On Fri, 19 Feb 1999 13:56:14 -0500 sokol at jhu.edu writes:
>That reminds me of a Hitchens (?) story about a certain Irish atheist
whose
>son was dating a Catholic woman. One day the son told his father that
he
>had a big problem -- he and that woman wanted to marry, but her
condition
>was that the wedding ceremony must be in a church. The father replied:
"so
>what's the problem? Marry her in a church, if she wants. You do not
think
>there is any reality behind that nonsense, do you?"
The actual story concerns some advice that Claud Cockburn gave to Graham Greene. Greene wanted to bone a girl, but she wouldn't let him unless they got married, and she wouldn't marry him unless he converted to Catholicism. The whole story is on pp198-199 of Cockburn Jr.'s The Golden Age is in Us.
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