There it was, sitting right out in front of God and everybody, surrounded by a ecumenical coterie of priests, bishops, rabbis, vicars, prelates, pastors, sextons, and umbrella-wielding Anglo-Irish fatwahs all of whom were denigrating and deriding the Gospel and the FSM, right there is good old quasi-Catholic Ireland.

But I bought it.

Now I am shunned, excommunicated, branded heretical, cussed out, and my morals, ethics, spirituality, and probable destination in any afterlife have been roundly and completely discussed ad nauseam.]

I'm proud of me, for as Mark Twain said, "Heaven for the climate and Hell for the company."