Maybe He Needed Better Magazines?

Sully, on Pope John Paul II's perhaps hypocritical self-flagellation:

So why is self-abuse inherently wrong when it is done by hand and yet saintly when it is done by whip?

I am not a papal or theologian scholar, but the fact remains that one of these choices totally sucks and hurts like a motherfucker while the other IS TOTALLY FUCKING AWESOME!!!!!!