Mome Declares Himself Fallible
Nome, Alaska - In a
surprise announcement yesterday, J.R.”Bob” Dobbs, Mome of the Noman Particular
Church, proclaimed the doctrine of Momal Fallibility.
“What, me infallible?” the Mome
snarked. “Of course Momes can make mistakes. In fact we’ve made some big ones.
Just judge for yourself.”
Sources high in the Noman Particular
Church said that they adopted this doctrine because they needed more wiggle
room’. “We’ve painted ourselves into a corner. It’s high time we ‘fessed up,”
said Ordinal Maustinger, the Mome’s most trusted advisor. “His Holiness has
made a bad call lately, and he needs a face-saving way to back out of the
mess.”
The ‘bad call’ referred to is the
infamous Elvis Clone debacle. “His Holiness sure dropped the ball there,”
Maustinger confided. “We never made sure that that hanky was really one of
Elvis’s; or if the genetic material found there was his; or even how that
genetic material got there in the first place. But ‘Bob’ insisted on cloning,
so we went ahead; after all, he’s the Mome. And the result? Well, let’s just
say that the clone we grew didn’t see things our way. Put it all together, and
it spells M-I-S-T-A-K-E.”
“I am a man, mortal and therefore
sinful,” the Mome confessed to the world. “I say I am fallible, and I say so ex
cathedra. My judgement is not perfect; to claim otherwise is the sin of
intellectual pride. Only God is free from all error – and sometimes I wonder
about Him.”
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