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Sunday, February 22, 2015

How Gators Can Save Your Life During Lent

A lot of people think we Catholics are complete idiots. And there are other people who know we are not, but like to go along with the crowd and pretend we are idiots, accentuating our idiocy as they do with our other faults. We are indeed painted as being so idiotic that we could easily starve to death if we thought we couldn't eat something we caught out in the swamp, for instance, because our imperious and hypocritical leaders might not let us.


Not that he can let a drop of gator gumbo touch his goozlepipe as he informs us here.

As I've suggest several times, I agree with Casella; he sure talks and acts like he is still basically a Catholic. He's angry at the Church, he's obsessed with the Church, and he's obnoxious and condescending toward any Catholic not sucking up to him. Just like a lot of lapsed Catholics. The Orthodox who are repulsed by him aren't put off because he comes across like a Catholic but because he comes across like a Protestant minister.

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  1. KeithFebruary 22, 2015 at 3:59 PM

    Pauli you probably missed this because you are not one of that in-group, certainly I'm not either, but this year the avant-garde, crème de la crème of orthodox Christianity is doing the popular Paleo Diet for Lent - for the toughest, an extremely ascetic bone broth, just one step removed from the quintessentially ascetic 64 oz. Big Air Gulp - or as it's called among those fashionables, Paleo-Lentening.

    I hear Quinoa is simply livid with envy.

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    1. KeithFebruary 22, 2015 at 4:10 PM

      BTW, I probably don't need to point out that the professional ex-Catholicism you describe is nothing but a career in "other-improvement" of the sort I just posted about.

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    2. PauliFebruary 24, 2015 at 11:10 AM

      Yes, that's why I linked to it.

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  2. DianeFebruary 23, 2015 at 7:22 AM

    I thank Thee, Lord, that I am not like those Catholics over there.

    Because nothing says true Lenten piety like Pharisaical arrogance.

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    1. PauliFebruary 23, 2015 at 8:54 AM

      Great point. Also: "But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, that your fasting may not be seen by men but by your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you." In other words, quit bragging on the internet about how hard what you are doing is.

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    2. DianeFebruary 23, 2015 at 12:20 PM

      Amen!

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