Madonna with Child
Hester Prynne?
Or, The Virgin Mary?
Dear Fred,
Thanks for your email.
Yes, we live in a more serious country than Italy.
But our "gravity" is secondary to the dolefulness of the nation's Puritan Fundamentalists.
Italian Catholics, on the other hand, invented indulgence.
Thanks be to God!
Three cheers for Johann Tetzel! Even more for Mardi Gras!
Too many gringos cling to their God-damned guns and Bad Religion.
Ruled by the false gods of Violence and Vengeance, these shrunken minds and shrunken souls are sadistically determined to suture "Scarlet Letters" upon the tender breasts of The Damned.
By my lights, Americans most in danger of "damnation" are those whose core contempt for Reason and Proportion twists evident realities into manifest monstrosities.
Here is how the diabolical mechanism operates. http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/02/harris-poll-wingnuts-and-president-obama.html
Contemporary "Christian" "conservatism" flies directly in the face of Prudence.
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/03/capitalism-most-powerful-engine-of.html
Pax on both houses,
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/03/capitalism-most-powerful-engine-of.html
Pax on both houses,
Alan
PS Ironically, one would be hard-pressed to locate a single American Christian -- even among legions of fundamentalists -- who would not fault Hester Prynne's treatment. Remarkably, "Christian" judgmentalists are always proven wrong.
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On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 11:03 AM, Fred Owens <froghospital911@gmail.com> wrote:
I would much rather go to Italy than read this story --- I wish I was in Rome right now -- I bet the weather is very good, and the food and wine -- it would be a great pleasure.
Let's face it, we live in a more serious country.On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 6:28 AM, Alan Archibald <alanarchibaldo@gmail.com> wrote:March 5, 2013MAYBE ITALY’S POLITICIANS AREN’T CRAZIER THAN OURS
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