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My friend *** is in town. He’s around because there’s this big Catholic Convention going on. Not because he’s a chest thumper per se (which he’s far from), but because he’s pretty much part of it. He’s an ordained priest, you see?
Due to that last fact, my usual way of greeting him (MOTHERFUCKERR!!!) elicited a dark, reprobatory glance from my mother, who was present at the time. It’s like being ordained should cast this impenetrable aura of respectability around one, apparently. Like Superman, but with holiness. Spiritual kevlar, if you will.
This is all pretty significant to me, because —difficult as it may be to buy this, particularly in light of my most recent entries— “priest” ranks very high up there in the list of things I could have turned out to be. I won’t go deep into the reasons that drove me away from that, but rest assured, I’m thoroughly convinced I would have made a lousy priest.
I spent 7 years (from the age of twelve ‘til I was nineteen) being part of / working in / leading youth groups in church. Looking back on that now, I shudder to think that *anyone* might have been looking up at me for moral guidance.
I still see most of my friends from that period of my life. We all get drunk together Tuesdays and Fridays.
— sergio on October 13, 2004 
Comments
YOU have to copywrite “Spiritual kevlar” it is one of the funniest things I have heard in a while.
I practised christianism for more than 10 years. Was part of a youth movement too… Read the whole Bible 3 times… Oh I was so onto it!
But I quit.
The girlfriends you had at the time… some kind of celibacy aid?
Slightly off topic: 3 million people congregated on an open plaza to hear mass. No special anti-terrorism whatever… Imagine what would have happened in NY with an event like this.
“Imagine what would have happened in NY with an event like this.”
Probably nothing, but the Bush administration would have done a big deal out of it either way.
On second thought, half the people would probably have ended up in jail, like what happened to the Critical mass bikers.
That was my point. The question should have been: Imagine how th US gov. would have handled an event like this.
The procession passed just outside my office, and I heard one horseman say: “Los terroristas nos la pelan, ahi va la virgen y el cardenal.”, which babelfishes to: “The terrorists us pelan it, ahi goes the virgin and the cardinal.”
Ja ja ja…and I thought Babelfish was getting better at translations…
Well, had it been here in Philly there would have been pleeenty of cops. All talking to each other, drinking coffee and not even paying attention to what’s going on…
Sergio… how does 19 - 12 = 9?… perhaps being spiritual and such made you closer to the light… elongating your life experience…
Anyway… I think that during that time you developed special anti-kevlar gibberish to trash the spiritual aura of priests and the like… you seem to like finding soft spots in religious arguments…
too bad it always ends up in faith…
apparently non-denominational ordinations don’t come with spiritual kevlar. My friends all laughed at me and rolled thier eyes when I was ordained. :(
Maybe I should get one of those groovy collars. . .
Fixed the 9 year thing. Was seven. Am drunk. Head is asplodey right now.
Will come back and comment more coherently later.
One of my close friends is currently on the seminar, on the way to become a priest. He he he, your entry made me think a lot about him. And yes, you are right, a lot of people tend to believe that they just be respected per se…
Anyway, I know Joey likes it when we ask him to fuck off, and make fun of the “marrying God” idea… And his stories are funny, mostly because he tends to ask around stuff that make the priest feel ackward with no real way of answering.
Things such as: “if God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit are one and the same, then, when Jesus was dead for 3 days, so was God… which means that we managed farily well without God around for 3 days… that’s an awful lot of time!, Don’t you think we can just deal without him?”.