Good video.

I used to show up at church as a kid for the free donuts at the end. BIG donuts. It was worth the drive with my family from San Jose to San Mateo. It was a Byzantine Catholic Church called St. Macrina’s.

I found this old picture online. It looked just like this: https://tinyurl.com/24u8nfn9

Patty Hearst used to worship there with her family. I remember my mom pointing them out. It was in the early 1970s, before Patty was kidnapped and brainwashed by the Symbionese Liberation Army radicals.

My mom said she used to speak with Patty’s mother and sister. Church friends were friends with Patty’s family: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK4u5v5Q7UI

It’s closed now. The priest, a reverent and good man – Fr. John – was pretty much persecuted by the liberals at the end…if I remember what my dad said correctly.

So, I believe God would be a…traditionalist with conservative leanings.

St. Augustine gets into the abhorrent and immoral practices of the 5th century pagans, as chronicled in his tome “The City of God: Against the Pagans.” It seems they broke a lot of God’s Ten Commandments as a matter of course. Augustine was there – North Africa – to witness the first fall of Christian civilization along with Rome. Great book both historically and theologically.

I’ve been reading it off and on for over ten years…when I go out to eat by myself and need something to occupy my mind before the meal arrives. I’ve only got a few pages left to go, so I should finish it…