(December 12, 2019 at 8:05 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: If they can't keep the doors open and the lights on to perform their weekly magic spells, then those poor people will end up going to hell, or worse, to the protestants.
So, you see, from the vaticans POV, all of their expenses are a charitable cause.
Reminds me of a very old joke:
Old Dan, long a bastion and fierce defender of the local Catholic church is on his deathbed and his son offers to send for the priest. 'Nah, lad,' says the old man. 'Go and get the Anglican vicar in the next village. It's time I converted.'
His son is shocked by the news and desperately tries to talk Dan out of his planned apostasy, but to no avail. The vicar arrives and baptizes the old fellow into his new faith. The son is absolutely distraught. 'How could you, Da? All of your long life, you've held true to the One True Church - Mass twice a week, teaching the Catechism, observing the sacraments, and keeping the saint's days. WHY would you become a Protestant?'
'Well son, I figure if someone's going to die, better one of them than one of us.'
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson