Saturday, July 22, 2006
It's hard out here for a priest (or pimp... whatever).
It must be really tiring to be a priest. Not only do you have to deal with church bureaucrasy, you're on call all the time for your "flock." And they depend on your for everything!
If you lead a secular life and have issues, you pay a therapist; you talk to friends; you read books, take a walk... basically deal with the problem yourself. If you're seriously religious, you depend wholly on your pastor/priest/minister to tell you what to do. Holy responsibility.
I think that's yet another reason they should let females become priests. First of all, I know a lot more women than men who would be comfortable with the idea of never having sex again. Second of all, women LIKE hearing people's problems, whereas poor Father Phil has resorted to pasting a bunch of feeble biblical and secular quotations onto a Word doc because he just doesn't have the patience to deal with PT's problems.
Speaking of PT, she's not all bad. Just like so many religious people I've met... she doesn't really read anything but religious texts and publications, and she doesn't know anything about the outside world.
For example, at lunch, some fat Australian asshole was trying to chat her up using Christianity to build common ground. He's a Mormon, so he started out by assuring her that "a Christian is a Christian," whether Mormon or Catholic. It's still all about Jesus.
Then - I kid you not - in the middle of talking about how great it is to be a compassionate Christian, he started bashing Muslims, saying they were godless, violent people who needed to be stopped. And she bought it!
After resisting the urge to pelt him with mashed potatoes as he walked away, I spent 10 minutes re-educating PT on why he wasn't a true Christian, because true Christians - like Jesus, people! - love and respect all people equally - even the freaking Muslims. Also, by the way, Islam reveres Jesus, too. This was a huge surprise to her.
Anyway, it's probably good I'm leaving for the sake of her Catholicism. I gave her at least two lessons in Buddhism already without her knowing... if I was here longer, who knows how much damage I could do.
It must be really tiring to be a priest. Not only do you have to deal with church bureaucrasy, you're on call all the time for your "flock." And they depend on your for everything!
If you lead a secular life and have issues, you pay a therapist; you talk to friends; you read books, take a walk... basically deal with the problem yourself. If you're seriously religious, you depend wholly on your pastor/priest/minister to tell you what to do. Holy responsibility.
I think that's yet another reason they should let females become priests. First of all, I know a lot more women than men who would be comfortable with the idea of never having sex again. Second of all, women LIKE hearing people's problems, whereas poor Father Phil has resorted to pasting a bunch of feeble biblical and secular quotations onto a Word doc because he just doesn't have the patience to deal with PT's problems.
Speaking of PT, she's not all bad. Just like so many religious people I've met... she doesn't really read anything but religious texts and publications, and she doesn't know anything about the outside world.
For example, at lunch, some fat Australian asshole was trying to chat her up using Christianity to build common ground. He's a Mormon, so he started out by assuring her that "a Christian is a Christian," whether Mormon or Catholic. It's still all about Jesus.
Then - I kid you not - in the middle of talking about how great it is to be a compassionate Christian, he started bashing Muslims, saying they were godless, violent people who needed to be stopped. And she bought it!
After resisting the urge to pelt him with mashed potatoes as he walked away, I spent 10 minutes re-educating PT on why he wasn't a true Christian, because true Christians - like Jesus, people! - love and respect all people equally - even the freaking Muslims. Also, by the way, Islam reveres Jesus, too. This was a huge surprise to her.
Anyway, it's probably good I'm leaving for the sake of her Catholicism. I gave her at least two lessons in Buddhism already without her knowing... if I was here longer, who knows how much damage I could do.
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