A friend of mine died recently, a Catholic friend, someone with whom I had shared many theological discussions with. He had no trouble listening to me babble on about my views and would even chuckle in the face of me bashing his God, or more appropriately, the "pushers of the poison". You must understand, I'm a jerk sometimes. So last Monday I took off work and attended his funeral to pay my respects. Now, I might point out here that I had a fairly strict Catholic upbringing myself, (my…