{"id":3576,"date":"2009-10-27T12:34:32","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T12:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2009\/10\/now-it-can-be-revealed-the-order-for-admission-to-heaven.html"},"modified":"2009-10-27T12:34:32","modified_gmt":"2009-10-27T12:34:32","slug":"now-it-can-be-revealed-the-order-for-admission-to-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2009\/10\/now-it-can-be-revealed-the-order-for-admission-to-heaven.html","title":{"rendered":"Now it can be revealed: the order for admission to heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"

I sharp-eyed reader sent this along, and it’s a hoot.
\nBrian Doyle spills the beans in the current edition of Notre Dame magazine<\/a>:<\/p>\n

To be admitted without review by committee: children under the age of 12, sixth-grade teachers, the mothers of triplets, janitors, nuns (all religions), nurses, all other mothers, loggers, policemen with more than 10 years of service, Buddhists (see Appendix A), bass players in rock bands, librettists, gardeners, cartographers, eighth-grade teachers, cellists, farriers, veterinarians, magicians, compass-makers, firemen and firewomen, rare-book-room librarians, cobblers, anyone from the former Gilbert Islands in the South Pacific, breakfast cooks in diners, philologists, proofreaders, administrative assistants and secretaries, sauciers, mapmakers, cartwrights, cartoonists, essayists, people who manufacture thimbles, and Presbyterians (see Appendix B). <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To be admitted after cursory review by committee: archaeologists, Catholics, Jews, doctors (except orthodontists; see Appendix C), plumbers, taxi-drivers, boatwrights, soldiers actually engaged in defending their clan or country from attack or threatened attack, undertakers, popes without children, longshoremen, tugboat pilots, coaches of any elementary-school sport whatsoever (precedence for basketball and Australian Rules football coaches), all other teachers, cellists, anyone who ever worked on an auction for a nonprofit, scuba divers, publishers of children’s books, people from Finland, people who sell life insurance (it turns out life insurance is something really, really close to the Director’s heart), anyone who ever took a tango lesson, hotel doormen, people who brew beer in their bathtubs, child-care-center directors, emergency dispatchers, detectives, monks, anyone in the peanut-butter industry, paddle surfers (female), bus drivers, fishmongers, anyone who ever repaired a copy machine or a child’s bicycle, and any father who ever wiped or bathed a child other than his own without complaint. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To be admitted under the special Mother of the Lord provision (“the back door”): Unitarians, Pete Maravich, exotic dancers, journalists (see Appendix D).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the rest.<\/a> It’s delightful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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