Posted on 06/22/2013 3:36:12 AM PDT by Kaslin
In Tulsa, we had priests from Nigeria, Tanzania, India, and Sri Lanka. They spoke English I could understand. The Church has always been international.
If you have a difficulty with a foreign-born priest, Bill, what are you doing to promote vocations to the priesthood from your parish/diocese?
There’s a militant liberal woman in my car club. If anybody calls it “the Christmas” party she gets upset and lectures us that it’s “the holiday” party. Virtually everybody else calls it the Christmas party unless she’s around. It simply isn’t worth the political correctness lecture. (As far as I can see nobody likes this woman but there really isn’t any way to exclude her.)
At the two huge defense companies I’ve worked at in the last three years Merry Christmas was actually forbidden as “potentially offensive.” Anybody who is going to say it looked around to ensure nobody overheard. I know it sounds ridiculous. But I was lectured by the senior VP regarding a conversation the HR lady had overheard in the cafeteria on concealed carry. Apparently, the HR lady thought it was “potentially offensive.” This company had one of the most socially sterile environments I’ve ever experienced. It reminded me of something written by a German who had been in the Hitler Youth. “Every conversation was the same, ‘my, what a wonderful time we’re having here at camp.’ We were terrified of saying something that would get us in trouble.”
Ugh, I hate this nonsense. Especially coming from folks who should know better.
If “giving offense” is the HR gold standard then the majority being silenced needs to band together quietly and agree to be quite vocally offended, simultaneously. The good of the many and all that, lol.
And yes, I do realize that “offense” is a loaded word running down a one-way street, always away from the core pariah group of white, heterosexual Christian males as well as anyone or anything remotely associated with or sympathetic to that group.
It just lays the matter bare, regarding “offense.”
He could at least check Wikipedia for the statistics. Catholic identification is NOT in decline, although those with time on their hands can spend it arguing over who is “really” Catholic. Churches are half-empty in places suffering population loss (Democrat places) and in places with long-tenured rotten Bishops (usually the same). In places where people live, churches are huge and packed to the rafters.
That reminds me, a couple of weeks ago when we were in Myrtle Beach, we went to Mass at 6:00 p.m. on Saturday with all 10 of our children. As we herded them all into a pew, carefully breaking up feuding pairs, the lady of a 60-ish couple behind us said, “Oh, look ... children! We hardly ever see children!”
Your Post is good for describing my attitude.
If she got on me about “Merry Christmas” I would go out of my way to mention the “Merry Christmas” party to her every chance I got. I would ride her on it so hard she would leave, or shut up.
“If “giving offense” is the HR gold standard then the majority being silenced needs to band together quietly and agree to be quite vocally offended, simultaneously. The good of the many and all that, lol.”
The decision on what thought control to impose is taking place at a remote headquarters. They create a policy, codify it and implement it. The HR at your local facility follows policy. There really is no way to fight these policies. If an employee complains then that employee may find himself in the worst jobs, with the worst hours until he quits. It’s a huge bureaucratic tyranny. The average worker is there because they need the job. The company can pretty much impose anything they want as jobs are hard to come by. All little drones simply comply as the alternative is not being employed.
Bill O gets something right this time. Brilliantly so. Our nation is becoming more secular, selfish and supine by the day.
Bill gets the big picture right on God and man. But why does he refuse to defend traditional marriage?
Merry Christmas! * grins!
Ah, so now they have to pass laws telling us what we are allowed to say, not what we cannot.
“If she got on me about “Merry Christmas” I would go out of my way to mention the “Merry Christmas” party to her every chance I got. I would ride her on it so hard she would leave, or shut up.”
That would make club meetings rather like attending a family function where the family is having a family argument. Very unpleasant. Believe me, this woman would get irate and, quite simply, the rest of the members would leave the club. We decided it wasn’t worth the potential impact so everybody lives with it. You have to pick your battles and we agreed this one wasn’t worth it. So, a little bit of tradition dies, I know. We’re all the poorer for it.
Frankly, I grew up in a family that fought 24/7. I hated every minute of it. I simply can’t engage at her level as I have to watch my blood pressure.
That’s a good picture of George Beverly Shea, who won a Lifetime Grammy Award; died 4-16-2013 at 104 yrs. However Billy Graham is mentioned in the O’Reilly article.
You see you take her too seriously.
I would consider it great fun to harass her.
“You see you take her too seriously. I would consider it great fun to harass her.”
Yes, but others would not feel the same and it would drive away members. BTW, she has a PhD in psychology and a huge number of consulting contracts with the state. Her specialty is creating politically correct policies. (That’s not the title, but that is certainly what she’s paid handsomely to do.) She is one of the most bitter, unhappy people I have ever spoken to. It’s all hidden behind an incredible smile which never changes, so it’s an expression she’s cultivated. It does not extend to her eyes, which I find creepy. She feels that anybody who does not have a PhD is a lower life form.
Fortunately, with Obama in office, she has been too busy for the last two years to attend many meetings. (She appears to be working on federal money grants.)
Have an honest discussion with the wart, and tell her that behind her back, everyone calls it a Christmas party; that no one likes her; and she is painfully unaware of even the weather outside. Don’t surround yourself with toxic people. Someday you will wonder why you did.
There’s a militant liberal woman in my car club. If anybody calls it “the Christmas” party she gets upset and lectures us that it’s “the holiday” party.”
You can win the war without saying a word:
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HMMMmmm...
I thought we already had one:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Oooops; my bad. It says CONGRESS.
Truly, the more I come to know God, the less religious I become. In fact, “religion” today is completely unimportant to me. God, however, influences every area of my life. Well, those areas that I (a sinner) allow him to rule.
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