I have. It wasn't stated directly, but the message was clear.
My friend killed himself, and his parents were Catholic. The priest didn't bother with any comforting words and instead spent the entire eulogy comparing my friend to Judas Iscariot, because they both killed themselves. When a Catholic sits there comparing someone to a man that Dante describes as being confined to the lowest level of hell getting chewed on by one of the three heads of Satan, the subtext is clear.
The guy is lucky I was still in shock, or else I'd have probably blackened his eye.
My friend killed himself, and his parents were Catholic. The priest didn't bother with any comforting words and instead spent the entire eulogy comparing my friend to Judas Iscariot, because they both killed themselves. When a Catholic sits there comparing someone to a man that Dante describes as being confined to the lowest level of hell getting chewed on by one of the three heads of Satan, the subtext is clear.
The guy is lucky I was still in shock, or else I'd have probably blackened his eye.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
