I also think it could be read as part of the ongoing effort to discredit liberation theology.
Do I wish I was somebody else right now. Somebody not... married, not madly in love with a beautiful woman who can kill me with her pinkie!
Wash ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Ginger - Nov 16, 2011 9:51:27 am PST #7081 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
JZ - Nov 16, 2011 9:56:51 am PST #7082 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
ITA, Ginger.
§ ita § - Nov 16, 2011 9:57:29 am PST #7083 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm going back to Suri's Burn Book. It's the only thing that makes sense in the world right now.
Seriously, I'm stuck there. I'm on an important conference call, but Suri's got my attention.
Consuela - Nov 16, 2011 9:58:38 am PST #7084 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I also think it could be read as part of the ongoing effort to discredit liberation theology.
Oh, yeah. t sigh
Jesse - Nov 16, 2011 10:03:14 am PST #7085 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I will just point out that my great-uncle was sexually assaulted by a priest at a boarding school in the 1930s, and his parents took him out of school, because they knew nothing would happen to the priest. Per my grandmother.
brenda m - Nov 16, 2011 10:05:02 am PST #7086 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Per my grandmother.
HIPPIE!
Allyson - Nov 16, 2011 10:09:58 am PST #7087 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I don't know what liberation theology is.
I'm so woefully ignorant of the church, and most religious stuff in general.
Cass - Nov 16, 2011 10:11:51 am PST #7088 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
I'm going back to Suri's Burn Book. It's the only thing that makes sense in the world right now.
This. Well, this and the scrambled eggs that I just made for lunch using the very dregs of my fridge are really amazing.
I know some really amazing Catholics and it makes me sad that they or more like them are not in charge.
Amy - Nov 16, 2011 10:15:16 am PST #7089 of 30001
Because books.
the scrambled eggs that I just made for lunch
Come over? I'm eating cheese puffs because I feel crappy and therefore too lazy to make real food.
The traditions and rituals of the Catholic Church have always fascinated me. So much of it is so beautiful, and it was so mysterious to a white bread Presbyterian growing up. But the Catholic Church is so much more than just a church, and always has been. Which makes it hard to change, I guess, and a lot more powerful than it probably should be.
Ginger - Nov 16, 2011 10:22:39 am PST #7090 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Liberation theory was a movement, mostly in South America, that the church should be actively involved in human rights and alleviating poverty, even if that meant being involved in revolutionary movements. You know, kind of like that guy Jesus. (This is a very simplistic explanation.)