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• 9/3/2010 9:41 PM Bud wrote:
  I read Dear God-- My take?
  
  What did (would) Ronald do?
  Church attendance, that is.
  There's a whole lotta JUDGIN' going on.
  Takes an awfully self-righteous man to engage in THIS list of entries on THAT topic.
  Self-righteousness is rampant these days.
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  1. 9/3/2010 10:07 PM Cultural Offering wrote:
     My take is that he can do whatever he wants on whatever day of the week he wants.  But let's quit pretending it's about others.  This administration has self-righteousness down cold.
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• 9/4/2010 8:23 AM Bud wrote:
  OK, when I'm Prez I'll come to your church, but, I might feel conflicted about serial disruptions. I am sensitive that way.
  I was reacting to the appalling but apparently easy judgmentalism on that other blog, smug and smarmy.
  
  By the way, what DID Reagan do?
  
  He was certainly pretty much under the radar in this aspect, while tactically (cynically?) consolidating his victorious coalition electorate by welcoming and empowering many with theocratic tendencies. He was not of their ilk. (The religion is fine-- but politically, those with the tendencies challenge the republic increasingly.) IMHO.
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  1. 9/4/2010 11:40 AM Cultural Offering wrote:
     Point taken.
     
     For the "what did Reagan do" we turn to Edmund Morris's Dutch - a great read, by the way:
     
     "Shyness more than apathy, kept Reagan away from public worship.  He had always considered prayer to be a private business and did not care to be stared at while he sang hymns.  Nor did he want his huge retinue of guards and advance men to disturb the peace of churches around town.  Whatever spiritual counsel he needed he got from silent colloquies, usually at an open window, with 'the Man Upstairs."
     
     The similarities continue. . .
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• 9/6/2010 7:27 AM Bud wrote:
  Like R.R., I feel that prayer should be mainly a private business...it can get way out of hand and become a not-so-social tool.
  
  Similarities with whom? You, B.O., or me and my above-mentioned sensitive streak...? Sounds like he had my take (or my parents') on this one.
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  1. 9/6/2010 11:12 AM Cultural Offering wrote:
     It was a joke about B.O. and R.R. being similar because they rarely attended church as Presidents.  I think of the two as polar opposites.
     
     And it was not directed at you.  I apologize if if came across that way.
     
     I truly enjoy your comments. . .and I am pretty sure your musical tastes as well.
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• 9/6/2010 12:34 PM Bud wrote:
  Thanks. I appreciate that. Actually, I think that was a similarity on the disruption issue that I suspect all 4 of us could have supported.
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