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  1. Dec 2019
    1. When we learned about the 100th anniversary, we thought it was a good time to talk about the relationship between sport and religion, especially between the Habs and the religious context in Montreal and in Quebec," Bauer said.

      Sports definitely can be someones religion.

    2. The arena is their temple, the players are their saviours, and those who worship them pray that the sacrifices made on the ice — of blood, sweat and tears — will lead them to glory.

      Hockey is like a religious experience.

  2. Nov 2019
    1. In her heart she felt that never since the earth began was there a springtime like this springtime to-be.

      There was something about this spring that the earth has never had before.

    2. But it was said jestingly rather than in malice, and the speaker ended by adding his own laugh.

      It was said as only a joke and was not meant to be harmful.

    3. he roared in his big voice. The wise beast dug his calked shoes through the deep slush and sprang for the bank, throwing himself into the collar at every leap. Just as they reached land a cake of ice tilted beneath their weight and sank, leaving a space of open water.

      This makes Samuel Chapdelaine sound like he is not even human.

    1. These good Christians were prisoners to the Iroquois, who were taking them into their country to be put to death. But our good God granted them the favor of enabling them to escape by the way; and they came to us to recount all that I have set down in writing.

      Did God really help them escape or were they just lucky enough to have found a way to escape?

    1. Father Antoine Daniel and the other Fathers go every day through the Cabins, teaching the children, whether baptized or not, Christian doctrine,—namely, the sign of the Cross, [11] the Pater, the Ave, the Credo, the Commandments of God, the Prayer to the Guardian Angel, and other brief prayers, all in their own tongue, because these Peoples have a natural inaptitude for learning any other.

      This seems very forceful and cultish.

    2. Generally speaking they praise an approve the Christian Religion, and blame their wicked customs; but when will they leave them off entirely?

      What made the Christian religion so appealing to them?

    3. E have learned that the salvation of so many innocent souls, washed and made white in the Blood of the Son of God, is stirring very deeply the hearts of many, and is exciting new desires in them to leave old France that they may come to the New.

      It sounds like they are being told they have to go to "New France" in order to be closer to God.