Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor thinks I'm not fully human

[andrewducker]

Does this mean I don't have to pay taxes?

Comments

[a-pawson.livejournal.com]

Only if we elect the pope to be Prime Minister.

[andrewducker]

Almost tempting...

[princealbert.livejournal.com]

Its times like these I like to take their little wafer and walk out the church holding it, and when I get outside with the flesh of their Lord its still a tasteless little biscuit.

[stevegreen.livejournal.com]

So his God creates humans, only they're not fully human because they don't believe in God. Time for a factory recall?

[skington.livejournal.com]

No, but it does mean that drug companies can perform excruciatingly painful experiments on you. So convert now, sinner!

[khbrown.livejournal.com]

Are infants, children, the mentally retarded and/or those suffering from dementia, each of whom can presumably not, or no longer, think adequately about the transcendental thus not fully human either?

[cybik.livejournal.com]

Wow. That's quite, um, insulting and very scary.

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

I have seen a suggestion that it's slightly less obnoxious than it sounds because he really means, 'not fulfilling our potential as humans.' Hmm.

[whumpdotcom.livejournal.com]

No, that's still damned insulting.

[andrewducker]

I suspect that he means we're disassociated from a vital part of the human condition - and that that diminishes us as much as not being in touch with our emotions would.

Which means I would merely disagree with him, rather than being horribly offended.

[vereybowring.livejournal.com]

You're only in trouble if you listen to mad cultists.
N.B. The size of the cult makes no difference.

[cdave]

Yeah Bloody Cultists. I'd never join a cult. Especially a mad one.

We're a collective.

[andrewhickey.livejournal.com]

Sorry to be an unutterable pedant, or to miss the joke if it was one, but that's Cormac Murphy O'Connor. Cormac McCarthy is the novelist who wrote No Country For Old Men...

[andrewducker]

Gah! Thanks - fixed.

I'm awful with names. Really, really awful.