“It’s funny because it’s true!” – Homer Simpson
I’m sure our Roman Catholic brethren have similar experiences of over-enthusiastic converts …
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“It’s funny because it’s true” is a funny line. But I’m not sure it’s an accurate one. Dilbert, for example, is often so true that I suspect its author has spent time as a fly on the wall at my place of employment. It’s like, “How does he know?” I mean, sometimes the Pointy-Haired Boss says things I’ve actually heard managers at my company say. Almost to the letter! This does make Dilbert prett funny, I must confess. But it also makes it painful. (It only hurts when I laugh.) As my colleagues and I like to put it, “Dilbert would be funnier if it weren’t so TRUE!”
But anyway…sorry for rambling. I guess I should read Byz Texas’s piece…to see if it’s as funny-but-true as Dilbert. :-)
OK, read it (up way too late!)…very cute and funny.
We RCs do have some zealous converts who go all traddie on us. Truth to tell, though, I’ve encountered them mainly on the Internet. The real-life converts I know are pretty cool. They like to start parish Bible studies and stuff. :-)
Homer Simpson is right on this Onion Dome gem.
Orthodoxy’s traditionalism and appeal to men do sometimes attract John Walker Lindh lite types.
But the mindset isn’t limited to that church, to conservative ones or to men!
Once asked a vagante bishop (who when I last checked was sliding out of Christianity into neo-paganism and who has no real church following: no congregations and one or two friends as priests) who’d passed through the Episcopal Church if she ever was in their diocesan ordination process (where a parish sponsors you and your bishop OKs you and then chooses a seminary for you to go to – but you pay for it). Yes, she said; why, she was already in seminary taking courses she could have been teaching, she knew so much.
I thought, ‘The bishop and his director of ordinands must have LOVED you’.