In a message dated 04/08/2000 8:02:52 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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> >Thankfully in western Europe god has been officially dead
> > for well over 100 years now, but even today large sectons of the great
> >uneducated Amerikkkan public are intellectually living in the dark
ageusbvs.
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No, our real problem is that we're so off the track that we never had a "dark
ages" on this continent. It makes for all kinds of anguish.
When my husband and I visited a friend in Vienna, he spent a whole month
enthusiastically hauling us around to see all kinds of wonderful cathedrals
and village churches, most of them very old. When he came to New York, his
first words were "I vant to see your churches." I couldn't believe he was
asking this! What churches? We don't have any charming medieval monasteries
or 12th century cathedrals. I finally took him to some 19th century
imitations, and you would have thought he was touring Chartres. He kept
saying, "byootiful, byootiful." I was so embarrassed. I guess it wouldn't
have been much of an improvement had he murmured, "don't you folks have
anything that's more authentic"?
pat
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