Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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And what's wrong with tradition? G.K. Chesterton, no Harvard Protestant but an English Catholic, once wrote that "tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes: our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those...
Visitors to the state may feel they have stepped into a foreign country, a land of Mardi Gras, Cajun cooking and the Catahoula hound. The flags of six - countries have flown over this state, where the Napoleonic Code still prevails and French is often the first language in the southwestern...
...minister--or a rabbi or a priest--to deliver a prayer at the inauguration. A speech would have been acceptable, but this was not a speech: Gomes was called on to represent religion, which (whether the contents of the prayer were specifically Protestant or not) means that "religion" and "Protestantism" are still officially equated...
The Columbus honored in Chicago bore little resemblance to the medieval wizard of Spain's inquisitorial empire. That ancient mariner was now conceived to be a champion of Anglo-Saxon (Protestant) values. The Spaniards had taken guns and the catechism abroad. America, said Mark Twain, took guns and the King...
Roman Catholics have caught the bug too (as in so many other areas, liberal American Catholics find themselves playing catch-up with their Protestant soul mates). Their arguments over sex are complicated by the fact that the Vatican, the ultimate source of authority in their church, is not known for...