We are lazy, and we are proud of it! For too long the Catholic Church has persecuted those who share our orientation towards work (we turn our backs on it). However, we in the LBDN - Lazy Blighters Doing Nothing - Community are now ready to take action - although obviously we won't do very much.
Posters like this will soon be seen everywhere. Or maybe we won't bother.
Is it really right in this post-Vatican II era that Sloth should be a deadly sin? Why do the Catholics refuse to marry people who won't make the effort to go to church? Why should lazy people be prevented from taking communion, just because they stay in bed all day? For too long the Church has shown institutionalized Acediaphobia! Well, times are changing, and we slobs are coming out of the closet, although we'll probably be having a lie-down soon!
London's Sloth Pride March! Unfortunately, nobody turned up.
We have the support of many senior clergy. We got someone to write a letter to Vincent Nichols, asking if he would give us a special church in the Westminster Archdiocese, where Sloth Masses could be held (we could watch them on television, of course). Cardinal Nichols showed true Sloth Awareness by not bothering to answer us. Likewise, in America we approached Cardinal Dolan; he was on a "Gluttony Pride" march at the time, but he did make us feel welcome.
See! Sloth Masses are just like any other!
We even asked the Holy Father to dash off an encyclical for us, perhaps to be called Panem Otiosa. (I must look that up sometime, I'm told it's from Proverbs 31:27.) If he doesn't do it, we'll know he's supporting us by his actions! Indeed, Cardinal Grech has already told us that we have the full support of the Pope, and that the 2024 Synod on Synodality will welcome spokesmen for the lazy, the idle, the slothful and the work-shy. Not that any will be turning up.
Equal rights for the Lazy!
Sloth Pride!
This is an updated version of a piece originally published in 2015.
The success of this piece will be demonstrated by how few comments you get. In fact, I'm not sure that I can be bothered making one....
ReplyDeleteI couldn't be bothered either.
ReplyDeleteZzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
ReplyDeleteDon't do today what you can possibly put off till tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteTomorrow never comes.
I'd like to sign up for this movement once I get around to it.....
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Perhaps the leading candidate for the Labour leadership, who is a "Catholic" has adopted the sloth policy in his forwarding of religious rights.
ReplyDeleteI am from the upper echelon of Master Sloths - I ran in here and jogged all around the blog because I am too lazy to be lazy, Grasshopper
ReplyDeleteI hope you didn't drop your Widget when you were running around the Blog.
DeleteYou'll need that to finish building your Garden Workshop and Shopping Mall Complex.
Out and proud! Well, proud anyway, out seems a bit too much like hard work.
ReplyDeleteFour days since this post. Get up out of your pit and give us some more spiritaul nuorishment, Exxles.
ReplyDeleteI just can't be bothered.
DeleteOn the subject of sloth: A wise man once said ... um ... oh whatever
ReplyDeleteProverbs 31:27 is something about a wise woman not eating her bread idle.
ReplyDeleteI just thought that you might be interested!
Sloth, sloth, quick, quick, sloth
ReplyDeleteSome sloths are lazy, some sloths are slow,
some sloths have lost all their get-up-and-go.
But Brian was different: full of vigour and vim,
he loved doing work-outs all day at the gym.
Not for him the long lie-in, the post-breakfast slouch,
the lunchtime siesta, the pre-dinner couch.
Brian loved running, and swung between trees
With bulging sloth-muscles and consummate ease.
His sinewy frame - lithe-limbed and elastic-
won him a place in Olympic gymnastics.
The winner’s gold medal was practically his
- if ONLY he hadn’t dropped off for a zizzzzz.
Moral: Nature will out
Geraldine Durrant
I used to just -crastinate, but now I've gone pro-
ReplyDeleteYou win
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ReplyDeleteWell,
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