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Thread #79793   Message #1448775
Posted By: catspaw49
01-Apr-05 - 06:29 AM
Thread Name: BS: Last rites given.... (pope)
Subject: RE: BS: Last rites given....
It's not that I want to dis the Pope as a man, but as part of "Religion"..................well.............

So Christ and Moses show up in New York City and take a ride around town on their way to St. Patrick's Cathedral. They see the South Bronx and cruise through Harlem and see people sleeping in boxes all over town. Arriving at the cathedral they are overwhelmed with the pageantry of it all as high mass is underway in their honor. The Pope has flown in especially for the occasion and Christ remarks to Moses that perhaps one of the rings the Pope is wearing might be worth enough to feed and clothe several families for years. So that's it then isn't it? What would Christ and Moses think?   If you profess to be a man of god and you own more than one suit of clothes while somebody in the rest of the world has none.....you're a shyster man....a con artist with captive audience."
An excerpt from the works of stand-up Philosopher Leonard A. Schneider......aka, Lenny Bruce (one version of a part of the bit he called "Religions, Inc.")

Spaw