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[tree_and_leaf]

Have found wonderfully barbed quotation attributed to the late Herbert McCabe OP, priest, theologian and philosopher:

"There is a depressing tendency on the part of both conservative and liberal Christians to assume that discussions of Christian morality are going to be mostly about sex. Sex is obviously a profoundly important mode of human communication, but to treat of it in isolation from the other social, political, and economic relationships between people is asking for trouble -asking for intellectual trouble I mean; in the practical field it is asking for a quiet life. So long as Christian morality is thought to be mainly about whether and when people should go to bed, no bishops are going to be crucified. And this, as I say, is depressing."

Barbed - but very apposite.

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[tree_and_leaf]

O.o. It's a fine run thing, but I think the comment about stoning adulterers indicates a spoof. There are some very odd things meant seriously on the internet, though, so it's hard to say....

The Sayers quotation sounds more or less right: it's certainly very much in the spirit of her remarks in her translation of Inferno.

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

She actually wrote a whole article: "The Other Six Deadly Sins", which is printed in (I think) Unpopular Opinions. Though she also discussed (and ranted about) the theme elsewhere.

"As years go in and years go out / I totter toward the tomb
Still caring less and less about / Who goes to bed with whom."

[rivrea.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

This was exactly what I was thinking of, and not being able to remember the context started to drive me slightly mad.

[rivrea.livejournal.com]

I think the comment about stoning adulterers indicates a spoof.

Well, it was either that or the carefully chosen Bible quotations in the sections about fisting and pubic shaving that ticked me off!

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