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   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   On 2026-01-03 06:14:48 +0000, Snidely said:   
      
   > Your Name presented the following explanation :   
   >> On 2026-01-03 00:34:25 +0000, Snidely said:   
   >>> Friday, solar penguin murmurred ...   
   >>>> Peter Moylan  wrote:   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> (Why does your surname, 'Moylan', ring a bell with me each time I see   
   >>>>>> it??)   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> I have some grounds for suspecting that one of my ancestors was a priest   
   >>>>> or a monk. So possibly he could have been a bellringer.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Not a very good priest or monk if he had descendants!   
   >>>   
   >>> But not a unique failing in European history.   
   >>>   
   >>> /dps   
   >>   
   >> From history, both ancient and current, it seems to be one of the   
   >> "rules" of being a priest to screw everybody they can (both literally   
   >> and figuratively).   
   >>   
   >> Of course, the scamming clergy simply "confess their sins" on their   
   >> death bed and all is suposedly forgiven by their mythical God, so   
   >> that's why they just do whatever they want until then ... and that's   
   >> assuming any of them actually believe the pile of complete elephant-poo   
   >> that they spout to their blinkered congregations in their churches.   
   >> :-\   
   >   
   > And you, of course, are flawless, and never guilty of either scamming   
   > or succumbing to temptation, so you're in an excellent position to   
   > posture about other's moral posture.   
   >   
   > /dps   
      
   I never claimed to be "flawless" ... but neither am I a hypocrite   
   priest who goes around doing whatever (including ignore most of the   
   so-called "10 Commandments") I want just because I can supposedly   
   "claim forgiveness" fromm a mythical God on my death bed.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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