This blog post, from Marc over at the previously-highlighted Bad Catholic blog, contains one of the funniest discussions about Catholicism I’ve read (it helps to know that Marc is sarcastic, witty, and devoutly Catholic, in no particular order):
Carol: I spent two years in Austria as a missionary.
Me: That’s great!
Carol: Yeah they had some real problems over there.
Me: Yeah? Are they spiritually dying like the rest of Europe? I thought Austria was still very Catholic.
Carol: Exactly. Like 95% Catholic. Terrible, right?
Me: Uh…right.
(Anna is trying hard not to laugh)
Carol: Yeah, we came to bring the message of the Lord to them.
Me: Oh, those Catholics, they need it brought to them. I’m amazed that they haven’t heard about it before!
Carol: (in enthusiastic agreement) I know! They had shrines everywhere! We tried to stop them, but they din’t seem to understand what they were doing was devil-worship.
Me: (looking at Anna, who knows full well that I am building a shrine in the woods by my house) Stupid Catholics, always building shrines. I bet they were all to that Mary-lady.
Carol: (nods in sage agreement) They’re a very superstitious people.
Read the rest over at Bad Catholic.