Wizard of Id by Parker and Hart for August 04, 2024

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    Wizard of Ahz-no relation  2 months ago

    pretty accurate, kings would pay people to pray for them. in Henry V by shakespeare he says words to the effect that each day some 500 penitents raise up their hands to heaven for his sins.

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    oldthang  2 months ago

    This is all news to me—it seems weird to me, but I am fortunately not catholic.

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    Doug K  2 months ago

    Though his sins are nothing to sneeze about, I say, “Gesundheit!”

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    Mediatech  2 months ago

    The indulgences would bankrupt the kingdom, if it wasn’t already in the tank.

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    David Huie Green AmericaIsGreatItHasUs  2 months ago

    Did you hire enough for today?

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    j_m_kuehl  2 months ago

    A Trumpian view of religion

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    rockyridge1977  2 months ago

    Honest king…..did not have to confess that!!!!

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    Space_cat  2 months ago

    Nothing like confessing on Sunday to make up for being a horrible excuse for a human being the other 6 1/2!

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    wongo  2 months ago

    “Let in the hordes”? Aren’t we already doing that?

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    Count Olaf Premium Member 2 months ago

    Happy Birthday Barry Hussein Sotoro. Born 63 years ago in a mud shack in Kenya. Ask the midwife.

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    blakerl  2 months ago

    Well I’m not catholic so I do not have to confess my sins, and that’s a good thing.

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    Goat from PBS  2 months ago

    Business as usual for the Fink, I’d imagine.

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    TexTech  2 months ago

    In the Episcopal Church we have a saying regarding Reconciliation of a Penitent (aka Confession). That saying goes, “All may, none must, some should.”

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    delennwen  2 months ago

    “Get in line in that processional, Step into that small confessional, There the guy who’s got religion’ll tell you if your sin’s original. If it is try playin’ it safer, Drink the wine and chew the wafer, Two, four, six, eight, Time to transsubstantiate!” —Tom Lehrer, The Vatican Rag https :// www. youtube. com /watch?v=3f72CTDe4-0

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    KEA  2 months ago

    it always seemed to me that providing anyone with grounds for blackmail was a very poor idea

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    Godfreydaniel  2 months ago

    I see the racist imbecile is off his meds again…..

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    Walter Kocker Premium Member 2 months ago

    My late secretary (and good friend) was a good Catholic lady – who married a Catholic man and bore him two children. Livin’ the Catholic Dream!

    Later on, her husband had an affair with a nun (I’m NOT making this up!) whom he’d impregnated (very fertile those Catholics!) and subsequently divorced my friend – and married the penguin.

    Oi freaking veh!

    Many years later, my friend met a nice man who was Protestant – who’d proposed – but she would not marry him unless . . . Hullo! The Church came to the rescue! For a measly Ten Thousand Dollar “donation” the Church annulled her “first” marriage so she was free – “in God’s Eyes” – to marry – provided the Protestant agreed that any children they might have must be raised in the Catholic Church. So a mom with two kids had her marriage annulled. Doesn’t that make the kids b*stards?

    Ten thousand dollars was an awful lot of money for a single mom working two jobs and raising two children – her car cost far less, and her car was as much a POS as her first husband . . .

    But it’s good that the Church was there to assist her in her time of need . . . /s

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    M.K.Staffeld  2 months ago

    Least the King’s upfront about it.

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    Billy Yank  2 months ago

    The Pirate King in “The Pirates of Penzance” near the start of the show sings how “Many a king on a first-class throne, if he wants to call his crown his own, must manage somehow to get through more dirty work than ever I do.”

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    geese28  2 months ago

    Hmm 5 times eh? Reminds me of a certain “angel” that had an “I” problem 5 times too

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    Strawberry King  2 months ago

    What a bad, bad boy!

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    Frer Squirrel  2 months ago

    For the confession to be effective, the penitent (e.g. the king here) must describe all his sins, at least in general terms, and truthfully provide further details at the request of the priest, because it must be clear to the penitent and the priest what acts were sinful, and the source of that sin, and to receive Grace to avoid the sin in the future. Sometimes the penitent might think something is sinful that is not sinful, and the priest will say so.

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