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Kim's justifiably cynical use of metaphor here (I
doctored the angel)
caused me to reflect yet again on my 5th grade teacher at Saint
Clement's. She spoke of things to expect in the end times
Two I remember are:
- Ireland will sink into the sea, and thus escape the coming horror as reward for
remaining true to the faith, and
- Life would become a terrifying existence
where people would be reduced to using bows and arrows to defend
themselves from marauders. Nobody would dare walk the streets.
This is he same nun who, while asking us to pray for the imprisoned (by
Godless Communists) Cardinal József Mindszenty, cautioned us never to
take our freedom for granted. That just as the Germans under
Hitler,
and the Russians under Lenin and Stalin, had turned nations into a
police state by offering false platitudes and promising a heaven on
earth, we too could succumb should ever allow bad government to
subjugate us.
Here's
the part that really stuck with me.
As an exercise we wrote down a list of
things that, if they ever happened, would be cause to turn on our
government, not that God forbid, there was any hint of that
happening.
Without such a list, or being grounded in the what freedom entails, she
instructed, it would be easy to incrementally accept that which
would enslave us.
I am not making that up. I'm sure her tutelage is responsible for
my life-long, utter hatred of Communism, and all that it stands for.
Perfect for just about
any election 
