M& D Deep Duck Separation of Church & State

[Mark Thibodeau]

Yes, there is a Roman Catholic ceremony, not much practiced now, called The
Tenebraeum. And yes, it involves snuffing all the candles and clapping
these special boxes together to make an unholy racket in the dark.

Very powerful. I've been to one.

Jerky

On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 5:47 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Look up Tenebrae on the p wiki and see that in one understanding her
> 'darkness' involves
> stripping all the icons and trappings and lights around an altar and
> ending with naked darkness.
>
> And we have Cherrycoke's, the imposter parson and born-again secularist....
>
> Ways to atmospherically, metaphorically suggest that, in the religious
> country that IS now--1786 and forever so far--, that is English and
> fragmented America, coming up is a Constitution that enshrines the
> (secular) rule of law divorced from ANY specific religious connection?
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>
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