A Few Words About Religion
I was not raised Catholic. My family attended and had been lectured to in Presbytarian churches and for a short time, Unitarian, but I converted while in college once I started going to the old St. George's with my dorm roommate. It fit me like a glove and I felt at home there despite my ignorance of the exotic rituals and prayers everyone else knew by heart. When I say that I am Catholic I say it with the caveat that I am an American Catholic , which is to say I do not agree with everything that comes out of the Vatican. Sorry. I have no issue with homosexuality. Love is love, and people are lucky and blessed to find it wherever they find it. I believe that priests should be allowed to marry and that women should be accorded more prominent positions within the church structure. There's more, but let's just leave it that I realize the Pope is not doing a little jig everytime I open my mouth and declare I'm Catholic. For the totter to that teeter though, I've been t...
Putting aside all the horrid things happening around the world, thank you for this image. I like that the image above them is of violence; it relays hope that we will remember, will get better, will ...wear suits...and play cards?
ReplyDeleteI don't know what this means, but the picture makes me happy, and since Mrs Shambles put the kabash on the framed "A Friend in Need" dogs playing poker picture I had, it makes me nostalgic.
Thank you.