Posted on 11/14/2003 6:47:13 PM PST by Chancellor Palpatine
In " PRIVATE DEMONS ". by Judy Oppenheimer, the only bio of Shirley Jackson, that I know of, it says that Shirley, once involved with her future husband, at Syracuse, joined the YCL, though she was actually apolitical , to impress Larry, whom she later married. She went to one or two meeting, never spoke, didn't listen much, and did absolutley NOTHING, zero, zilch, bupkiss, for/with the Communists then, or ever. Later on in life, neither she nor Larry were in any way involved with any Commie movment/organization. It was just a passing bit of rebellion. Her parents, FWIW, were VERY Conservative Republicans.
" THE LOTTERY " was NOT in any way, shape, manner, nor form about Commies. Shirely, herself, said it was about the small Vermont town she and Larry and the kids lived in and anti-Semitism , which was rife there and in most other places in this country back then.
I first read " THE LOTTERY ", when I was about 7 years old and became an avid fan and reader of her works from there on out. :-)
You consider yourself a Freeper. I consider myself a Freeper. But I don't consider our doctrines the same, or even similar. Just because people associate with each other at one level, doesn't mean that they are guilty of each other's sins.
Why so eager to denounce Christians in the limelight like Kennedy?
There's no need, whatsoever, for the spurious name calling, when one is " correct "; which you seldom, if ever are, dear. That you'd rather engage in juvenile pettiness, imbued with delusions of competence,is proof enough, that you've failed miserably in attempting a cogent debate.
Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaahaha
Catholicism, while today officially revising their position, by maintaining the decisions of the Council of Trent, have claimed classical Protestants are not Christians for 450 years.
Hello.
Do I know you?
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