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Bhaskar.ing - thank you for the kind words
posted by
gomedome
on June 26, 2008 at 7:47 AM
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OTA. - even though he had his own religion he was being forced as we all
were, to be catholics.
Even his name was not his real name (I have forgotten what his native name was). As with all children entering this school, if they didn't have a recognizable good Christian name, they were renamed after one of the catholic patron saints. In his case St. Martin de Tours.
posted by
gomedome
on June 26, 2008 at 7:46 AM
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Gomedome, I was wondering.. was Martin catholic then?
~Peace, OTA
posted by
Blue_feathers
on June 26, 2008 at 6:38 AM
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I thoroughly enjoyed the read written in brilliant style interspersed with humor and wit - Sister Noguyforme and sister Neverhadaman heighten the sense with their confusion about sex and morality.
posted by
Bhaskar.ing
on June 26, 2008 at 2:21 AM
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Re: Re: The Nuns didn't approve?
ONE OF THE MOST DEBILITATING POLICIES
of all time.
talk to women in Central America -- having kids at 13 or so, having at rate of 1 a year-- a lot of infant deaths and the women old at 30 or so and dying before 50
a church policy that kills.
posted by
Xeno-x
on June 25, 2008 at 3:50 PM
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Re: The Nuns didn't approve?
This line says it all:
"Those nuns sound like they might have been a little confused about what God wants" . . . what God wanted according to them is for everyone in the world to listen to the Vatican. No birth control, as many kids as humanly possible to maintain church expansion but only one wife.
posted by
gomedome
on June 25, 2008 at 1:22 PM
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Xeno-x - my take on it at the time was that I didn't fully understand what
it was all about.
posted by
gomedome
on June 25, 2008 at 1:19 PM
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Dark_Moon - In hindsight and looking at the situation from a practical
perspective, what else could those people do?
When the flu pandemic swept through those isolated northern regions it wiped out entire first nations. Where many of the different peoples had historically inter-married, those who had come from a flu decimated village were treated as if they had the plague. It was simply the best solution.
posted by
gomedome
on June 25, 2008 at 1:18 PM
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The Nuns didn't approve?
Do they not read the Bible? Sounds to me like your friend's father was just doing what the Bible teaches. No where in the Bible does it say a man has to be with just one woman after all. If anything it teaches that the most impotent thing a man can do is have as man children as possible with as many women as possible. The Bible not only seems to defend polygamy, but it also out right says it fine for a guy to sleep around on his wife to have more kids.
Those nuns sound like they might have been a little confused about what God wants.
posted by
kooka_lives
on June 25, 2008 at 10:03 AM
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understandable
the kid had pride
the nuns had an agenda
posted by
Xeno-x
on June 25, 2008 at 8:26 AM
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I salute the Great Chief! May the Great Spirit smile upon him and grant him eternal youth, happiness, virility and happy hunting in the Spirit World! Moon 
(p.s. a pox on the nuns)
posted by
magic_moon
on June 25, 2008 at 8:03 AM
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