Martin Luther Will Not Attend Pope's Funeral

so there!

Published on April 5, 2005 By Gene Nash In Current Events

It appears Martin Luther will not be attending Pope John Paul II's funeral.

I say good for him! They disagreed on so many things. Sure, they had some commonalities like being anti-abortion and finding a trip down the chocolate highway more abominable than a snowman, but so what? Obviously, Marty feels the old dude in the funny hat was just too wrong about too many other issues to pay his respects.

And why should he pay his respects? World leader to world leader? Religious man to religious man? Respected Christian to respected Christian -- even if one did like tutti-frutti while the other preferred vanilla?

Dang, when you think about it, Marty didn't have any business being there anyway. Damned publicity hound! Making a big show of not attending! These political hacks just can't stop for one second can they?

Comments (Page 1)

Eastern Diamondback

on Apr 05, 2005

Extra points from me, Gene. I wouldn't have really gotten this had I not read another article first.

Insightful.

Spc Nobody Special

on Apr 05, 2005

Funny. Of course they do have ONE more thing in common now.............

Gene Nash

on Apr 05, 2005

I wouldn't have really gotten this had I not read another article first.

Ah, the hazards of the "answer article."

Maybe I should have thrown a link out there. But then where would my plausible deniablity go?

kingbee

on Apr 05, 2005

i doubt he woulda been invited after the mess he made nailing 95 feces to the door of the wittenberg schlosskirche

Gene Nash

on Apr 05, 2005

Of course they do have ONE more thing in common now.

This is true.

But as anyone who saw Weekend at Bernie's knows, a little thing like that shouldn't stop a good get together.

Spc Nobody Special

on Apr 05, 2005

i doubt he woulda been invited after the mess he made nailing 95 feces to the door of the wittenberg schlosskirche

Well anything's likely to get messy when you're living with a Diet of Wyrms............

Gene Nash

on Apr 05, 2005

i doubt he woulda been invited after the mess he made nailing 95 feces to the door of the wittenberg schlosskirche

The big sticking point to reconciliation is that he never paid to fill in the extra nail holes.

I hear he also stole a chalkboard from his classroom in the name of "separation of church and slate." Of course, that may just be anti-Protestant rumor mongering.

kingbee

on Apr 05, 2005

he never paid to fill in the extra nail holes

i was about to make some kinda tasteless remark bout nail putty when i saw this...

you're living with a Diet of Wyrms

and even i was mortified. holycards anyone?

kingbee

on Apr 05, 2005

The big sticking point

yall can be really scary at times

Gene Nash

on Apr 05, 2005

Well anything's likely to get messy when you're living with a Diet of Wyrms............

Talk about taking an anti-gluttony stance too far. Oh well, that's what they get for marrying nuns; no domestic skills.

No bedroom skills either, which led to the equally famous "he dicked of worms."

Spc Nobody Special

on Apr 05, 2005

Scarier than two dead religious leaders, pointedly (and with the pope hat, that's really pointy,) NOT attending each others funerals?

They're coming to get you Bar-ba-ra...........

Gene Nash

on Apr 05, 2005

yall can be really scary at times

Just don't know when to stop, do I?

You should see the stuff I censor....

kingbee

on Apr 05, 2005

i'd buy a round of indulgences in hopes of being forgiven for all of the above, but even a jesuit would have a difficult time reasoning his way past the obvious fact we've indulged ourselves beyond redemption.

whan that aprill with his shoures soote
the droghte of march hath perced to the roote,
and bathed every veyne in swich licour
of which vertu engendred is the flour;
whan zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
inspired hath in every holt and heeth
tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
hath in the ram his halve cours yronne,
and smale foweles maken melodye,
that slepen al the nyght with open ye
(so priketh hem nature in hir corages);
thanne longen folk to pun upon blogges

shadesofgrey

on Apr 05, 2005

Thanks for the laugh Gene, Nobody and Kingbee. That was priceless.

Sir Peter Maxwell

on Apr 05, 2005

I also hear that big-chinned fool Charles V will not be going either as he is planning to sack Rome on Friday.

As a faithful English Protestant, I admire Luther for his condemnation of the Peasants Revolt, splendid behaviour. The way he fired them up and then deserted the plebs is quite admirable.

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