Moreover you've got someone trying to mediate between you and God
Mostly as an aside, this isn't the way most of the synagogue service works in traditional Judiaism. For most of the service (there are a few parts that are done differently), the person leading the service says the first two lines and last two lines of the prayer out loud, to sort of keep everyone vaguely on track, but mostly, each person prays on his or her own, just in the same room as a lot of other people doing the same thing. (This is something I don't like about some of the more modern congregations. They get a choir and a cantor to do more and more of the prayers, and it ends up with a kind of "be quiet and listen" vibe.)
It isn't how it is in Christian denominations that don't have officials in the office of priest, either. Much of Protestantism is very big on the priesthood of all believers.
the person leading the service says the first two lines and last two lines of the prayer out loud, to sort of keep everyone vaguely on track, but mostly, each person prays on his or her own, just in the same room as a lot of other people doing the same thing.
That sounds really, really cool. I think I'd like that.
I Camilla, take thee, Charles Arthur George Whatever, to be my lawfully wedded tampon.
Cindy, I had totally blocked that out of my mind.
Time to find the brain bleach.
I hope the man and his sanitary product will be very happy.
He wanted to be the sanitary product. That's the thing. I don't really care about the adulterous period span of their relationship. But if someone makes you want to be a tampon, um...Well, actually, I don't care about them at all. And hey, maybe Camilla will have some luck keeping Harry out of Nazi garb.
Yuck. I love learning stuff, honestly, but there are still many things I'd rather Not Know.
What always intrigued me about the whole Charles/Camilla thing is that we normally think of the husband cheating on the somewhat plain, middle-aged woman with the younger, glamorous woman. It's interesting to see that whole dynamic turned around.
and who was paul addressing?
Paul was addressing the specific early Christian communities to which he was writing. Like, Corinthians -- written to the early Christian community in Corinth. Ephesians -- to the community in Ephesus. And so forth. It would be, more or less, like him writing to St. Andrew's Episcopal church, or Holy Name Catholic church, etc., today.
