After overhearing some bearded Good Friday heretic abuse the concept of "organised religion," I enquired of this Ishmael if he then favored the alternative: disorganised religion. You can just imagine what a terrible state the poor old monks would find themselves in:
"What the Hell did I do with that bloody Letter To The Ephesians? It's probably fallen down the back of the altar, I'll be bound! You know, somebody really ought to give this Sacristy the once over with a vacuum one of these days, it's like the Catacombs of Saint Detritus in here, Patron Saint of Toxic Waste. What? What's that Brother Magoo? The Veil of the Temple hath been wrent in twain again? Well can't you just nail it back together for now. Jesus Christ! Do I have to do everything around here? And can one of you find a 'caution wet floor' sign, please? Some graceless fool has spilled the holy water and we don't want the faithful slipping and sliding in the aisles and breaking their necks. Oh god, Father Felix will crucify me for this bloody mess."
If you ask me, if we are going to be forced to live with religion, perhaps it is all for the best that there are diverse churches to keep all their specific credos under control?
"What the Hell did I do with that bloody Letter To The Ephesians? It's probably fallen down the back of the altar, I'll be bound! You know, somebody really ought to give this Sacristy the once over with a vacuum one of these days, it's like the Catacombs of Saint Detritus in here, Patron Saint of Toxic Waste. What? What's that Brother Magoo? The Veil of the Temple hath been wrent in twain again? Well can't you just nail it back together for now. Jesus Christ! Do I have to do everything around here? And can one of you find a 'caution wet floor' sign, please? Some graceless fool has spilled the holy water and we don't want the faithful slipping and sliding in the aisles and breaking their necks. Oh god, Father Felix will crucify me for this bloody mess."
If you ask me, if we are going to be forced to live with religion, perhaps it is all for the best that there are diverse churches to keep all their specific credos under control?
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