I parked next to a new Lexus at the bank yesterday and my car being
as low slung as it is, a magnetic sign on its door was right in my
face. I had to think for a while, wondering if the state of American
education was really that defective or if the owner simply wished it
were.
Now
I'm assuming the Lexus driver, an elderly women was referring to Roman
Catholicism and not to some abstract universality of taste -- an
assumption aided by the iconography -- and if that assumption is
correct, she must assume that Jewish followers of Jesus as the Messiah
became a universal church based in Rome in the year of Jesus'
crucifixion.
I don't want to seem like I'm picking on
Catholics, after all a good portion of this fine Southern Community are
convinced and would argue a little too heatedly that the entire universe
was established in 4004 BC, or at least our infinitesimal mote.
Funny
how organizations that use history as a justification, have to tailor
it to fit -- with an occasional taking in or letting out of the seams.
Somewhere along the line Constantine and perhaps Athanasius of
Alexandria were patched over or removed as you might eliminate a pocket
or a buttonhole, but who's going to argue with the old lady Lexus
driver. It's Florida and she's probably armed.