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3. This part seemed to answer it...
Mon May 18, 2015, 07:31 AM
May 2015
Answer your grandson's question honestly. He asked you what you thought about his being forced to go to church.

I'm guessing Grandma can answer: "That sucks." How that avoids pissing off Mom is a good question, though.

I was just sort of surprised that such a question would even make it into "Dear Abby." And it seems like more evidence of the growing secular trend in America. Not too many years ago, the answer probably WOULD have been: "STFU, Grandma, majority rules."

In the local paper here in East Jesus-Stan, "Dear Abby" runs right beside Billy Graham's daily serving of religious goop. The answer in Billy's column is always "Jesus." I'm sure it's staff-written by the elves in Billy's workshop.

At first I suspected they just re-ran columns from about 1955, but they occasionally mention the Internet these days. When used to praise Jebus, Internet good. When used to personally investigate Xianity, Internet bad. You need a licensed Sophisticated Theologian for that.


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