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something i've held sacred and true as gospel my entire life is starting to be questioned. could it be that Mr. Keillor, long thought by me to be Lutheran, is in fact of the Episcopal faith?!?! how...can...this...be? i think a part of me may have died with this discovery...
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There's a reason why libraries filed Keillor's "Lake Woebegon" books in the fiction section...the stuff is only semi-autobiographical, and in fact is largely invented.
In his radio monologues, while he's talked about the Lutherans a lot, it's mainly been about fictional Lutherans. I don't recall him ever identifying himself as one in real life.
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oh, im aware his stories are just that, stories, but i'd always embraced him as one of my own. NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i will fight this claim with my life.
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Culturally speaking, pretty much everyone in small town Minnesota is a Lutheran. Even the Episcopalians.
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Of course, in the books and monologues, he says he grew up Sanctified Brethren, so you should know at the very least he didn't grow up Lutheran. Posts: 21182 | Registered: Sep 2004
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quote: something i've held sacred and true as gospel my entire life is starting to be questioned. could it be that Mr. Keillor, long thought by me to be Lutheran, is in fact of the Episcopal faith?!?! how...can...this...be? i think a part of me may have died with this discovery...
Episcopalians are wonderful people. My opinion of him has just gone up.
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Well...they aren't that different, really. I'm a Lutheran, and I'm perfectly comfortable in an Episcopalian church (both liturgically and socially).
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Megan, i know, my initial post was (i thought) obviously facetious. i rib my Episcopal and LMS friends the same way, seeing as how i'm ELCA. it's friendly rivalry...losing Keillor to the darkside is just WRONG!
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Keillor's religion humor has me laughing so hard sometimes it is unsafe to be driving. He can poke fun without being disrespectful, and he cracks me up.
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quote:Travellers can always tell where the Lutheran church is because it's the ugliest building in town.
That is not even close to true in the Rice area of Houston. The Lutheran and Episcopalian churches were nice-looking. The Baptist church was much uglier. And then some of the buildings on the Rice campus (Lovett College, for one . . . ugly toaster-looking building).
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In La Canada, CA, there's a Lutheran church that the locals, even many of the Lutherans who attend, call the Church of the Holy Touchdown because there's a huge statue out front with its arms upraised just like a "touchdown" signal. You can't tell whether it's supposed to be Jesus or St. Peter or Luther or what, just that it's big, bald, has a quote from Isaiah (I think) on the bottom, and is apparently watching a giant football game.
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Oh, and I have to say that the ugliest churches I ever saw are some of the LDS churches in south-eastern Nevada that look like bomb shelters or bunkers. Not even a cross because we don't use them.
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Yeah, we need to sell some of those tan brick meetinghouses from the 50s to the Lutherans. They'd appreciate them. Posts: 5957 | Registered: Oct 2001
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