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Grex Directions Item 14: Joke
Entered by carl on Sat Nov 6 12:29:09 UTC 1993:

Charles Curran, Hans Kung, and Cardinal Ratzinger all died at the same time
and ended up at the pearly gates together, where they were met by St. Peter.
"You guys are too smart for me," said St. Peter, "You will have personal
interviews with Our Lord Himself.  Each one of you in turn must go into
that cabin to be examined by Jesus."
 
Charles Curran goes in first.  After a quarter of an hour he comes out,
looking a little shaken.  "What happened?" ask the others.  "He told me I
have to spend a hundred years in Purgatory," answers Curran and away he goes.
 
Hans Kung goes in next.  After half an hour he comes out, very upset.  "What
happened?"  "He told me I have to spend five hundred years in Purgatory."
 
Finally Cardinal Ratzinger goes in.  Hours pass, and St Peter is beginning to
get curious.  At last the cabin door opens, and Jesus comes out.  "Lord,
what happened?" asks St Peter.  "He told me I have to spend a thousand years in
Purgatory."

7 responses total.

#1 of 7 by carl on Sat Nov 6 12:32:19 1993:

I found this joke on the Internet along with the following explaination:

All three men are theologians.  Curran came under fire recently for denying
Church teachings while he was a professor at an official faculty of theology.
Kung has advanced some pretty serious semi(?)-heresies.  Ratzinger is the
person in charge of purity of doctrine in the Church, "the watchdog on
orthodoxy" to use newspaper terms, and hence the person who takes errant
theologians to task.

#2 of 7 by danr on Sat Nov 6 12:55:26 1993:

Another example of the arrogance of the Catholic Church.  I believe
I'm going to check out the Unitarians.

#3 of 7 by robh on Sat Nov 6 22:37:06 1993:

Yes, the Unitarians would definitely be my choice if I weren't a
tree-huggin' Wiccan fool.  I went to a wedding at the local UU church
a while ago, and I really enjoyed it.

#4 of 7 by vishnu on Tue Feb 22 01:29:42 1994:

I've never been to a Unitarian service, but I saw a Unitarian
flyer downtown that had a quote on it.  I liked it.  It said:

"Wake the fuck up!"

Seems like a very good church.

#5 of 7 by grey on Tue Feb 22 22:07:23 1994:

 
        It's been said before.
 
        "Wakeupwakeupwakeupwakeup"
 
                                -Chorus, Ministry's "N.W.O."

#6 of 7 by vishnu on Wed Feb 23 00:14:41 1994:

Aaah..

#7 of 7 by daniel on Sun May 15 18:17:04 1994:

paralepsis

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