#mainliners

[eopederson]

Postcard Given to Passengers on United Airlines Mainliners, 1950s

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[wisdomfish]

Americans are about six percent of the world’s population and we account for about forty-five percent of the world’s philanthropy. Among Americans, believers are far more generous than secularists. Among believers, Protestants are more liberal in their giving than Catholics. Among Protestants, evangelicals are more generous than mainliners. But if you were to ask a secular arbiter of all that is philanthropic for his opinion on how we were doing, he would invert the whole thing... That much said, when the standard is God’s generosity to us, most of us are not nearly as generous to others as we ought to be. But we may be pardoned if the evangelical artesian well, producing 20 gallons a minute, while wishing it could be 40, doesn’t want to hear lectures on charity from the dry hole of secular leftism.

Douglas Wilson,  The Dry Hole of Secular Leftism

[electronicsquid]

Split view of the men’s and ladies’s lavatories on United Airlines Mainliner

(1940)

[icegrillz]

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[reseudaimon]

Maintining My Own Moral Purity at Your Expense: State RFRA Laws and the Return of Pharisaism

In Christian hands the Pharisees have always been an easy target. The way the Gospel writers customarily depict them doesn’t leave much room for...

"Loathing religious hypocrisy offers the satisfying advantage of being ill-disposed toward a shortcoming from which most of us feel certain only other people suffer, but from which we ourselves have built up through force of will and strength of character a rather robust immunity. In that sense, hypocrisy is the ethical equivalent of literary irony—a defect in me everybody else sees but about which I remain blithely unsuspecting."