Life Sentence - Once a Catholic, always a Catholic

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Permalink Reply by Marshall on December 10, 2009 at 3:53pm

Tell em you're a gay abortion doctor, theyll figure out a way to get you off their list.

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Permalink Reply by Goz on December 10, 2009 at 4:46pm

And take one of their magic wafers,break it in half ,drop it on the floor and grind it with your show. That will rile them.

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Permalink Reply by Dave Rogers on December 11, 2009 at 8:32am

This made me laugh out loud. How about a gay abortion doctor that owns a condom company.

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Permalink Reply by Sonny Mobley on December 10, 2009 at 4:02pm

Actually, they say this in the southern baptist circles as well. Too them I will always simply be a backsliding christian.

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Permalink Reply by Prog Rock Girl on December 10, 2009 at 4:11pm

Just trying to make their numbers look bigger than they actually are.

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Permalink Reply by Howard S. Dunn on December 10, 2009 at 4:53pm

I mentioned this before but ....

I gave the eulogy at my mother's funeral eight months ago. It was in a Fransican cathedral (straight out of World of Warcraft). When it came time for communion, the priest kept beckoning me up (even though I solemnly shook my head 'no' repeatedly.) I really started to get pissed. After all, I was trying respect THEIR protocols.

Strangely, my eulogy, devoid of any religious references - that focused on shared experience, memories, all the great art and literature she exposed me to, the curiosity she had and fostered in everyone she hung out with - was a such a 'moving tribute' to my more Catholic than the Pope mother that her prayer circle friends insisted on having a copy.

Even more strange, perhaps, was the fact that my VERY Catholic mother NEVER condemned me for my lack of belief. Not once.

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Permalink Reply by Dave Rogers on December 11, 2009 at 8:29am

One thing I didn't mention in my blog on my uncle's funeral is one of the priests knew my mother and her family when they were all young. At the wake the night before, my mother introduced me to him. He definitely assumed correctly I was baptized catholic.

Since I'm much taller than most of my family, he could see I wasn't into praying at all at the funeral. He just kept staring at me. (And I back at him.) When I skipped communion, I thought he was trying to burn a hole through me with his eyes. At the burial, when he asked everyone to bow their heads and recite the Our Father, he just glared at me as I didn't bow or say a word. I wanted to just give him the finger, but it wasn't the time or the place.

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Permalink Reply by Jaume on December 11, 2009 at 7:46am

Sucks I had no say in it when I was splashed with magic water at the ripe old age of 6 days.

Guess they're too afraid for you to make the wrong choice - pick wine in lieu of water and become an Alcoholic instead of a Catholic.

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Permalink Reply by Dave Rogers on December 11, 2009 at 8:36am

I guess that would make alcoholic, pedophile priests pedoalcocathoholics.

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Permalink Reply by Loren Miller on December 11, 2009 at 8:39am

Gesundheit!

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Permalink Reply by Grooving on December 22, 2009 at 2:07pm

Sue them! Make a case out of it.

Actually, it does matter. The polls are based on what these people claim - more numbers makes them look more powerful than they are.

And, if you do sue (what a great case) keep us posted...

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Permalink Reply by Dave Rogers on December 22, 2009 at 3:10pm

The Catholic Church has enough problems paying out buggery claims. What lawyer is going to sue them over this? It's hard to show I've had pain and suffering over still being considered a catholic.

It might be easier to start an ex-Catholic registry that people sign so a running total could be kept track of. But don't look at me to start that either.

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