I am slogging through a term paper for my theology class on the nature of divine Justice and Mercy. I was tasked with writing twelve pages, and am about 20 pages into it right now, mainly due to long quotes I am pulling from the Summa Theologica and the Gospel of Matthew.
My doorbell rings.
At the door, two Jehovah's witnesses. Their question to me, after introducing themselves:
"Have you noticed that almost no one talks about the Bible anymore?"
"Oh, indeed I have."
I'm sitting at a table in which I have the New American Bible, the Revised Standard Bible, the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the Compendium of said Catechism, and three volumes of Aquinas' Summa Theologica (the Secunda Secundae, which includes his treatise on the virtues). For backup, I have Etienne Gilson's The Christian Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas, Peter Kreeft's Summa of the Summa and Pope Benedict's Jesus of Nazareth. I am knee deep in the four Gospels.
Come into my lair, said the spider to the fly.
Actually, I told them what I was up to and explained to them that I was involved in writing a paper on how Christ exemplifies the cardinal virtue of Justice. And that, unfortunately, that my paper was late, and I was deep into the Gospels of Luke and Matthew at the very moment. But perhaps we could talk some other time.
I'm not sure if they'll come back.