Once again, funny but sobering.
Well, we hope certain people would sober up anyway.
Thomas E. Woods, Jr. would like your post, I am sure. (LINK to amazon.com)
Very nice, Maureen.
It's my birthday today, so I'll use my wish to reverse his wish!
Great story. made me laugh
At what point does he run away from Clarence and start to pray?
Because you know, every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings.
Best post yet ... and that's saying something because they've all been great!
Ulie D.,
I agree. Great job, Maureen. Very clever.
oops. That should have read:
Great ob, Maureen.
I'm such a stupid erk. *sigh*
My lord! What happened. Okay I will ease up on the RC's a little.
Yikes make it go back. Wal-Mart will seize the opportunity!
Olly good post, Maureen!
Hey don't people live like that anyways next to Disneyland? I would think everyday was one big Godless day of advertizing and entertainment. Whohaha!
...wouldn't that be Newark New Ersey?
Reminds me of the movie "It's a Wonderful Life", I think is the name of it.
eff, ulie D, Rick L. and Linda -- Thanks so much for the nice comments! It is good to see all of you.
Anonymous Joe - Well, actually I haven't read the book, though I have read reviews of it. When I was thinking about writing this post and looked up info about the Church, his book came up numerous times. It looks very interesting, but I don't have a good track record for reading non-fiction.
Susan - Happy Birthday! I hope you are having a great one.
Tom - Actually, I was thinking you would see the allusion to Seinfeld...you know the episode where a Kenny Rogers' Roasters opens across the street from Kramer's apartment and the neon light shines in his window?
Rick - Hey there! LOL You must be a fan of cappucino - or either the letter "J".
Lucy - I don't know. I've never lived near a theme park. However, I have lived near a Super Wal-mart. It was tough.
David - Hello! Welcome! You and Tom must be on the same page tonight. Thanks for stopping by and thanks for commenting.
God bless, Maureen Martin
Was he upset about the Catholic position on contraception? Perhaps he too wanted to take the pill.
Wonderful post!
This is very funny...but you know the scary thing is that I bet there are REALLY be a lot of people who would make that wish. The internet is a great thing but before it I had never realized how many people out there in the world TRULY wish the Catholic Church didn't exist.
Hi Cycles - Thanks for stopping by! I suspect he was one of that Full Effect fringe. He probably hoped by wishing everything away, he could proceed with shoving his face into the cake and eating it.
Of course, you could be right.
Paul - Thanks for you dropping by, and thanks for your nice comment.
Jack - Yeah, when I was converting Catholicism, there were actually people who said things like - "So, you aren't going to be a Christian, anymore." Nah, I've decided to start worshipping Ungit. Aaargh! LOL
Priceless
tee-hee...
It's a tragedy Maureen. With the Moors running France there is no French wine, French bread or French Fries. Probably all we can get now are French Falafels (or freedom falafels if you are a Bill O'Reilly fan).
Chris and MrsDarwin - Thanks for stopping by.
Cycles - But in America you can get all the Big Macs you want now.
God bless, Maureen Martin
Give my espresso, java, beans and nobody gets hurt!
Alternative history time!
The role of the Church in preserving and shaping civilisation cannot be understated. So Ioannes or Yohanan (rather than Ohn, assuming he existed at all) would be in for some suprises, a lot of them nasty.
But if Gibbon was right about the causes of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, the results of this wish might not be quite as depicted.
Slavery might be back, popular ethical standards still those of pagan Rome, gladiators and all, the Christian artistic tradition gone (replaced by alternative evolution of the Greco-Roman one), and England, and thus the USA, never founded.
But you'd likely have much more classical literature surving, and possibly legions under the Prefect of Arabia Petraea crushing some obscure troublemaker back around 1360 ab urbe condita.
You win some, you lose some?
Hey Rick - LOL. Always good to hear from you.
Hey John - Thanks for stopping by and commenting.
God bless, Maureen Martin
Maureen,
I'm sorry for mixing it up a little in here. This is an inappropriate forum for that, and shame on me for biting at the bait.
Funny except ...
There would be no McDonald's or Wal-Mart. Why? America was colonized by Vikings, but died out. No Catholic Church? No Protestant churches either. No USA. No Americas, period.
The Aztecs are still killing their babies. Wait a minute! That's actually happening ...
