A young man complaining he got roughed up by an old lady is not the flex he thinks it is.
Reminds me of a scene from Night and the City. A plaintiff who is a 6’4" giant accuses a skinny 5’4" (with less than half the mass of the giant) defendant of beating him up. The judge hisses to the plaintiff’s lawyer: “Get the fuck out of my court!”
On the one hand, I feel bad for her and angry that she was treated this way. On the other…what did she expect? That she’d get a special exception just bc she’s a good Christian seems ridiculous. Very blind of her.
Agreed. I mean, it’s fucking Liberty University - probably the most famous evangelical school in the country. They’re known for being ultraconservative dickheads.
Another example of what happens when misplaced faith meets reality.
You misspelled radical reactionary [dickheads].
That is an accurate statement.
It is. Unfortunately, looking for the living embodiment of Jesus’s teachings at Liberty University is like looking for a vegan restaurant at Smithfield Market - you might get lucky but the odds are not good.
Gods don’t create people, but people create gods.
“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him” – Voltaire.
Voltaire and Pascal would have been good god-buddies if they had lived at the same time.
Do I smell a new time-traveling show for Great American Pure Flix?
Just some good, old-fashioned misogyny! It never goes out of style! And I’m sure the Pope and the Church will quickly reprimand this wayward man of the cloth!
To be honest, I had no idea the Catholic church had ever allowed female altar servants. And I am nominally Catholic *. Fairly traditionalist Jesuit Catholic, though, my family includes an uncle whio was the lead Jesuit in Zimbabwe.
I went to a High Anglican school, which is almost indistinguishable from Catholicism, except for some brou-ha-ha about Henry VIII and divorce; we did not have female altar servants.
We had an affiliated girl’s school (mine was all boys) and we shared a common priest. At services at the girls school, the priest (“chaplain”, to be more accurate) did all the various tasks himself.
* nominally Catholic means I am gambling my eternal life on being a) circumcised**, b) baptised, and c) confirmed***.
** until really recently, I thought this was the norm for Catholics. All the Catholic males I knew were chopped. Apparently it is not canon. The Irish Catholics who had a stronghold on our area (both the priesthood and a huge nunnery) encouraged it. Not sure why…
*** what can I say? I was at a boarding school. Anglicans who got confirmed got an extra weekend off as a once-off for the event. Our small Catholic presence demanded the same treatment.
This extra weekend away from school brought the time we were allowed home from 3 times every 13 week term to a once-off 4th weekend.
I apologize for this one-post hijack, but: as a Jew, I never understood Christian guys who didn’t get circumcised. I mean, take circumcision out of it for a moment — heck, take religion out of it for a moment — and just imagine that you’re going through a hard time, and that I help you out while relaying some profound-sounding quote; and that, when you ask me about what I’d just said, I mention that they were the words of the guy I fall short of but strive to emulate; I’m far from perfect, but I try my best to be like that warm friend who genuinely cared about people: following his example whenever I can. “Wow,” you reply. “So, tell me more about this guy!”
“He did a lot of carpentry, and didn’t eat bacon.”
“So, you’ve taken up carpentry as a hobby?”
“Uh, no; my hobby is cooking with bacon.”
“Did he light a menorah at Hanukkah?”
“Every year! I don’t, though.”
“Are you a fan of sandals?”
“He was. I’m not.”
I honestly don’t get it. I mean, I get that all of that is trivia compared to the guy’s teachings, but: if I were all-in on Christ, to the point of calling myself a Christian, I figure I’d be keen on the trivia too, y’know?
We had them in the 70s, IIRC.
Maybe we were a progressive diocese.
Not every single last detail of everyday church practice and protocol is sent down carved in stone from Rome – quite a bit is left to the national bishops’ conferences or to the individual bishops to interpret the general rules. Similar in other denominations with a central organization.
Maybe, but historically speaking, Christianity didn’t get to be very popular in the Roman Empire until it was purged of most of its Jewish elements. Circumcision especially would have been a pretty hard sell, so I’m not surprised that they downplayed it.
It’s even literally canonical: according to the Book of Acts (Chapter 15) that was taken care of in the Apostle’s own lifetime.
But I fear we’re well into hijack territory here.
Best to nip it in the bud.
That was a big deal for maybe a decade in the history of the Church, before the Church (then still being run by the original Apostles) decided that it wasn’t necessary.