"an elderly, somewhat eccentric evangelical lady with a good heart but sometimes defective reasoning ... "?
I couldn't resist ....
Posted on 03/11/2010 11:00:57 AM PST by Shellybenoit
I have spent much time during the past few evenings helping my son study for his History test later in the week. As I worked with him through his studies, I found that his class is presenting a new version of History, a version that never occurred. And while you can make a case for different interpretations of events that happened centuries ago, his text book and curriculum distorts events that I saw with my own eyes.
The Book in question is published by McDougal Littell and is called World History Patterns of Interaction. The test covers much of the period from the end of WWII through the 1980's. It sets up the Cold War period with the mistaken explanation that both sides were aggressors. On page 983 it says "both sides believed that they needed to stop the other side from extending its power, rather than a what it was, a battle between the Soviet side wanting to expand its communist philosophy across the world and the west trying to prevent the takeover."
(Excerpt) Read more at yidwithlid.blogspot.com ...
I like and am intrigue by your tagline (additional translation appreciated). Based on what I surmise from it, I think you would like to know about this - (my daughter has been involved in the Pure Fashion Model Training Program since last Fall and the Pure Fashion Show is next month!) ...
Pure Fashion: Promoting the virtues of modesty and purity and fostering the dignity of the female 'genius' that God created (clothing that is pretty but not provocative, trendy but still tasteful).
My screen name dates back a long long time (in fact to long before I was Catholic). I was lurking here and posting on a couple of other (since defunct) boards with that name as early as the Clinton impeachment.
Its origin was with a regular letter-writer in the old Baltimore Sun. The author took a tongue-in-cheek position as an elderly, somewhat eccentric evangelical lady with a good heart but sometimes defective reasoning. (He was actually the Danish Consul in Baltimore.) But there was usually a good idea at the bottom of it, under all the fun.
To the Editor of the Evening Sun: Sir—Some time ago I wrote you to reccommend the holding of prayer meetings on streetcars while our young folk were coming and going to work morning and evening. I felt that so much good could be accomplished through these prayer meetings and that it would help our young folk to start their workday and to finish it in a beautiful frame of mind. Unfortunately nothing came out of my loving recommendation at the time, but I see now that masses are going to be done on the trains that are carrying people to the Eucharistic meeting in Chicago, Ill. Now, I do not hold with Popishness, but aside from that I think this a most beautiful idea, and if these people can have masses done on the trains, why cannot we here in Baltimore, a Protestant city, have prayer meetings or sermons on the streetcars for the good of our working boys and girls? …AN AMERICAN MOTHER
Read all about it here. (Never mind that "Baltimore, a Protestant city" was thrown in just to provoke a response from everybody who grew up on the Baltimore Catechism or went to Mass at the Basilica)
"an elderly, somewhat eccentric evangelical lady with a good heart but sometimes defective reasoning ... "?
I couldn't resist ....
They're a definite type, the equivalent of the Italian "pia donna". They are mostly good-hearted but can be scary.
The tagline (sorry I read too quickly - that's the danger of iPhones!) is the Tomas Torquemada Gentlemen's Club . . . which makes an appearance from time to time on FR. The Ladies' Auxiliary required hats and gloves last time I checked. I was a recess appointment to handle any questions that might arise pertaining to dogs, horses, or hunting (whether birds, deer, or the fox) hence the title.
I agree. The Roman Catholic Church is a major target of the media, because she teaches against much of what the media supports.
” The Roman Catholic Church is a major target of the media”
And simply because she is Satan’s strongest opponent on Earth.
Exactly!
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