If you'll forgive the tangent, the comment re Jesuits vs Dominicans recalls to mind an old joke:
At a convention of all religious orders, the discussion turned to which order God favored the most. The Jesuits and Dominicans got into a heated argument. Finally a little old Dominican nun interrupted: "Please, fathers, I will write a letter to God to ask him which order he favors." "Yes, Sister, you do that!" the priests replied in jest.
But what the priests didn't realize was that this nun was a very pious nun, and when she wrote to God she got an answer. Right away a letter did arrive, which read as follows:
Dear Sister: Thank you for inquiry. The truth is, all of my religious orders perform important work, and I do not favor one over the other. I regard them all as equals. Very truly yours, God, S.J."
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* an Orcadian poet who wrote a poem about my great-grandfather
Vociferous Vachel Lindsay.
But mortals suppose that gods are born,
wear their own clothes and have a voice and body. (B14)
Ethiopians say that their gods are snub-nosed and black;
Thracians that theirs are are blue-eyed and red-haired. (B16)
Zitsy Lisa Zaran
Names of churches.
One of my favourites,
Yearnful Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Is that a church?
In no way, shape, or form. But to keep Piglet's theme intact in a proper entry...
Jesuit Chapel(Quebec City)
Jaundiced Jesuit Chapel
Jesuits are never so jovial as when they're telling jokes about Dominicans. And vice versa.
I don't think that's a church, in the sense the word is being used here, ie. the name of specific buildings.
If you'll forgive the tangent, the comment re Jesuits vs Dominicans recalls to mind an old joke:
At a convention of all religious orders, the discussion turned to which order God favored the most. The Jesuits and Dominicans got into a heated argument. Finally a little old Dominican nun interrupted: "Please, fathers, I will write a letter to God to ask him which order he favors." "Yes, Sister, you do that!" the priests replied in jest.
But what the priests didn't realize was that this nun was a very pious nun, and when she wrote to God she got an answer. Right away a letter did arrive, which read as follows:
Dear Sister: Thank you for inquiry. The truth is, all of my religious orders perform important work, and I do not favor one over the other. I regard them all as equals. Very truly yours, God, S.J."