tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29408129.post6454606274645776740..comments2023-08-16T14:33:35.249+03:00Comments on Азовская русалка: All Look Same?Lesliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13861740265127758977noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29408129.post-81840776160379371102008-04-02T17:59:00.000+04:002008-04-02T17:59:00.000+04:00This reminds me of a quote from the Simpsons (but ...This reminds me of a quote from the Simpsons (but then, everything reminds me of a quote from the Simpons or Seinfeld). I think it humorously reiterates the point that people have trouble thinkig about multiple religions in detail. Here it is, from Homer the Heretic, courtesy wikiquote:<BR/><BR/> Rev. Lovejoy: [God] was working in the hearts of your friends and neighbors when they came to your aid. Be they Christian [points to Ned], Jew [points to Krusty], or [points to Apu] ...miscellaneous.<BR/> Apu: Hindu! There are 700 million of us.<BR/> Rev. Lovejoy: Aw, that's super!<BR/><BR/>-DanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29408129.post-8590143589290484812008-03-29T20:22:00.000+03:002008-03-29T20:22:00.000+03:00This awakened the memory for me of childhood in my...This awakened the memory for me of childhood in my hometown, which was predominantly Christian and had an unusually high percentage of Catholics (at least for Ohio; I think because our part of northern Ohio was settled by lots of Bavarian Catholics, but I could be totally wrong on that). I remember having discussions on the school bus where we'd ask each other if our families were "Catholic or Christian." Yeah... we didn't have the terminology quite right, which is amusing in retrospect. I guess the idea of grouping into relevant binary terms (for us, Catholic/Protestant; for your school, Christian/Jewish; for Russians, Orthodox/non-Orthodox Christian) and obscuring or misunderstanding the features of the "other" group and its subcategories is the same everywhere.Lesliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13861740265127758977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29408129.post-79223488979158037452008-03-28T22:49:00.000+03:002008-03-28T22:49:00.000+03:00I guess I'll answer this from my non-Christian per...I guess I'll answer this from my non-Christian perspective. To be honest, growing up, I couldn't tell the difference between Protestant and Catholic either. At my school, you were either "Christian" or "Jewish". <BR/><BR/>Most of the Christian kids could tell you what denomination they were, but couldn't tell you why that was different from any other sect, so they were mentally clumped together for me. I don't think I knew the distinction for Catholicism until probably high school. <BR/><BR/>I guess I can sympathize w/the Babushki a bit...<BR/><BR/> -LAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03946024799418620440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29408129.post-26099172125608359062008-03-28T18:04:00.000+03:002008-03-28T18:04:00.000+03:00That's really interesting! In fact, it seems to me...That's really interesting! In fact, it seems to me that you could easily turn that into a short article that we'd like to publish in our new journal of religious life and theology. You should let me know if you're interested; we take anything from academic papers to shorter, more informal personal pieces. (Apparently, we recently got a three paragraph submission discussing God=water, as in liquid water and not a metaphor, though we may not publish that...) <BR/>I'd be happy to send you more information or a copy of the first issue.Katiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04315692796939968709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29408129.post-34584396235264374772008-03-27T17:14:00.000+03:002008-03-27T17:14:00.000+03:00Hey cathlic girl ;-)OK, here's my theory: the whol...Hey cathlic girl ;-)<BR/>OK, here's my theory: the whole world (not, but you know) was catholic until the schism. After that, there were two streams, catholic and orthodox. I guess to the orthodox, it didn't really matter what happened on the other side of the line anymore... They separated, so who cared? Besides, don't ask most protestants or catholics about the different orthodox streams. Mostly they don't get further than Russian and Greek... Coptic? Serbian?Celinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11996138203929335672noreply@blogger.com