Chris,
Unless of course Colamedd Chriseinn sailed the ocean blue in fourteen-ninety-two and discovered a new land which he called the Unexplored Settlement of Albania.
The peoples of the USA are outraged because Waladd-Mart is selling inexpensive Burkas made by non-Burka wearing Chinese women who can actually see what they are doing. Louseinn Dobseinn nightly decries the resulting loss of jobs and unfair trade practices of the Chinese in a segment called Outsourcing Abundance on the Cabalistic News Network (CNN)
Ohn doesn’t like CNN. He prefers to watch Falafel Naturalist News featuring Billamed O’Rehlein’s nonsense zone. Ohn thinks he has a crush on Anna Coultermehd but he is not sure because she just nods agreeable in her Burka. He imagines that Anna is pretty and would probably have a nice voice if she ever spoke.
Hey Chris - Thanks for stopping by and commenting.
Cycles - Wow, you really have the lowdown. LOL I wonder if they ever thought of making an Anna Coultermehd doll? Pull the string, and she just nods.
God bless, Maureen Martin
Hi Maureen:
On a brighter note: Maureen Martin (not her real name) is a successful children’s author who writes about the adventures of an imaginary religious sect called Christians that spend their time arranging flowers on big tables (called altars), burning giant candles and putting on sock puppet shows.
Mrs. Dane married a Canadian. She enjoys a boring but happy life debating the merits of universal health care. Sometimes in the privacy of the bedroom, Mrs. Dane likes to spice things up by wearing her French maid outfit which is a traditional blue burka died with touch of pink.
Mr. Dane married a French Poodle and enjoys drinking strong coffee on the streets of Paris (named after the hotel baroness Paris Hiltommehd).
The Canadians and Danes are at war over a small uninhabited island called Hans Island. (Google it, you’ll see). The Danes say it must be Danish because of the name. The Canadians claim sovereignty over the island because nobody on Hans Island is without health care coverage. Their battles usually consist of them hurling insults while respecting their mutual right to human dignity by refusing to ever interrupting each other. The Canadians declared a major victory when the city of Toronto refused to allow a Danish woman to wear her mermaid costume in the annual health care parade because it perpetuated mermaid stereotypes.
Hey Cycles,
Do you want to take over this blog? I think you have out-ideaed me. LOL
God bless, Maureen
Hi Maureen.
Thank you so much. I would really love to but fear I do not have the time because I am campaigning door to door on behalf of our beloved Prime Minister Rick Barnes of the No Danes Party (NDP). There is a threat from the reactionary right wing Copenhagen Pulmonization Party (CPC) who are running a scandalous "we're almost as boring as the NDP" campaign. Everyone knows that the CPC has no interest in eradicating the objectification of mermaids in Toronto.
In Quebec, Premier Tom Cruise is threatening separation because our universal health care system prescribes scientifically tested drugs instead of vitamin pills. He says that vitamin pills are not drugs, otherwise Brooke Shields would be taking them because she is so big on drugs like tobacco and such.
Alberta is tired of Kelowna shoving it's tolerant Canadian values down our throats. Premier Klein (who I suspect is a tad soft on Danes) says that we should scrap the Kyoto Accord on Global Warming in favor of a made-in-Alberta solution that prescribes doing nothing until humanity is wiped out by a greenhouse feedback loop at which time, none of it will really matter any more.
God Bless you too.
Cycles
Wow.....I need ot go to bed. Cycles you just left me dazed. I don't know if it's that I'm tired or, wow,...... (wait, I think it's just my medication kicking in.) You're good Kid......
Thank you Lucy,
Yesterday I listened to Premiere Cruise of Quebec and took vitamin pills instead of my prescription pills. The results is in evidence for all to see.
Hmmm...didn't Latin typically use 'I' in place of 'J', so that "John" would in fact be spelled "Iohn"? That seems to be the impression I get from what little Latin I've learned, and the many courthouse and university inscriptions I've seen.
Steve,
Classical Latin used the I. However, monks invented the "J." My point in the post is that since there was no Church, there is no J.
God bless, Maureen
BTW, check out....http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/
special_features/hf_jp_ii_xxv_en.htm and note that although JPII used the signature "Joannes", the web master used the classical "Ioannes". Either is correct - unless JPII didn't know his Latin.
God bless, Maureen
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