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To: Eleutheria5

The point of the “joke” is that the terrorist (rightly) views it as a sin and the priest (wrongly) views it as a legitimate political act and then ends up with a terrible pun—the Stations can refer to either the Stations of the Cross, which in days gone by would not have been an unusual penance for confession (it is a meditation on the Passion that ought to take 10-12 minutes) or to the train stations.


80 posted on 07/23/2018 4:50:27 PM PDT by Hieronymus (It is terrible to contemplate how few p.oliticians are hanged. --G. K. Chesterton)
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To: Hieronymus

I know, although I didn’t at first get the double entendre about stations. My counter-joke was that a Muslim terrorist would not go to Catholic confession, or consider blowing up a train a sin.


84 posted on 07/23/2018 9:32:16 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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