Baldrick: My father was a nun.
Blackadader: No, he wasn't.
Baldrick: Yes, he was. Whenever he was up in court, the magistrate would say "occupation", and he would say "nun".
I think of that one whenever anyone claims that next after the niqab ban will be a ban on nuns. But covering one's head is entirely different from covering one's face, and is a fully accepted part of Western culture.
In any case, nuns in Western Europe and North America now hardly do wear the habit. If they did, and if they did everything that that represents, then there would still be a lot of them, as there are in many other parts of the world.
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Lots of things that the Church did were a fully accepted part of western culture. Didn't stop the secularists going for them did it?
ReplyDeleteNuns will be lumped in with burkha madness however much different the truth is.
In France, perhaps. In fact, quite probably. But not here.
ReplyDeleteI agree, the burkha ban is unlikely to make an appearance on this island, but the unjustified link between habits and the burkha will always be raised by those with an agenda.
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