tea trolley.
what ever happened to just enjoying this sketch for the satire? the Python's made fun of everything! that's what makes satire!
Where is the Church of the Divine Loony?
Good to see him wearing a MCC tie.
Ahhhh a lounge suite, the perennial Monty Python quiz show prize.
Actually, we've had a couple of versions of the price is right starting in 1984. It was on for about 15 years and intermittently over the last 10.
real face-slap @ :43...i have tears in my eyes as i type this
Creation Model? Pious twaddle!
wonderful
I just noticed the other articles in that newspaper. How could I have not noticed "Dead woman wins a degree by lip reading?"
Priceless....
So this is where Hubbard got his ideas!
LOL!!! Luxury tea trolley!
@CaperAway1 The proper quote is,
"Religion has caused more harm and misery to more humans in all of history than any other single idea" M.M.O'Hair
That animation summed up what religion has done for me xD
I Love Monty Python.
It's right that a video called 'crackpot religion' should have an advert for scientology.
a caravan!
This has so many parallels with the Mormons
"I've got one already"
@alternativebassist No. Ridiculing irrational beliefs and pointing out their flaws is what comedy does and has made Monty Python as awesome as they are. Lighten up.
@titleydaniel
Peter Bonetti - goalkeeper for Chelsea 1960-1975
He played against Germany in 1970 WC quarter final.
@koppellhinex You should have your own TV show. Failing that, just stand on the promenade with a sandwich board and a pamphlet.
Monty Python predicted Hillsong.
Okay I just refreshed the page and now it's an ad for Verizon Wireless!
I would honestly love to have won the Norwich City Council... :/
Kolya the Great - I don't know, they might be expensive to feed, and how would you stop them jumping the fence and escaping while you were at work? Unless of course you kept them indoors... but that'd be silly...
Blasphemer! You edited a MP skit! You are a disgrace to all nerdom! I shall now fart in thy general direction! Praise Brian!
Have a hamburger to comfort yourself.
I think I actually heard the neckbeard panting just by reading that comment.
The Rat Prince Thanks for the compliment. Not used to people telling me I look like I'm in my 20s. Makes me feel young.
Hehe, you're funny, also, burn the heathen!
kamikaze9699 Are neckbeards typically in their twenties? I only have known one in-person, and he was in his early 30s.
The Archbishop Of Australia, lol, must be a queenslander
I once told someone I worship at Our Lady of Perpetual Motion; they stared at me for a second then cracked up laughing.
I wanted that Norwich city counsil!
Carol Cleveland looked really cute in this sketch.
I would join up for sure.
I remain delighted to see informed hammering of religion...
If you'd like a bit of "love your neighbor", and who doesn't now and again.
Hey all, don't forget Monty Python just released a new live dvd!
I want that tea trolley.
Ahahahaaa I'm an aussie an I laughed when I seen the archbishop of australia xD
"The entire Norwich city council? What a useless prize..."
Especially if you already have one. :)
I want the luxury tea trolly.