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To: marshmallow

I worked with Iraqi Christians. Beautiful families, and their small chapels are almost always iconoclastic. I made friends with a guy who operated a sewage truck for the FOB, but he emigrated with his family to Sweden in 2009 when his home was bombed.

He would smuggle in fifths of moonshine for $30 US, so us kids-with-guns could drink after hours, forget about the awful shit.

He told me how he had to pretend to be a cab driver as he left in the morning, by 4am, so that he wouldn’t be branded a traitor for working on the FOB.


4 posted on 05/02/2016 10:24:50 AM PDT by Syncopated
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To: Syncopated

I’m thinking you don’t mean “iconoclastic.” Iconoclasm calls for the destruction of icons (holy images), and the Syrians have been glorifying God with images in their churches since -— well, documentably, since the 230’s AD (I’m thinking of the ancient Church unearthed at Duro-Europos.)


7 posted on 05/02/2016 3:32:19 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("May the Lord bless you and keep you; may He turn to you His countenance and give you peace.")
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