SweetFreedom Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
Mushy pap, weak-tea, weedy?
What does "mushy pap" and "weak-tea" mean? Just means too emotional?
Background info:
THE POVERTY OF AGNOSTICISM
The robust Muscular Christian haranguing us from the pulpit of
my old school chapel admitted a sneaking regard for atheists. They
at least had the courage of their misguided convictions. What this
preacher couldn't stand was agnostics: namby-pamby, mushy pap,
weak-tea, weedy, pallid fence-sitters. He was partly right, but for
wholly the wrong reason. In the same vein, according to Quentin
de la Bedoyere, the Catholic historian Hugh Ross Williamson
'respected the committed religious believer and also the committed
atheist. He reserved his contempt for the wishy-washy boneless
mediocrities who flapped around in the middle.'
Background info:
THE POVERTY OF AGNOSTICISM
The robust Muscular Christian haranguing us from the pulpit of
my old school chapel admitted a sneaking regard for atheists. They
at least had the courage of their misguided convictions. What this
preacher couldn't stand was agnostics: namby-pamby, mushy pap,
weak-tea, weedy, pallid fence-sitters. He was partly right, but for
wholly the wrong reason. In the same vein, according to Quentin
de la Bedoyere, the Catholic historian Hugh Ross Williamson
'respected the committed religious believer and also the committed
atheist. He reserved his contempt for the wishy-washy boneless
mediocrities who flapped around in the middle.'
Top answer
I think they all are negative descriptions meaning, in effect, worthless . "Mushy pap is bad food, nobody likes "weak tea" and "weeds" are worthless plants.
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I think they all are negative descriptions meaning, in effect, worthless. "Mushy pap is bad food, nobody likes "weak tea" and "weeds" are worthless plants.
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GPYI think of these terms more as meaning "feeble".That's a good interpretation, I think.
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