The sinners are doing well: the saints are not

[matrixrefugee]

These two lines from one of the more recent entries on interdictor's LJ made me laugh, albeit in black humor way.

"- The strip clubs are open on Bourbon Street.

"- The Saints fumbled away another game."

Now I *know* the Saints here is the Louisiana football team, but I couldn't resist reading some mischievous Catholic humor into it, as in "Hm. Does the fact that the saints are fumbling stuff up have anything to do with the strip joints reopening?" I bet Walker Percy would have similar thoughts... Not that I see anything wrong in strip-teasing for your spouse in the privacy of your own home, though I know some extremely morally uptight people would disagree with me. That's okay: they're entitled to their opinion, I'm entitled to mine. I don't remember anything in canon law that says all your intimate encounters have to be PIV, missionary position, lights out, under the covers. Why not have a little fun once in a while to keep the fires lit between you and your spouse? It's stripping in public or semi-public, in front of a bunch of total strangers that's morally objectionable.

Hey, we could use a little wierd humor to keep us going through these trying times....

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Hey they call it gallows humor for a reason.
~Weaver

[tortillafactory.livejournal.com]

You know, it makes me sad that your opinion is contraversial. Some people need to review Song of Solomon.

[matrixrefugee.livejournal.com]

Amen to that! But I *did* run across a really good website put together by Evangelical Protestants who'd basically pointed out that if certain activities aren't explicitly forbidden in the Bible, then at least for a married couple, they're okay. They even went into stuff like Kama Sutra positions and BDSM techniques: I was shocked in a good way (as in delightedly shocked). I'd finally found some folks who think the way I do... if only I hadn't lost that link when my computer got spyware bugs last year.