As this old Yankee Congregationalist told the rector of my wife's (Episcopal) church last Sunday, I consider the entire Lenten business as ecclesiastical self-abuse.
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On Mon, Mar 10, 2025 at 05:49 PM, JGG KahnSr wrote:
Probably all the ethnic German and Scandanavian Lutherans in the upper midwest who didn't consider beer an intoxicating beverage but simply a fact of?
normal life.? It was mostly us old Yankees who looked at it askance¡ªbut we saw no problem with moderate consumption of hard cider (although usually?
not on Sunday afternoons).
I live in a dedicated beer region. Franconia has got more beer sorts than inhabitants (felt). In the big cities the majority is Lutheran (as I am). And yeah, this is a part of normal life. After the carnival season (that ended last wednesday, called "Aschermittwoch"
in Germany) we are used to substitute normal food with beer (okay, not completely) and it works.
