[Ansteorra] Fw: "We know you're wishin' that we'd go awaaaayyy..."

[HerrDetlef]

ROFL!

I once told a group of seventh graders in my charge that I knew what nuns
are for, and that if they didn't shape up, I was going to tell their parents
:-)

Sometime around 1989, not very long after the Berlin Wall came down, I was
flipping through channels and ran across Pat Robertson and the 700 Club.
Normally I just keep clicking, but something caught my attention.

They had some footage of a woman who played SCA in the West Kingdom, and she
was saying that she was a high priestess of some goddess.  Nothing really
alarming there.

But Pat came on and said that, now that the Soviet Union had collapsed (this
was before 1991, mind you, and Mikhail Gorbachev was still very much in
power in the USSR), the people there had no ideology to replace Communism,
and that his viewers needed to contribute funds to send Bibles to Russia,
because Satan was telling the SCA to send Hindu missionaries from India to
the Soviet Union, and they needed to fill in that gap with their brand of
Christianity soon before the devil worshippers in the SCA filled it in with
their idolatry.

Never mind that Christianity first arrived in Russia in the seventh century,
and the strength of the Russian Orthodox Church suggests that, even with
Communist advocacy of atheism, Christianity was still very much alive and
well in the Soviet Union.

Of course, Orthodoxy isn't REAL Christianity, is it? ;-)  I guess there was
no Christianity there because Robertson and his gang weren't getting any
money from over there.

P&B,
DT+LF


On 7/17/08, Sher M <runa.herd at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>
> I use to get threatened with being sent to a Catholic School in San Antonio
> that was run by nuns.  The same one my mother attended.
> I think I'd rather take on a terrorist than one of those nuns.
>
> For those of you old enough to remember the moonies... I was the manager of
> a bowling alley in Huntsville, Texas.  One kept coming in and trying to get
> me to buy some candy and other junk.  Actually told me to spend my lunch
> money on his caca.  After telling him for the 3rd time to leave I was
> totally fed up.  He came back in.  Told him that my "church" wouldn't allow
> me to purchase from him.  Then he asked "What church?"  Then only thing I
> could think of (it was close to Halloween)... Satanic Church.  He left.
>
> Runa of The Thundering Herd
> http://runa-herd.livejournal.com
> www.bedlambazaar.com
> http://thethunderingherd.net
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Maria Buchanan" <
>> scarlettmb at sbcglobal.net>
>> To: "Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 10:25 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] "We know you're wishin' that we'd go
>> awaaaayyy..."
>>
>>
>> Actually the Jesuits are probably the most tolerant of
>>> all the Catholic brothers.
>>>
>>>> I mean, it *is* run by Jesuits, after all.  And if
>>>> you're talking about
>>>> enforcing doctrine and _propaganda fide_, the
>>>> Reverend and his tent revival
>>>> ain't got nothin' on the smiling, rosy-faced
>>>> Monsignors.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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