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Tom Flynn wants excommunication!
Posted on: January 26, 2009 - 7:01pm
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Tom Flynn wants excommunication!
Flynn grew up Catholic and even underwent baptism. He wants the Church to excommunicate him officially under Canon Law 1364:
But he's not gotten any cooperation from the Church, and he'd like some advice.
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I know you're being serious but "Every Sperm is Sacred" started playing on my mental mp3 player. Thanks.
"I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions."
— George Carlin
Submitted through their email system:
Subject:
I am willing to help Tom Flynn get excommunicated.
Body:
Greetings to whomever gets this. If he has not already managed to get the attention of the church authorities on the matter, I can hook him up.
As it happens, I am a full on hard atheist. Using the Richard Dawkins system, I am a level 7.
Past that, I am also an ordained minister in the Universal Life Church as well as a High Priest of Satan and a member of the Temple of Set. So he has a choice as to which heresy he wishes to commit. He only needs to hook up with me for a few minutes for it to be official.
If the communion wafer is important to the process, he can buy a pack from whatever religious service he desires. Through my ULC affiliation, I can consecrate them to god jr. and then I can jizz on them. I am willing to provide photographs of cum stained wafers if that helps. I just need the wafers sent to me to make it official.
If any of your other members feel the need for similar services, I can hook them up also. I happen to be a huge fan of orgasms and having one over some communion wafers is really not that big of a deal to me.
Done.
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The Catholic Church has a habit of not doing anything when there is nothing that needs doing. (Set the obvious snide comments aside, for a moment.) Thus, Mr. Flynn--and myself--are both as excommunicated as can be. The latae sententiae means that the excommunication in question occurs automatically, without anyone doing anything further. Just deconverting from Catholicism to atheism is enough; I do know of one person who, instead of deconverting entirely, became a Hindu, and got a letter of official notification that they had been excommunicated. But even in that instance, there was no "excommunication ceremony," if you will. Even the letter was unnecessary; the person had been excommunicated, not by ceremony, not by letter, but by the very fact of...well...becoming an ex-Catholic. That is as "official" an excommunication as any. Really...what does he want...to be formally kicked out of Mass?
Conor
P.S.: If he's thinking of some sort of he-can-never-get-back-in type of thing, he can forget it; no such "excommunication" exists, to my knowledge.