Newt Gingrich & Catholics

[likethebeer]

I can't help but feeling that it makes complete & total sense that a man with a history of philandering would be attracted to the Catholic church, which strikes me as a fleshy, messy, and gluttonous church, as opposed to the austerity of the Protestant side of Christianity.

I have a theory about the protestants: coming out of northern Europe, they lived with the cold, long winters which helped to solidify the concept of a hell. Because, obviously, you can't really enjoy the summer, because you know at the end, there will be the punishment of hellish winter. So you work and work in order to prepare for the winter, and you're thrifty, etc. The Catholics, though, mostly thrived in Spain & Italy, which are warmer, spicier, and redolent of sex & money.

(Ok, well I'm just picturing The Turkish Bath, by Ingres, when I write that, even though its subject is supposed to be Turkish & not Catholic. Though, really, Ingres called it the Turkish Bath, but it was just really an excuse to paint fleshy naked women in the mythical harem.

Anyway, that's the image I think of, unless you want to look at Titian and Raphael. And maybe I think of Raphael b/c Ingres painted a series of pieces with the figure of Raphael and, who was she called, la Fortorina, or something like that - his lover.... Ok, La Fornarina.)

Comments

[kitchenwitch.livejournal.com]

I like that theory.

And, dang, there's some hot ladies in that harem.

theories

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

I have a book waiting out there that I need to write that explains the link between: climate/religion/art. After I write that book on the importance of bleach across the entire globe.

And Ingres was always into the boneless, pretty, babes. I should get a bio on him over the holidays, b/c it sounds like his indulgent art would be fun to read about in the winter.

[sirreal13.livejournal.com]

I can totally picture Newt as teh woman wearing the fez and grabbing her friend's breast

[sirreal13.livejournal.com]

Have you ever seen "Babette's Feast"? A retired chef from Paris goes to Scandinavia to cook for the elederly daughters of a deceased Lutheran Pastor. Talk about a clash of cultures and culinary tastes. The ladies say indulgence of any kind is a sin, so they eat soup made of dried fish and stale bread.