[Mad Dawg]

When I was a pepsicola priest, I got the notion that people at once thought (a)That I didn't know where babies came from, much less what sin was, and that I never thought ill of anyone, and (b)that I saw sin under every turned stone.

The silly ideas that people have are not hindered by their lack of coherence or their mutual exclusivity.

[tiki]

I see Christians doing it too. I was recently “informed” that a guy who is active in our parish used to be a druggie. I think they were trying to shock me and make me not like him. I said, good for him! By all appearances he is getting his life together.

I think the last straw for my brother was when one of his students committed suicide. At the funeral the minister kept actually saying that the kid was in hell and that other’s needed to learn from his mistake. My brother says that if that is how God is he wouldn’t want to be in Heaven. I pointed out that he is choosing to take one person’s interpretation as Gospel.

What I think fitting is that this person’s classmates actually went to the podium and physically removed the pastor and continued the service. I personally think that they did the Christian, loving thing and were the example of Christ.

A friend of mine was telling me that in confession one day she brought up a sin that she had previously confessed thinking that the priest would remember and get her drift, he told her that it is his job to forget.