So, I have a tendency to talk about church-y jesus-y things with the foreigners here, right? And thus they find out I'm going to mass. Some of them are Catholics themselves and are like "I really should know where the church is." Some of them are not but think "Damn, it would be totally hilarious to go to mass in Yemen" and decide they want to go with me. And I take them. (for those who might be disappointed in my consent to the latter, EVERYONE I've taken with my has always been respectable. [Besides, going to mass in Yemen is totally hilarious. I mean, it's Yemen.])
Anyway, back to the story. In my time here, I've cycled many people through the Catholic church here. Today, I ended up taking my two house mates. (Though really, I have a hard time saying that I take them to church. Generally word gets around that I go to Mass and they ask if they can go with me. I'm going anyway, so whatev. come one come all. Besides, it makes dealing with the debab drivers easier if there are more people.)
Wait... where was I? Oh yeah, taking my house mates to church. So, they went with me and afterwards, one of the nuns stops me.
nun & dana:
nun: Did you bring your friends with you?
dana: Oh, yeah. I guess.
nun: Maybe you will be a missionary...
dana: I think I would need to become Catholic first.
nun: Oh, are you interested in becoming Catholic?
dana: Uh. not really.
nun: maybe you will. God knows when you will become a Catholic.
dana: insha'allah.
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the last line was kind of a joke. Though I don't think she got it. insha'allah means "if God wills" and I generally say it to the children if they try to do the conversion speech on me. I generally mean it as an "I will only convert if God literally hits me on the head and says 'be Muslim'" Even then I would have doubts.
So, what I'm saying is that ALL the Cathoics think I will convert. But I don't.
The end.
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Well, you don't have to convert to be a Catholic missionary, but I would suggest working out some sort of commission based system:-)
Isaac
how would that work? like maybe i could get so many indulgences for every person I bring in. and maybe i could save and trade up so many indulgences for a higher place in heaven?
That would be pretty sweet.
Hmm, the problem with your idea is that if indulgences work at all, you probably need to be a Catholic to receive them and/or have them work... Do they even do indulgences anymore? I'd recommend doing just straight cash transactions, it's much more straightforward:-) You could be a head hunter (soul hunter?) for Rome, that would look pretty sweet on a resume..
Isaac
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