Anvil or Hammer

April 29, 2012 by Angelico Nguyen at 10:45 pm

On one side of my family: Huguenot refugees, who settled in America to escape the power of Catholic France.

On the other side: Minh Mang, aka the ‘Nero of Indochina’, scourge of Vietnamese Catholic converts and missionaries.

Gives a certain frisson to the singing of ‘Faith of Our Fathers’, let me tell you.

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7 Comments Filed Under: Angelic guest posting, breaking into song, Catholic with a capital K, for self-examination, Heaven, kulture klash, me, xian sects Tagged With: both sides now, heathens and/or heretics, providence and reverse providence can be hard to distinguish, the details of my life are quite inconsequential, wheat and tares, You had better decide if you're hanging on the cross or banging in the nails

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MrsDarwin says:

April 30, 2012 at 6:03 am

You contain multitudes.

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- Angelico Nguyen, Esq., OP says:
  
  April 30, 2012 at 2:06 pm
  
  Legio sum.
  
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Matthew Lickona says:

April 30, 2012 at 7:23 am

I’m picturing a Christian mystic surfer-type, meditatively waxing his board while he talks to a conflicted Angeleno: “Hangin’ or bangin’, dude. Hangin’ or bangin’.”

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- Angelico Nguyen, Esq., OP says:
  
  April 30, 2012 at 2:10 pm
  
  Maybe a dream sequence from Surfing with ~~Scapulars~~ Mel.
  
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Southern Expat says:

April 30, 2012 at 8:03 am

Hey, well, my grandfather was a Mason.

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- Angelico Nguyen, Esq., OP says:
  
  April 30, 2012 at 2:08 pm
  
  Legio es.
  
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- MrsDarwin says:
  
  April 30, 2012 at 7:28 pm
  
  MY grandfather was an Episcopalian.
  
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