Highlander jokes and cheerful blasphemy

[gryphonrhi]

I'm cooking lamb (what do you expect on Easter?) in a Methos t-shirt and I've been making jokes all morning about 'I killed a thousand. I killed *ten* thousand. Because I like lamb!' ::giggling:: I think you have to be a Highlander fan to snicker this much, though. Well, and then there's all the Marcus and the goat stories my muses have been

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warning: this takes it further... and grosser

[devohoneybee]

When I was first training as a psychologist, my supervisor told me about a priest who had been hospitalized for psychosis: he couldn't stop thinking about how eating that Host (communion wafer) mean that he was "turning God into shit."

Shows you what happens when religion gets too literal. *s*

Re: warning: this takes it further... and grosser

[gryphonrhi]

::cheerful:: Well, I'm told that Christ's nature is spiritual and ephemeral and nourishes the soul, not the body, therefore this should not be a problem. Myself, I think it explains the prevalance of the phrase, 'Holy shit!'

Re: reactions from one recovering Catholic

[gryphonrhi]

It, um, does play havoc if you try to run with the logical implications, I have to say. Condolences?

[ars_longa]

I think Hainlein wrote about that in his Stranger In A Strange Land quite a number of years ago...

If you only were familiar with Eastern (Orthodox) Christian Church. I sometimes wonder if there anything left of Christianity in it at all, 'cause paganizm surely have got its victory in the long run...

[gryphonrhi]

Some of it Heinlein covered, yeah.

And no, I don't know much about the Eastern Orthodox Church. Well, I know they have a tradition of considering Mary Magdalene one of the major disciples, and they used to (? still do?) bless homosexual unions because they have a pair of gay saints, but other than that, no, not much. But the entire Christian church is pretty well pagan.

[ars_longa]

Um, that's actually news to me. Never heard of that. :) I'd say it's rather homophobic and always was...

And Mary Magdalene has a title "ravnoapostol'naya" in the Orthodox Church, which means "equal to apostols", so I'd say it's true. But I was referring more to the rituals and the way this Church selebrates and some of the spiritual trends... they are outrageously pagan in nature. Not that I care :) but I find it rather amusing.

[gryphonrhi]

No, they went homophobic after the Western church did. But there are still church records of the blessing cermonies they'd do for the male/male couples. Not a full wedding, but pretty close. (Found that, to my surprise, in Same Sex Unions In Preindustrial Europe, by... what was his name? Drat. Sorry, would have to look it up after I move again. ::sigh::)

Oh, the Western Church is thoroughly pagan, too: the Yule tree, and the hunting of the sparrow on St. Stephen's Day, and the Easter eggs, and the passover lamb at Easter, and the loafmass on lammas day... It's pretty amusing. Except when I know more about their church than they do. Then it's annoying and depressing.

[tazlet]

And did you notice that if you add the notion that JC is "of the substance of God" then you have god sacrificing himself to himself...

[gryphonrhi]

Yup, you do. And it's not the holy water so much as the holy blood. Makes some of the ritual magic -- and the old building dedications -- make more sense.

[lomedet]

yeah...I've always been a bit squicked by various pieces of christian mythology/iconography. I don't talk about it much, 'cause of well, professional considerations. ;-)

but more importantly - were you by any chance inspired to *write down* the 'Marcus and the goat' story your muses were telling you? I've been wondering for *years* exactly what Alex and Xan were thinking when they pulled that one.

[gryphonrhi]

::g:: Whereas, I'm not a professional, just a well-read amateur. But I do see your problem.

::lol:: I have *got* to write that, don't I? Lord. Marcus, the twins, that poor city boy, and the poor goat(s). (And they were a. drunk and b. sick of being in Brittania.)

[lomedet]

I have *got* to write that, don't I?

yes, please.

can I offer you baked goods? chocolate? a massage? my second-born?

i'm finding that the particular brand of insanityhumor I associate with Alex and Xan is missing in my life these days. I suppose I could endeavor to make some of my own, but coming up with bribes for you is much more fun.
(diamonds from the deepest ocean? spanish boots of spanish leather?)

[gryphonrhi]

Erm. I'll try to get to it? ::Shaking head:: It's so thoroughly silly that I've been going, 'er, what plot?' and not writing it. You're kidding. You want to read this?