Tuesday, February 07, 2023

Post-SOTU Pre -SOTU

I’m working on a post about secular rituals as expressed around Xmas. So this caught my eye, mostly because I have no idea what she means, but it’s obviously pejorative. 

It’s also clearly meant to appeal to Southern Baptists (Dad is a SB preacher, or was) who consider “ritual” to be something “Papists” do (the worst aspects of the Reformed tradition die hard). Well, SBs and anybody SB adjacent. Basically it’s a Southern cultural thing, except for rituals we approve of: like Friday night football and tailgating. Which isn’t just related to football games.

So it’s a Southern thang. But it’s also so mockable:

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