Meat the Fockers

Last year we had a little blog about Ash Wednesday and various Lenten restrictions imposed by the Catholic Church.

Well you'll be happy to know if you subscribe to the Church and its rules and regs that you will be able to eat meat on Friday, March 17, 2006.

That is St. Patrick's Day, and you are no doubt planning on having a corned beef and cabbage snack in between the mass quantities of beer that you will be drinking.

WELL, IT'S OKAY!!

You can eat all the meat you want even though it's a Friday in Lent. So go for seconds or thirds at the steam bar and throw down as much corned beef as you can!

Which brings me to a suggestion I would like to present to the Cardinals and Bishops:

Many people are vegetarians, so not eating meat on Fridays during Lent doesn't mean anything to them because they don't eat meat anyway.

I propose that Roman Catholic vegetarians be FORCED to eat meat every Friday during Lent under pain of mortal sin, and hence, eternal damnation.

Giving up meat is no sacrifice for them, but eating it would be. Why should meat eaters have to sacrifice their carnivorous appetites and vegetarians not have to make any sacrifice at all?

To get this rolling, I would like to propose that all Roman Catholics be forced to eat meat on St. Patrick's Day and that includes vegetarians. Those not complying would be guilty of mortal sin and their milk bottle souls would be blackened.

I think it's an equitable idea, and I look forward to feedback from the Church's hierarchy.