Oct 01 2007
The fence between Church and State
I’m a recent addition to the artists on Pirates Alley. I spent a significant amount of time and money at city hall acquiring my permit be a legal art pirate. Unfortunately, I haven’t sold anything from the fence. Therefore the city hasn’t made any tax money from my sales and I’m still in the red.
Late morning I was going to get a sandwich, so I walked over to my friendly fellow artists to ask them to keep an eye on my work for a few minutes. They were sitting in lawn chairs having a deep conversation with Sister, err… Father John. John was having a gay time bad mouthing someone. I didn’t want to intrude so I stood waiting for a break in Johns speech. The artists smiled at me but immediately returned their attention to the priest who marrily ignored my presence. I’m accustomed to the one way conversation of priests, but I find to not even make an eye contact acknowledgment, rather rude. I continued to wait for a good time to break into the diatribe to ask my new friends for their guard eye.
John said, “from the back of the Cathedral we can hear everything they say. It’s just ridiculous. The Haunted History Ghost tour guides make up stories. There were no duels in the court yard in the past. The police barracks used to be right here, along with the prison. And when people die on church ground they don’t go strait to hell. I don’t know, that sounds like a Muslim belief. They just make things up from their imagination.” I couldn’t resist the opportunity to break in and since he had already been rude to me I felt justified. I asked in a robust and animated manner, “Do you see the hypocrisy in what you’re sayin’?” John replied, “They lie about the history of their ghosts!” I said that was exactly what the Church does except the Church presents it as fact, not as an entertainment. John said he wasn’t going to have that conversation. Continue Reading »
