The interview meme - from Purple Mirie

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This meme says: comment if you want to be interviewed. (For obvious reasons, this post is closed to anonymous posters.)

1. What is it about history that fascinates you so?It is very hard for me to say. I really think that my mind is just made in a particular way. I find reading texts of history, including specialist history (social history,

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[purple_mirie]

I think that liberation theology is built on the confusion of secular and religious categories and the abuse of emotionally loaded words, beginning with "liberation" itself. It is rhetoric, not thought
I couldn't agree with you more. There was a time when I thought that the Church was for liberation theology, thanks to my Jesuit education. At the time I couldn't believe that the Church would stand behind some poorly disguised Communist movement. I find the notion that the Church's mission necessarily has both spiritual and political dimensions ridiculous. And, from my experience, I found that given its emphasis on experience and praxis before reflection, proponents usually interpret the Gospel in a way that would suit their cause, omitting aspects that they don't like.

[purple_mirie]

Oh, interview me? :)

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1) Tell me about your country and where you live.
2) How long have you been studying law, and do you see any specialization you might like to pursue?
3) Can you draw or paint?
4) Would you say you have a temper?
5) Why Purple Mirie?

[jennilee]

Hey, I haven't commented much on your LJ in awhile (but there is a post from two or three weeks ago that I have bookmarked and will comment on eventually), so let's get it on! ;)

Interview me?

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1) What Church exactly do you belong to? (I suspect, in spite of your descent, that it is not the Catholic Church.)
2) Have you been a believer all your life, or are you a convert?
3) How much place would you say that your faith has in your daily life?
4) Ditto intellectual and artistic life?
5) Do you believe in Hell?

[jennilee]

1. My Portuguese father's family is indeed Catholic. My Filipina's mother's family was Catholic as well, until they converted to Seventh-day Adventism. My mom was in my Lola's womb when this happened, so naturally she takes all the credit

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About "artistic life": to the best of my knowledge, you are at least musical. Music is an art. Also you write extensively. Literature, even in the form of diary-writing, is an art. That is what I meant. I also was interested in your attitude to such things as movies, novels, etc.