I checked this thread to see if any Freepers remembered or brought up Ted Turner’s comment from years ago... On an Ash Wednesday several years ago, Ted Turner was at CNN headquarters and saw some employees with ash on their foreheads and he asked “What is this?! Do we have a bunch of Jesus-freaks working here?!!!” or something like that.
Welcome to the world of selective politically correct language.
I believe Ted also made a snide public comment that he thought the employees were survivors of the Seattle earthquake (there was a large earthquake deep underground in the Seattle area shortly before Ash Wednesday that year). Only moderate damage because the quake was so deep.
Don’t remember that remark but just that Turner is an atheist. One Ash Wednesday a group of us went to a Subway’s sandwich shop after mass. The clerk got upset seeing so many of us with ashes on our foreheads. She wanted to know what had happened to us. We explained the Catholic tradition of the ashes and the purpose for them, at which point she haughtily informed us she didn’t think much of Catholics as she thought this was abuse and was going to wash off the ashes! While eating our sandwiches, decided to speak to the store manager about this insensitive behaviour. Don’t know what happened after we left but felt good that we had did the best we could.