XPost: rec.arts.drwho, alt.usage.english   
   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   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.   
   :-\   
      
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