It’s 2010, and “Blasphemy” returns to Europe
Posted by on 04/01/10
When I was a kid going to Catholic school in Pennsylvania, we used to tell puerile religion jokes:
Knock, knock.
Who’s there?
John.
John who?
John the Baptist.
At which point you’d get a squirt from a real or imaginary water pistol. Get it?
Clean, innocent fun, like the one about God’s phone number, which you can only “get” if you [...]
Irish, American, and Errant European, Gerald Loftus was a diplomat from 1979 to 2002, and worked in the Middle East, Africa, and Europe. Settled in Brussels, his blog “Avuncular American” looks at America and the world from Europe.