How did you manage to get baptised twice? Be that as it may, the degraded opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games are just the latest symptom of the deliberate subversion / sabotage of Western Civilisation and Christianity that’s been underway for well over 100 years now... Oh, and by the way? That Grade 2 spelling bee you quoted? Strong…
How did you manage to get baptised twice? Be that as it may, the degraded opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games are just the latest symptom of the deliberate subversion / sabotage of Western Civilisation and Christianity that’s been underway for well over 100 years now... Oh, and by the way? That Grade 2 spelling bee you quoted? Strongly recommend you get a copy of John Taylor Gatto’s “The Underground History of American Education” (he talks about that subversion/sabotage A LOT)... wore my copy out, got to track down a new one, they’re getting scarce, but I digress.. I quote from same:
“In 1882, fifth graders read these authors in their Appleton School Reader: William Shakespeare, Henry Thoreau, George Washington, Sir Walter Scott, Mark Twain, Benjamin Franklin, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Bunyan, Daniel Webster, Samuel Johnson, Lewis Carroll, Thomas Jefferson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and others like them. In 1995, a student teacher of fifth graders in Minneapolis wrote to the local newspaper: ‘I was told children are not to be expected to spell the following words correctly: back, big, call, came, can, day, did, dog, down, get, good, have, he, home, if, in, is, it, like, little, man, morning, mother, my, night, off, out, over, people, play, ran, said, saw, she, some, soon, their, them, there, time, two, too, up, us, very, water, we, went, where, when, will, would, etc. Is this nuts?’ ”
I was born premature and needed emergency surgery, and my very Catholic mother insisted I be baptized first, lest I perish with that pesky original sin. ("Hang on, doc, while we super quickly administer this sacrament!") When I survived, she wanted to have the full ceremony/photo op, hence baptism #2. Bless her heart.
And yes, the dumbing down is egregious. As a journalist in the early 1990s, I was patently told to write for "an eighth grade education," and yes, I was writing for adults.
Twice baptized is common in another way. Born into a Catholic family and baptized as a baby. Then become a Protestant, or interdenominational, or non-denominational, (as so many have,) and believe baptism is after one consciously makes the decision for themselves to choose God and follow Him. Then the baptism is a proclamational ceremony celebrating that, like a wedding publicly proclaims and celebrates the choice made for a partner. So…two baptisms!
Well.. I suppose I got married to Wife #2 twice... First, a quickie Civil Service ceremony in her church's multipurpose room to make them happy.. Second, at St. Luke's Anglican to make both of us and God happy... 😇
How did you manage to get baptised twice? Be that as it may, the degraded opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games are just the latest symptom of the deliberate subversion / sabotage of Western Civilisation and Christianity that’s been underway for well over 100 years now... Oh, and by the way? That Grade 2 spelling bee you quoted? Strongly recommend you get a copy of John Taylor Gatto’s “The Underground History of American Education” (he talks about that subversion/sabotage A LOT)... wore my copy out, got to track down a new one, they’re getting scarce, but I digress.. I quote from same:
“In 1882, fifth graders read these authors in their Appleton School Reader: William Shakespeare, Henry Thoreau, George Washington, Sir Walter Scott, Mark Twain, Benjamin Franklin, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Bunyan, Daniel Webster, Samuel Johnson, Lewis Carroll, Thomas Jefferson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and others like them. In 1995, a student teacher of fifth graders in Minneapolis wrote to the local newspaper: ‘I was told children are not to be expected to spell the following words correctly: back, big, call, came, can, day, did, dog, down, get, good, have, he, home, if, in, is, it, like, little, man, morning, mother, my, night, off, out, over, people, play, ran, said, saw, she, some, soon, their, them, there, time, two, too, up, us, very, water, we, went, where, when, will, would, etc. Is this nuts?’ ”
I was born premature and needed emergency surgery, and my very Catholic mother insisted I be baptized first, lest I perish with that pesky original sin. ("Hang on, doc, while we super quickly administer this sacrament!") When I survived, she wanted to have the full ceremony/photo op, hence baptism #2. Bless her heart.
And yes, the dumbing down is egregious. As a journalist in the early 1990s, I was patently told to write for "an eighth grade education," and yes, I was writing for adults.
Twice baptized is common in another way. Born into a Catholic family and baptized as a baby. Then become a Protestant, or interdenominational, or non-denominational, (as so many have,) and believe baptism is after one consciously makes the decision for themselves to choose God and follow Him. Then the baptism is a proclamational ceremony celebrating that, like a wedding publicly proclaims and celebrates the choice made for a partner. So…two baptisms!
Well.. I suppose I got married to Wife #2 twice... First, a quickie Civil Service ceremony in her church's multipurpose room to make them happy.. Second, at St. Luke's Anglican to make both of us and God happy... 😇
Baptized twice. Once as a baby, and then as an adult