Yes, it is hard for me to imagine ever having any reasonable conversation with the Whitaker twins. I noticed on Facebook that Pat was living in Atlanta, which is also the residence place of Winnie and her airplane pilot husband whose name I forgot, at least that was where they were the last I heard or saw something about them, while Michelle was living somewhere in the Midwest.
Someone, maybe it was them, was trying to make points by saying that only they can be considered U.S. citizens and Christians, because they attended the Union Church, an ecumenical church which they view as the official U.S. church and social community there in San Salvador and its various youth programs, whereas we were attending a native church of our own denomination in Spanish language actually because after all our parents were missionaries of a certain denomination and it would look sort of weird in terms of church politics for us to be running off to some other church denomination even if it might have perhaps afforded more social life in terms of interaction with a greater variety of other U.S. citizens rather than natives. Not that we didn't visit another church on a few occasions, but we didn't assimilate with the ecumenically Union Church at that time, or the Baptists for that matter, not that we don't know who some of them were from high school. So does being a non-Union Church Christian make me a native non-Christian? It just would have been too weird for us to be legally forced to congregate at the Union Church when obviously freedom of religion is a key element of our reason for being there in the country in the first place. You can go wherever you want. I am just saying. But of course these simple-minded twins are actually Canadians who think that everything has to be the Church of England. But this is the U.S. where we don't have an official state church, although overseas I don't know how things work in some other countries. There was no law requiring us to attend a particular church, at least not at that time. It was just that we were AG and that was our whole reason for being there.
