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Shepherds don't look after sheep because they love them - although i do think some shepherds like their sheep too much. they look after their sheep so they can, first, fleece them and second, turn them into meat. that's much more like the priesthood as i know it.

-Christopher Hitchens

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Shepherds Don't Look After Sheep Because They

Christopher Hitchens

Shepherds don't look after sheep because they love them - although i do think some shepherds like their sheep too much. they look after their sheep so they can, first, fleece them and second, turn them into meat. that's much more like the priesthood as i know it.

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I'm a vegetarian. you're a what? i don't eat meat. how can you not eat meat? i just don't. he says he does not eat meat. what? no meat? no meat. steak? no... chickens! no... and what about the sausage? no, no sausage, no meat! he says he does not eat any meat. not even sausage? i know! what is wrong with him? what is wrong with you? nothing, i just don't eat meat!

This is precisely the reason for the dissatisfaction of some, who end up sad - sad priests - in some sense becoming collectors of antiques or novelties, instead of being shepherds living with 'the odor of the sheep.' this i ask you: be shepherds, with the 'odor of the sheep,' make it real, as shepherds among your flock, fishers of men.

"yeah, well, if you eat red meat, it stays in your colon for fifteen years!" good! i paid for it; i want it in my ass, okay? i want them to find a meat sweater from my esophagus to my asshole when they open me up in the end! "this guy's covered in meat! he's meat-man! he's meat-tracheotomy-man!"

Trust me, i have not earned your dear rebuke, i love, as you would have me, god the most; would lose not him, but you, must one be lost, nor with lot's wife cast back a faithless look unready to forego what i forsook; this say i, having counted up the cost, this, tho' i be the feeblest of god's host, the sorriest sheep christ shepherds with his crook. yet while i love my god the most, i deem that i can never love you overmuch; i love him more, so let me love you too; yea, as i apprehend it, love is such i cannot love you if i love not him. i cannot love him if i love not you.

We laugh at sheep because sheep just follow the one in front. we humans have out-sheeped the sheep, because at least the sheep need a sheep dog to keep them in line. humans keep each other in line. and they do it by ridiculing or condemning anyone who commits the crime, and that’s what it’s become, of being different.

Is it like gay men go into the priesthood because they figure, well, this'll solve my problem. i can't be a homosexual in the priesthood; it'll just go away. maybe i'll try it with the republican party.

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