Somewhat belated, but I made it back home safely. We didn't get the house they were looking at, but there's still a lot of houses we can look for
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Technically, we're Irish Protestants, not Irish Catholics, so if we were going to dye the bread anything, we should dye it orange.
You can come to my church, but no one's going to blink twice at you, no matter how far you try to go to shock us. We'd probably ask you if you wanted to do some of the readings in front if you ever came back.
Okay, I've heard the orange on St Paddy's thing before, but just in passing and I thought it was some sort of joke I didn't get. What's the reason behind that? (I'm actually not trying to be a smartass here (for once XP). Just curious)
And the scary thing is, around here, I don't generally try to shock people. I just walk into the room and they start calling the Sightings hotline. XP BTW, I'm *really* sorry if my first comment came across as rude. I was trying to make fun of myself, not your church, and I apologize if there was a misfire.
Don't worry, I didn't take offense. I'm pretty used to your sense of humor, I took it as a rather funny joke. But really, if you did walk in, my church is full of rather fun and insane people, we'd take you as is and enjoy you thoroughly.
Orange on St. Patrick's comes from the tensions between Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants. The Catholics associate themselves with the green, protestants, especially some militant protestants, are called orangemen. And while Dad was born Irish Catholic, our family is protestant, Episcopalian to be specific. I really don't know enough about Irish history to explain all of it, but that's the basic idea.
Actually, Pika, somebody tried that a few years ago. A young lady showed up in our church about eight years ago, and sat down by herself. She had on her goth black clothes, spiked collar and belt, sleeveless black blouse to show off the tattoos, and piercings through ears, nose, lips and tongue. She got greeted nicely during the service, asked back for coffee after church, and invited back the next Sunday
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You can come to my church, but no one's going to blink twice at you, no matter how far you try to go to shock us. We'd probably ask you if you wanted to do some of the readings in front if you ever came back.
My church is full of the good kind of crazy.
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And the scary thing is, around here, I don't generally try to shock people. I just walk into the room and they start calling the Sightings hotline. XP BTW, I'm *really* sorry if my first comment came across as rude. I was trying to make fun of myself, not your church, and I apologize if there was a misfire.
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Orange on St. Patrick's comes from the tensions between Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants. The Catholics associate themselves with the green, protestants, especially some militant protestants, are called orangemen. And while Dad was born Irish Catholic, our family is protestant, Episcopalian to be specific. I really don't know enough about Irish history to explain all of it, but that's the basic idea.
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