BC,
 
You're doing it again.
 
We all know you have your problems with the Catholic Church, but it's like you're looking for a fight.
Kind of like wandering into some redneck bar in Knuckledrag and proclaiming allegiance to Satan
and the Communist Party.
 
Ok time to rationalize an issue and clarify a point.
The fact that James Cromwell was playing a bishop was superfluous.
He could have just as well been a mendicant priest visiting from stint out of town. 

I didn't make him a bishop to enhance the absurdity.
That's the story TV's Number One show presented.

He performed the Last Rites on a dying man. That is the right of any believing Catholic.
If anyone truly seeks forgiveness and redemption, the priest is bound to offer.
The key there is 'truly.' Just saying you're sorry because you are afraid of eternal
damnation is not usually enough.  However, lacking clear evidence to the contrary,
the priest gives the dying man the benefit of the doubt..  He offers the rites and offers
a prayer that the penitent is truly sorry.  After that it is up to God.

You're still ignoring the point.
Why would you write multiple letters and skip the point?
Kovic wanted to know why the scared asshole with good luck
gets a better deal than the truly innocent. The bishop refused to answer
that very simple question and you have chosen to dance around it.

I'll answer it, since you're not able:
It's a goofy-as-hell system where the lucky guy wins.
You spin the roulette wheel, and the lucky guy gets Heaven
and the unlucky do eternity in flames.

Compare this to the evangelical Christian practice of offering redemption to anyone who says he
believes in Jesus. One doesn't even have to say you're sorry.  All you do is say "I believe" and all is forgiven.
Yet that same bunch will criticize Catholics for offering a chance at forgiveness on a deathbed.
 
"High ranking" had nothing do with that scene.
At least you didn't look for a way to say the guy must have given money to the Church.

I didn't say it because it didn't happen.
I don't invent Catholic absurdities - there's not enough time...
 
Until someone comes to your door and says join the Catholic Church or we'll burn down your house.
Or read these Catholic prayers in schools or we'll beat up your children.
Maybe you should point your religious sites elsewhere.
 
Otherwise, keep the fires burning.
 
AJC
 

AJC, if I stop pointing out absurdity and hypocrisy
there won't be a lot left to  bartcop.com  besides the cartoons.

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