(TV) Eleven-fingered Boleyn!

["Emilie Hsu" <ehsu@mindspring.com>]

La Boleyn, she's from France!

 

I was raised Catholic.  I live in NYC, and am not quite a "rabid atheist."
If a gun were put to my head, I'd probably admit to Pascal's brand of
Jansenist faith. 

 

Like most people from France, I dislike talking about religion, considering
it a personal matter. 

The only thing that Protestants in the US seem to want to talk about is how
Christian they are -- and indeed, the particular American faith in Jesus
Christ (and strangely, to me, not in god) seems almost blasphemous to me at
first, but I slowly got used to it.

 

The Cloisters thingie is a really strange sight, if you're from Europe --
but it is indeed rather nice. 

 

 

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Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 19:48:54 -0400

From: "Scott Simpson" <SSimpson@nyc.rr.com>

Subject: (TV) This Catholic thing.  I don't get it.

 

Gee, I grew up in Northeast Texas.  And Protestants can at least deal with

calling themselves Christian.  And like every Catholic I know in NYC is a

rabid atheist.  Are there like a lot of Catholics?  And do they all have a

problem with it?  Is it just the denomination and that's what you do?  Oh,

that's right, Father Joe never chased me into the baptismal.

 

So is it just the pedophilia, or is there some really deep resentment with

being borne Catholic?

 

If I can't ask people I love in this format, then what's a WASP to do?

 

Sorry if you're offended with this missive.  Mea Culpa.

 

Scott, NYC  INRI

 

Please come visit us in New York City and tour the Cloisters, the Medieval

Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  It's about 16 blocks away from

where we live.  In the cool part of northern Manhattan.

 

And if you're English, thank God for Anne Boleyn.  Right?

 

And on topic, I know that Richard Lloyd lives in Inwood very close to the

Cloisters.
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