sometines Christians (in this case Catholics) are strange . . .

[OneBlueSky]

though I stopped decades ago, my brother still attends our local Catholic church, and occasionally leaves their weekly newsletter lying around . . . I ran across this week's and, out of curiosity, found myself browsing through it . . . pretty standard fare, except for one "WTF item" . . .

seems they have a chapter of Teens Connected by Christ (TCC), which I guess is some kind of national program for Catholic youth . . . in their listing of summer events, I found the following . . .

"On August 7, it's back to the Mall for a remembrance of Patriarch Joshua and the battle of Jericho with Laser Tag" . . .

WTF???? . . . :shrug:

[eleny]

1. That's almost as embarrassing as folk masses

[mark11727]

3. OMG, I remember folk masses.....

"Oh, ah'm walkin' with Jeebus, and ah'm talkin' with Jeebus..."

[flordehinojos]

5. the thing i remember about folk massess is that after the mass, the

community it formed, and the beautiful music that was played in it, you went home to a normal life ... none of this crazy right wing stuff attached to it..

[eleny]

6. Except for that little dust up called the Vietnam War

[hemp_not_war]

2. yes

Only now do I even realize the battle of Jerico was a genocide, they killed every single person I believe.

[funflower]

4. Welcome to DU, hemp_not_war.

They killed everyone but Rahab, the harlot who betrayed her people by helping them. They did that sort of thing a lot in the Old Testament.

:hi: