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...
This is not the Jesus who was struck by lightning and burned yesterday?
ReplyDeleteYes!!! It's Touchdown Jesus!!
ReplyDeleteI laughed and laughed over that. Does that make me a heathen?
Yes, Ms. Rider, one and the same. Couldn't take the heat!
ReplyDeleteBut did you hear? Like the Terminator, BBJ will be back, better than before. Wait...was that the Six Million Dollar Man? "We can rebuild him, bigger, better, stronger, faster..."? Never mind. I love, though, how the pastor refused to say that the lightning strike was was an Act of God! Hey, if lightning isn't an Act of God, then WTF is?
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