Re: Trivial meanderings: catalogs received 11-28-05

On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 20:34 +0000 (GMT Standard Time),
Paul Dormer <prd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In article <IqqF4L.AIq@xxxxxxxxxxx>, djheydt@xxxxxxxxxxx (Dorothy J Heydt)
> wrote:
>
>> *From:* djheydt@xxxxxxxxxxx (Dorothy J Heydt)
>> *Date:* Tue, 29 Nov 2005 19:50:45 GMT
>>
>> In article <1133290918snz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>> Andrew Stephenson <ames@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >In article <memo.20051129110450.3608A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > prd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "Paul Dormer" writes:
>> >
>> >> In article <1133254008.313302.102610@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>> >> adoptsoldcats@xxxxxxx (Amethyst) wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > 3) MONESTARY ICONS, for devout Catholics with lots of money. I am
>> > > not
>> >> > sure if it is amusing or sad to read that you can order sets of
>> > > the 12
>> >> > apostles. But a footnote reminds you that "This set includes Saint
>> > > Paul
>> >> > as the twelfth Apsotle. (Sorry, no substitutions.)"
>> >>
>> >> Which is odd. Even I, an atheist these past 40 years, knew that a
>> > 12th
>> >> apostle was elected to replace Judas. I even remembered that his
>> > name was
>> >> Matthias.
>> >
>> >Upon whom the lot fell -- as they used to assure us in Divinity
>> >classes. Whether it was the whole lot or only part, who knows.
>>
>> I have merely wondered whether they flipped a coin, or drew
>> straws, or tossed knucklebones, or HOW they did it.
>>
>
> I recall it being explained in RI at school. My RI teacher reckoned they
> used urns something similar to the Greek method for casting lots.
>
> (RI is religious instruction, a required subject in state schools in the
> UK back in the sixties. Don't know what they do now when a high
> percentage of the pupils are likely to be Muslim, Hindu or Sikh.)

By the late 70s / early 80s it was RE (Religious Education) in my school
and it was only required for the first 3 years of secondary school (when
pupils were typically 11 - 13). At that time it was mainly about
Christianity (well I don't think we had any minorities at school) but
mixed with a quite a bit of comparative religion and ethics. Generally
it wasn't didactic but even so most people tended to drop the subject as
soon as possible.

--
Andy Leighton => andyl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"The Lord is my shepherd, but we still lost the sheep dog trials"
- Robert Rankin, _They Came And Ate Us_
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