(November 15, 2021 at 1:48 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: Grandma's biggest concern was finding hats to wear to church...boy, did she have a collection of fancy hats - think royal family fancy.
Is it because women must cover their heads in the church?
I remember 11 years ago, Roger Ebert wrote about his aunt and mom going to church and covering their heads
Quote:"Mary, give me one of your Kleenexes," my mother told my aunt one morning long ago when we were entering Holy Cross Church. She held a bobby pin in her lips, reached up to part her hair, and fixed the Kleenex on top of her head. My Aunt Mary already had her handkerchief in place.
"Why do you have to do that?" I asked.
"Because we are going into the house of the Lord," my mother explained, "and we have to spare him from the sight of us."
"But why?"
"It's because we're women, honey," Aunt Mary said.
And he ended the blogpost with the question:
"Is it good for the world to consider women as an inferior form, as all religions do?"
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
