Ping!
An elderly priest who frequently substitutes at our parish was on duty last week just after being released from the hospital for pneumonia. He called it an imprisonment!
He complained passionately about the TV fare provided for his entertainment, commenting profusely about Honey Boo Boo, Say Yes to the Dress, and Bridezilla! He was scandalized about these bratty brides actually receiving the Eucharist! He went on to complain about the 24/7 Christmas shows, noting that NONE of them had anything to do with the birth of our Savior.
I thought he made some really good points. Think about it for a minute.
What I find amusing are the repeated Jewish-centric reading assignments my children get every year in school. It’s holocaust this and defamation that, and every one of them has references to the Torah and Passover in it. And, I have a very hard time imagining that where I live in the boonies of northwest Florida is somehow more concerned with Jews than anywhere else, which makes me think that this is going on everywhere. And, so I wonder, where are all the complaints about the religious stuff in these books, as well as all of the movie adaptations that are so popular to watch in classes after reading them? Where are the anti-Anne Frank protests? Where is the outrage over the Devil’s Arithmetic? Surely people are screaming bloody murder over dreidels and matzo, and yet I never seem to read about it.