Catholic Church gone in a breath

Catholic Church gone in a breath 2015-03-13T20:46:09+00:00

When John Holland closed his eyes, made a wish and blew out the 46 candles on the birthday cake his wife made him, he had no idea how badly the rest of his day would go.

In just a matter of hours, classical works by Homer, Ovid and Vergil disintegrated, Europe was overun by Moors and is now under a theocratic dictatorship, works by Michaelangelo and other artists vanished, the slave trade resurrected, his wife ceased to be, and 2000 years of unsaid prayers went unanswered.

He said he wished the Catholic Church never existed.

“That afternoon,I was reading the last page of the Aeneid when all the words vanished off the pages, and the book just crumbled to pieces,” said Holland, a general medical practitioner. Words weren’t the only thing to disappear. Apparently, the letter “J” was also a casualty of the birthday wish gone awry. “I’m known as Ohn now,” he said.

Satirist Maureen Martin strikes again! H/T Julie. Read it all!


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