Tom Flynn .... Loki wants to help you!

For those of you who don't already know of Tom Flynn, he is the editor of Free Inquiry which is published six times a year by the Council for Secular Secularism. It is a great read and I highly recommend it - you can order a subscriptions through their website at: http://www.secularhumanism.org/

Mr. Flynn has an Op-Ed column in the February/March 2009 edition entitled Let My Person Go! which humorously describes his efforts to be excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church. The following is my open letter to Mr. Flynn:
Dear Mr. Flynn:

I am The Atheist Missionary and I really enjoyed reading about your efforts to achieve excommunication from the Holy See. I just wanted to let you know that our family pet, Loki the schnoodle (who was named after the norse god of mischief and evil), is ready, willing and able to assist your cause. Loki eats anything and everything but she has never had the opportunity to devour a real consecrated communion wafer. She is quite excited about the prospect and is hopeful that you would be kind enough to send her one or more. She has even indicated a willingness to allow her feast to be videotaped and posted on the internet for all of our Roman Catholic friends to enjoy (although, to be frank, I suspect most of them don't care -do you really think more than a small percentage of them believe in transubstantiation or can even spell it?)

In order for you to use Loki's insatiable appetite to your heretic advantage, might I suggest that you declare your intentions to the Church. If that is not enough for them to turf you, begin anonymously collecting the canine cookies at various parishes. Each time a biscuit is mailed to Loki, it would be nice to know where it came from and, of course, it would only be polite to let the Church know. Just imagine, you might end up triggering a wave of holy pet feedings across North America.

If you can spare a little bit of the actual body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ for Loki, just let me know and we will make the feast happen.

Best regards,

The Atheist Missionary

P.S. My father converted to Catholicism when I was 13 (Freemason remarries a Mick and becomes an Orangeman ... go figure) and was sorely disappointed at my failure to accept his adopted faith. However, I did win the Grade 12 prize for religion in my boys' only Catholic high school. It only took a bit of transubstantiation and infallibility to get my brain juices flowing. However, I've always wondered why they didn't teach us about the Inquisition?