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I'll hand it to the Brit royals, they DO tend to get
into the actual SHIT. Tradition. Even QE2 got her
hands filthy in the mil motor pool, got bombed, was
trained to use a sub-machinegun. Too bad other Euro
royals rarely follow suit, it'd make them far more
relevant, worthy of their lineage.
On 2025-08-28, c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:
I'll hand it to the Brit royals, they DO tend to get
into the actual SHIT. Tradition. Even QE2 got her
hands filthy in the mil motor pool, got bombed, was
trained to use a sub-machinegun. Too bad other Euro
royals rarely follow suit, it'd make them far more
relevant, worthy of their lineage.
King Frederik of Denmark is respected for his military service, as well
as his political science education. Queen Mary is the daughter of an Australian professor; she studied commerce and law at the University of Tasmania, and worked in marketing for Microsoft after Uni. She also
serves in the military (Home Guard ... our version of the "standing reserves".
On 29/08/2025 12:39 pm, Lars Poulsen wrote:
On 2025-08-28, c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:"Home Guard"?? Aren't they all really, really old Men?? ;-P
I'll hand it to the Brit royals, they DO tend to get into the
actual SHIT. Tradition. Even QE2 got her hands filthy in the mil
motor pool, got bombed, was trained to use a sub-machinegun. Too
bad other Euro royals rarely follow suit, it'd make them far more
relevant, worthy of their lineage.
King Frederik of Denmark is respected for his military service, as well
as his political science education. Queen Mary is the daughter of an
Australian professor; she studied commerce and law at the University of
Tasmania, and worked in marketing for Microsoft after Uni. She also
serves in the military (Home Guard ... our version of the "standing
reserves".
The Lutherans or the Catholics? There is some similarity. For the
Lutherans the doctrinal disagreement starts with the 'Book of Concord'.
For the Missouri Synod it's the word of god and a complete statement of
the doctrine. For the ELCA, there is wiggle room leading to:
The ECLA has LGBQ++ clergy, with the L implying they have female clergy of any orientation. In the Missouri Synod women may serve in administrative functions created by Man; they don't get to do those things created by
God. Homosexuality is inherently sinful, abnormal, and an abomination.
Pray for the critters if you must but don't get too close. You probably
can fill in the blanks on abortion, euthanasia, DEI, same sex marriage, inclusive language in the liturgy, etc. The ECLA tends to collect flaming liberals. There's another synod that I think is to the right of the
Missouri Synod but I forget its name.
Ah, yes. I was always confused as to who was who between the LCA and the ELCA, but the division is familiar to me as a Dane. The Danish Lutheran
state church has a fundamentalist wing ("The society for the Inner
Mission") and a liberal wing (The Grundtvig church). When Danes
immigrated to America, this brought both wings with them. The two kinds
can be seen in Bergman's "Fanny and ALexander". It begins in the
Grundtvig style sect, "the happy church". And in the second half, the children are adopted into the family of the fundamentalist relatives.
Here in the US, I have heard the two referred to as "the Happy
Lutherans" and "the Gloomy Lutherans".
On Sun, 31 Aug 2025 22:26:04 -0000 (UTC), Lars Poulsen wrote:
Ah, yes. I was always confused as to who was who between the LCA and the
ELCA, but the division is familiar to me as a Dane. The Danish Lutheran
state church has a fundamentalist wing ("The society for the Inner
Mission") and a liberal wing (The Grundtvig church). When Danes
immigrated to America, this brought both wings with them. The two kinds
can be seen in Bergman's "Fanny and ALexander". It begins in the
Grundtvig style sect, "the happy church". And in the second half, the
children are adopted into the family of the fundamentalist relatives.
The history is complicated. It took a while in the US to get the German, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and so forth Lutherans singing from the same hymnal.
Here in the US, I have heard the two referred to as "the Happy
Lutherans" and "the Gloomy Lutherans".
The other flavor I was exposed to as a kid was Dutch Reformed, talk about gloomy. My mother didn't take it seriously at least. In her later years
she said she'd never voiced her views in case she got religion as she got older but figured at that point in her life it wasn't going to happen.
There were moments. My father and uncle would get together every Saturday
and lay in a 12 quart case of beer. Both the heavy case and the bottles themselves required a deposit but they didn't always get returned
promptly. On one of her clean up campaigns she loaded several cases on my
red Radio Flyer wagon and we headed down the street to a beverage store
where they redeemed them. When we got there her pastor pulled in,
presumably to lay in a stock of ginger ale. What wagon full of beer
bottles? I don't see any beer bottles. He was young and had a pretty good idea not all of his flock were on the straight and narrow.
The downside was his church raised money with bake sales. The Catholic
church raised money with Las Vegas Nights, bingo, and an annual horse
show.
Like the ELCA, There is a Reformed Church in America but the Dutch
Reformed broke away the Canons of Dort. When my mother died the minister
had been imported from the Netherlands since the seminaries weren't
turning out ministers with the right degree of purity.
Ob Linux: Protestants are sort of like Linux with multiple flavors that
are hard to tell apart. Catholics are like Windows. Despite changes over
the years a Windows computer is a Windows computer.