[lit-ideas] Re: The Perils Of Teaching Women How To Read
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On 26-Dec-09, Mike Geary wrote:
I've dreaded this day for years, knowing it was bound to come
eventually. Teaching women to read led to giving them the vote and
the next thing you know they're attacking the Pope. Physically!!! A
Papal smack down right there in the center of Christendom. ...[W]e
have something like 50,000 years of misogynism to account for.
Seeing how easy it is to take down the head man, women are sure to
start knocking all us males around. Take heed. ...
A fellow '(col)lapsed Catholic' writes:
For years I celebrated (particulary during 'Holy Week') the liturgical
exercise known as 'The Stations [or 'Way'] of the Cross' without ever
suspecting - until Mike's 'Boxing Day' message opened my eyes.
For non- Catholics (or those even further collapsed than I):
The Stations of the Cross are a series of 14 pictures or sculptures
distributed around a church in such a way that a priest accompanied by
accolytes (followed in spirit by the congregation) or individual can
proceed in prayer and meditation through fourteen 'stations' depicting
the following scenes:
1. Jesus is condemned to death
2. Jesus is given his cross
3. Jesus falls the first time
4. Jesus meets His Mother
5. Simon of Cyrene carries the cross
6. Veronica wipes the face of Jesus
7. Jesus falls the second time
8. Jesus meets the daughters of Jerusalem
9. Jesus falls the third time
10. Jesus is stripped of His garments
11. Crucifixion: Jesus is nailed to the cross
12. Jesus dies on the cross
13. Jesus' body is removed from the cross (Deposition or Lamentation)
14. Jesus is laid in the tomb and covered in incense.
Note particularly stations 3, 7 and 9. The arraignment of suspects
after close perusal of the relevant scriptural texts is left as an
exercise for the reader. (Most seem to have names starting with M, but
perhaps the V of station 6 is also implicated.)
The theological implications are staggering.
Chris Bruce,
wondering as ever at this time of year
at the persistance of that old dispensation,
with an alien people clutching their gods, in
Kiel, Germany
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