Being thankful in tough times
Michael Paulson asks some members of the local clergy: Why be thankful when times are tough?
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The Globe is always
The Globe is always inclusive on religion, but were they not able to find a single Catholic priest in Boston? :)
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i think they are all in "treatment"
In order to be "inclusive"
...they would need to interview hundreds of clergypeople. Not too practical. So it seems they picked a very small group of clergy, and logically they picked representatives from the two major religious groups in which a large percentage of followers observe Thanksgiving.
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Good point
The Mormons do have that massive, hundreds-of-years presence in Boston, unlike the Catholics, who everyone knows came in with the Kennedys.
Clearly
we should judge the relevance of a group's opinions on how long their ancestors have been in a place. That's always worked real well.
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Exactly!
except, um, who said anything about judging?
oh. it's you again. never mind.
and that bit about hundreds? It's polite to label such wildly pointless diversions as "straw man" or "red herring." You pick this time.
what
The original comment was that Catholicism had been left out. I pointed out that they only talked to a handful of people, so they left out another couple hundred religious traditions practiced in this area. Catholics were hardly the only people excluded. Where's the straw man?
Can you explain why you mentioned that Catholics have been here longer than Mormons?
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