This is a good response to the Pirate’s comments:

My plan for the rest of the day is to find a member of the ordained class who will hopefully deign to accept my genuflection and interpret the ‘divine words’ to a someone such as me who (I get it now) was ‘laying’ around while they were in seminary somewhere. I’m so grateful to the clergy for being such shining solitary reflections of Jesus these past two millennia. After that I’m going to find a cult to join.

I guess that whole priesthood of the believer thing really means the priesthood of the ordained. When you think about it, there is something really medieval about his view.
Could you guys pray for me today? I have a midterm today and I’m not ready for it. I’m not sure how to study and the stuff that I need to study is complicated. Though, after the Pirate’s comments I wonder, why bother? Maybe I should just bag the test, drop out of seminary and go back to cross stitching (which I had to give up when I entered seminary). My life would be a lot easier, I would even have time for bon bons and Oprah.