defecating pope and angels

[Jon Ford]

Swift said it best (good Catholic he): "Celia Shits." He meant no 
disrespect, I think-- it's just that knowing our goddesses are human
endears them to us more, creates a more intimate body/mind relationship. 
It's only Puritans who can't handle this.

Jon


>From: Roger Baker <rcbaker@eden.infohwy.com>
>CC: austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
>Subject: Did you know that god is dog spelled backwards?
>Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 15:47:32 -0600
>
>
>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14068-2002Jan8.html
>
>BARCELONA, Spain -- Placing statuettes of defecating people in Nativity
>scenes is a Christmastime tradition so old and so strong in Spain's
>Catalonia region that even the Roman Catholic Church here doesn't dare
>try to ban it.
>
>When an exhibit of the figurines in a California museum sparked an angry
>denunciation from a Catholic group in the United States, Catalonians who
>cherish the tradition came ardently to its defense.
>
>"Unfortunately, there are intolerant people who are offended by any
>little thing," Josep Maria Joan, director of the Toy Museum of
>Catalonia, said Monday. His museum has a permanent collection of the
>figurines, known as caganers.
>
>Spanish artist Antoni Miralda's exposition "Poetical Gut" at Copia, a
>food, wine and arts museum in Napa, Calif., features ceramic figurines
>of the pope, nuns and angels with their pants down, squatting over their
>bowel movements...
>
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