I am glad to have paid a very small part in the family mystery. Which app?
One of my uncles spelled his last name (my mother’s maiden name) with a one letter difference, but it was the army’s fault. They misspelled it, and it was his first “official” record which he didn’t bother to change.
GeneologyBank
In 14th century England, farmers could be surnamed In The Ditch, if they farmed a low lying area. If they lived in an area with potter’s clay, they could be surnamed Ate Children (pronounced ‘at Chilthern’).
Starting in 2022 and ending next year in 2025, four women each year are honored by being on the back of US quarter coins. Next year Dr. Vera Rubin will be one of them. She will be the first Jewish person on any US coins or currency.
https://www.usmint.gov/american-women-quarters-2025-rolls-and-bags-dr-vera-rubin-MASTER_AWQVR.html
Today I learned about the unusual baseball saga of a player named Ron Wright. Wright played professional baseball for 11 seasons from 1994 through 2004, all in the minor leagues. Except, that is, for one major-league game. On April 14, 2002, Wright started at DH for the Mariners. In his first at-bat, he struck out. In his second at-bat, he hit into a triple play. In his third at-bat, he hit into a double play. He was then removed for a pinch-hitter. Then he was sent back down to the minors and never played another major league game.
I learned a new concept today that I presume most dopers were already aware of. What do you call someone who practices multiple religions at the same time? A person who practices multiple religious beliefs at the same time is called a syncretist; the practice itself is known as syncretism which refers to the blending of different religious beliefs and practices into a new system. I’m 70 years old, fairly well read, and have never heard of this concept before.
I’m sure you meant black certified architect, or certified architect who was black.
Never saw the name before I think, if I did I didn’t know what it meant which is the same thing in the end. I know people that practice different religious rituals. I’m not sure if syncretism extends to people’s faith in multiple religions with disparate beliefs and I’m not sure if I’ve encountered anyone who say they do that. Certainly some religions have little enough overlap that belief conflicts don’t prevent it either.
And yet, you know, we all do it. Religions, even the oldest, don’t come into existence out of nothing. Christianity is a good example of a religion which formed at a time of great religious turmoil – Judaism, Roman and Greek pantheism, Zoroastrianism, and esoteric cults like Mithraism, all swirling in the same place. Christianity, although it began as a reform of Judaism, borrowed from all of these. It’s as syncretic as all get out.
Whether modern Christians (or other faiths which have the tenet that theirs is the One True Belief) care to examine the historical foundations of their religion doesn’t negate the facts.
People who consciously cherrypick what they like about different religions to form their personal beliefs are not, I think true syncretists. They are something else.
I read in another thread (South Asian) Indians in the US celebrating Christmas about someone of Indian decent who is living in the US and who practices both Christian and Hindu religious rituals. I admire someone who is so non-dogmatic.
HInduism is historically enormously flexible.
Is there a name for these kind of people?
This is what I’ve usually encountered. Agreed, wouldn’t make sense to call that syncretism
Eclectors?
“Cafeteria Syncretists”?
“Spiritual but not religious” ?
Yes, I assumed people would understand that “certified” modifies “architect” not “black.”
There’s a broad range in this category, ranging from people who believe we are all Beings Of Light (like my Pilates teacher) to people who attend a Christian church but try to ignore the Nicene Creed. I believe that if you really questioned folks closely you would find that even in the strictest of sects, what people privately believe is all over the map.