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Atheists & Agnostics

Mr.Bill

(24,846 posts) Wed Mar 6, 2019, 02:51 PM Mar 2019

Ahh, yes...Ash Wednesday... [View all]

the day we get to see which of the cable news people and politicians we see on TV are Catholics.

Funny thing is, growing up in a Catholic household in the 50s and 60s, I don't remember it being a thing to leave it there all day. We washed it off as soon as we got home from church, and my parents didn't object.

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Ahh, yes...Ash Wednesday... [View all] Mr.Bill Mar 2019 OP

It's all a show PJMcK Mar 2019 #1

Oh, yes, Catholics always put on a great show. Mr.Bill Mar 2019 #2

Not just Catholics unc70 Mar 2019 #3

I knew about Episcopalians (Catholic lite) but not Methodists. n/t Mr.Bill Mar 2019 #5

Public piety. trotsky Mar 2019 #4

Eh, more hamburgers for me on Fridays TlalocW Mar 2019 #6

I never minded having fish one night a week. I looked forward to Fridays as a child. Mr.Bill Mar 2019 #7

I hated fish and still do - I dreaded Fridays. rurallib Mar 2019 #13

Yeah, I ran into a couple smudged foreheads at the store today. progressoid Mar 2019 #8

Eye rolling is persecution Cartoonist Mar 2019 #9

You are so right. progressoid Mar 2019 #11

not just Catholics handmade34 Mar 2019 #10

Tribalism requires the labeling of both members and outsiders. lindysalsagal Mar 2019 #12

Went to a catholic school so the ashes were applied early and left on all day rurallib Mar 2019 #14

The day people can show edhopper Mar 2019 #15