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kiri

(794 posts)

7. Boston priest pale on meeting atheist

Reply to Mariana (Reply #3)

Fri Apr 19, 2019, 12:20 PM

Apr 2019

I was at an Interfaith dinner, and a UU minister(!) introduced me as an atheist. A priest next to me I had been chatting amicably with --became visibly pale, and within a few minutes got up and walked to the end of the table.

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Did that happen in Boston, by any chance? Mariana Apr 2019 #3

Yes, but... Act_of_Reparation Apr 2019 #4

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