To: GeronL
It's in reference to the Presbyterian Church's vote on new names for the persons of the Trinity...Mother, Child, Womb was one...the official formula for Baptism, IIRC, would remain Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. But in other prayers, there is a list of names that may be used to substitute for the "paternalistic traditional formulation".
The blogosphere made much mirth over it and a lot of blogs joked about the "rock, paper, scissors" thing before Rod Dreher. He's got the name recognition so got the "credit" so to speak.
6 posted on
08/15/2006 6:03:49 PM PDT by
Carolina
To: Carolina
Mother, Child, Womb Someone should just tell these weirdos they are NOT christians.
7 posted on
08/15/2006 6:07:45 PM PDT by
GeronL
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To: Carolina; GeronL
Doug Marlette (my favorite cartoonist since Jeff MacNelly's untimely death) even got into the act with a cartoon of a Presbyterian "Name That Trinity" panel discussion, with the goofy guy on the far right saying "Rock, Scissors, Paper".
In one of his usual marginal asides, somebody's leaning over to whisper to a minister, "I've got bad news. The EPISCOPALIANS are praying for us."
No sign of Marlette's Baptist Preacher regular, though.
12 posted on
08/15/2006 7:06:31 PM PDT by
AnAmericanMother
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