From: stoesser@i31s21.ira.uka.de (Achim Stoesser)
Newsgroups: alt.atheism,talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Short, shameful confession
Date: 25 Jul 1992 11:54:10 GMT
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG
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Sorry for the followup to my own article but I had the time to look up some
details.

In article <14opgfINNq3o@iraul1.ira.uka.de>, stoesser@i31s21.ira.uka.de
(Achim Stoesser) [me] writes:
|> In article <1992Jul23.165154.4435@cs.ucla.edu>, jperry@oahu.cs.ucla.edu
|> (John Perry) writes:
|> |> that comic o' the ages (Achim Stoesser) quips:
|> |> >Well, my first thought was "Why does he go to a _hospital_, with so many
|> |> >Catholics praying for him?"
|> ...
|> |>      Because he's Catholic, not Christian Scientist you nit!  Before

What are you? Did you pray for him? Did it help?

|> Well, let's assume that he's a Catholic. Catholics go to Lourdes, don't they?
|> Some kilometers from here Catholics go to a little Bavarian wannabe Lourdes
|> where trees are "bleeding" ("it's _real_ human blood") and the Virgin Mary is 
|> seen now and then. 
|> 
|> Besides, why _do_ they pray if it doesn't cure him?

It was Leo XII who forbade a pock vaccination during an epidemic.

|> |> you astound us with another witticism displaying your apparent lack of
|> |> wit or knowledge of any kind, why don't you cut off all of your fingers
|> |> with a chain saw.  Especially the forefinger on your left hand, as that 
|> |> is the finger closest to the 'f' key.  While you're at it, go ahead and
|> |> cut off your toes and other tiny appendages, and eat the whole lot of
|> |> them for lunch some time.  (does red or white wine go best with your
|> |> own fingers?  depends if you're white meat or dark)
|> 
|> Could you give me some yummy recipes (you know that I'm vegetarian and,
|> therefore, don't have meat recipes). And, please, suggest a substitute for the
|> wine because I don't use drugs.
|> 
|> |>    Now drop for the Pope and give him twenty and an act of contrition.
|> |> 
|> |> I altered your .sig a bit for you.  I suggest you adopt this new one:
|> |> >
|> |> >I'm an anus, atheist, fudge-pacifist, and vegetable.  This does _not_
|> |> >mean that I'd arrange flowers, worship Elvis, let virgins breed with bad
|> |> >breath, or make sense of any kind.  Hugs.
|> 
|> If I wouldn't know better I'd assume that you are trying to insult me. Doesn't
|> the Bible say "Do not call a man a fool" or something like that ;-) ?

Matthew 5:11 "Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and
falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me."
Well, I guess Jesus didn't think of the possibility that atheists could be 
insulted etc. because of him.

|> Funny that you didn't change the "atheist" - of course this word is on the same
|> level as anus, fudge-pacifist, and vegetable. 

There was no need to change the "pacifist" either - as Hitchcock showed (in "A
Lady Vanishes", I think), "pacifist" _is_ an insult.

 							        Achim
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I'm an anarchist, atheist, pacifist, and vegetarian.  This does _not_
mean that I'd bomb kings, worship Satan, let soldiers bleed to death,
or eat fish.