Of Monasteries and Convents

I was talking to that girl at high school shortly before I left and somehow that subject of monks and nuns came up, perhaps because she was taking a class from the nun or something like that. Like I was saying, we don't have monks and nuns in Protestantism. We don't believe in that cruel and wicked system of enforced slavery of which the Catholics are so fond, that coddler of a pretentiously monastical pseudspirituality that means nothing ultimately as we all get to heaven as long as we have accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, single or married. It matters not. Sadly, there are just not enough men to go around statistically speaking but anyway we single women ought to be able to work our jobs without this continual harassment from obnoxious foreigners, mostly ignorant Tibetans whose religious system is basically meaningless, without form and void, a sad waste of human potential. Sadly, Europe's church of medieval times was sometimes bogged down in irrelevant controversies so was not able to do much with the China of Marco Polo's day, but anyway God is gracious and merciful. Better late than never when it comes to turning China around.