“Dottoré, do you know the prayer that goes ‘I have sinned in thoughts, words, and deeds. By what I have done and left undone’?”
“Yes, I know it!”
“Then let me explain my thinking to you.
You must know first that I have sinned in both thoughts and words, but all the times I cheated on my wife I didn’t leave anything undone. I confessed every time, so, technically, I am not a sinner!”
“I’m not an expert on these things, and I don’t mean to judge, but if you say you sinned in thoughts, actions, and so-called confessions of omission — but that you’re not a sinner, then what does that technically make you?”
“An a**hole!”
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