Papal Election Brings End to Worldwide Sin Binge

Flyingcursor · Post by **Flyingcursor** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 2:27 am

Jeff Stallard wrote:If they wanted to sin so much, why did they choose to be religious?! Why not just choose a belief system that allowed for those activities?

You should probably read The Onion. Then you'll get it.

jim stone · Post by **jim stone** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 6:13 am

There is the story about the man who confesses:

'I had sexual intercourse seven times last night!'

'Who was the woman, my son?' the priest asks.

'My wife.'

'But that is not a sin!'

'I know, but I had to tell somebody!'

jim stone · Post by **jim stone** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 6:16 am

There is also a joke among academics (administrators, mostly).

Teaching without research is like confession without sin.
If you don't do the latter you're pretty uninteresting
when you do the former.

jbarter · Post by **jbarter** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 6:54 am

Walden wrote:
Jeff Stallard wrote:If they wanted to sin so much, why did they choose to be religious?! Why not just choose a belief system that allowed for those activities?
Then it doesn't feel as much like sin.

And we all know chocolate tastes better when you're on a diet.

Martin Milner · Post by **Martin Milner** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 7:10 am

Now I know why they've chosen such an old codger for the new Pope; he'll peg out quicker and they can get in some good sinning all the sooner.

Cynth · Post by **Cynth** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 8:21 am

But..but...what about the priests and cardinals and God (if you believe in God)...I mean aren't they all still around to see people sinning? I didn't know the absence of a Pope meant people felt no one was watching or caring what they did.

Maybe this is yet another joke I don't get.

Lorenzo · Post by **Lorenzo** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 8:40 am

IRTradRU? wrote:Papal Election Brings End to Worldwide Unsupervised-Catholic Sin Binge

Did you read this one from the Boston Independent?

A Cardinal of Empty Churches Enters the Papacy
of A Church with an Empty Soul:
Joseph Ratzinger – Benedict XVI or Benedict Arnold?

by E Munz
Autopsies of Dead Faith:

Jeff Stallard · Post by **Jeff Stallard** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 10:24 am

BoneQuint wrote:Are you allowed to choose everything you believe?

Of course! What we believe is the one thing is this entire world that we CAN control (okay, so our bodies too...up to a point). It's scary though, because with that power to choose comes responsibility, and people would rather have an excuse than freedom, so they pretend they have no choice.

Darwin · Post by **Darwin** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 7:50 pm

jbarter wrote:
Walden wrote:
Jeff Stallard wrote:If they wanted to sin so much, why did they choose to be religious?! Why not just choose a belief system that allowed for those activities?
Then it doesn't feel as much like sin.
And we all know chocolate tastes better when you're on a diet.

Get thee behind me, John.

Now, what was that tree that Adam and Eve weren't supposed to eat the fruit of?

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 8:37 pm

Darwin wrote:
jbarter wrote:
Walden wrote:Then it doesn't feel as much like sin.
And we all know chocolate tastes better when you're on a diet.
Get thee behind me, John.

Now, what was that tree that Adam and Eve weren't supposed to eat the fruit of?

the knowledge of good and evil

Darwin · Post by **Darwin** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 7:33 pm

Walden wrote:
Darwin wrote:
jbarter wrote: And we all know chocolate tastes better when you're on a diet.
Get thee behind me, John.

Now, what was that tree that Adam and Eve weren't supposed to eat the fruit of?
the knowledge of good and evil

Right. So ignorance was gonna be bliss--and they blew it.

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