Look, I’m as Catholic-friendly as the next guy (and the next guy is sleeping with a Catholic, so that’s pretty friendly1) but this whole discussion is driving me crazy. And believe me, if you don’t like me when I’m drunk, you really won’t like me when I’m crazy.

I find the insinuation that sex and human reproduction are somehow intrinsically impure and unholy – which is what’s behind the whole line of reasoning that says that Mary was somehow too worthy to conceive and deliver a child by a human father after having Jesus – to be highly offensive and insulting. These ideas are far more offensive, at their root, than words like “f—-” or “s—-” or “a———-,” and it astounds me entirely that that anyone would threaten to quit the tavern over the later and completely ignore the former. What the hell have we become here? Where the hell are the cat pictures when we need them?

I’ve been reduced to extreme measures before. I’m prepared to use the “nuclear option.” I still have Church Dogmatics handy, and I also now have all of have Dooyweerd’s New Critique and Woody Allen’s Without Feathers just itching to be posted, so change the subject, please, or I’ll change it for us.

1 I support ecumenicalism whole-heartedly. I am not in principle opposed to sleeping with a Catholic, should the opportunity come up.