To: swilhelm73
a throwback to the nineteenth-century Anglo-American idea of "muscular Christianity."What's that supposed to mean? Today's Christians are all 98-lb weaklings?
12 posted on
12/07/2004 3:14:32 PM PST by
Future Snake Eater
("Stupid grandma leaver-outers!"--Tom Servo)
To: Future Snake Eater
Not so.
The epitome of "muscular Christianity" was Theodore Roosevelt. It was a turn of the century movement that tried to arrest the degeneration of the upper crust WASP male into a kind of Henry James ineffectual bystander more comfortable in Europe than America.
To: Future Snake Eater
What's that supposed to mean? Today's Christians are all 98-lb weaklings?
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Ummm... probably that too darned many of Today's Christians are 300 pound couch sitters !!! ;-))
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36 posted on
12/07/2004 4:44:23 PM PST by
GeekDejure
( LOL = Liberals Obey Lucifer !!!)
To: Future Snake Eater
The original story linked by the posting contains a hypertext link to an explanation of the term "Muscular Christianity".
Here is the link:
Muscular Christianity
37 posted on
12/07/2004 4:56:06 PM PST by
Clive
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