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# Friday
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/29005/
- Published: 2013-08-23T06:16:34.000Z
- Updated: 2013-08-23T06:16:34.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Essay, #wpChunk

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BYCU

The new Gatorade: You can now get drunk while exercising. [They've added electrolytes to beer](http://www.smh.com.au/national/australian-boffins-brew-up-a-hydrating-beer-20130816-2s20b.html?ref=thedailyeudemon.com). \* \* \* \* \* \* \* This might be the most interesting drinking story of the year: [Wine and Catholicism among the Tibetans of China's Yunnan Province](http://harpers.org/blog/2013/07/days-of-wine-and-rosaries/?utm%5Fsource=Catholic%2C+Ink.+-+A+weekly+e-newsletter+from+Catholic+Fiction.net+%26+Tuscany+Press&utm%5Fcampaign=d848709bc7-Catholic%5FInk%5F7%5F28%5F2013&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fterm=0%5F25239372f8-d848709bc7-52159185). Here's a generous excerpt:

> The Society of Foreign Missions of Paris (still going strong today after 350 years) was planning to evangelize Tibet. It was the mid-nineteenth century, and French adventurers had slowly been nudging the empire's influence up the Mekong from its Asian base in Indochina. The Pope granted his assent; the Qing, under duress, added theirs. Barred, sometimes violently, from preaching within Tibet itself, the missionaries set up camp among the Tibetans living right on its edge, in northwest Yunnan.

> What inroads they made proved to be intensely local – family by family, village by village – and Tibetan Catholicism never extended beyond a few valleys, a few thousand souls. The Trung – many of whom are now converting to a kind of indigenous evangelical Protestantism–were never “reached,” but some of their Nu cousins were. After eighty years of this unimaginably difficult and controversial work, the missionaries were sent packing by the party after 1949.

> The most revered and best-remembered of the fathers, Père Genestier, lies buried in a Bingzhongluo churchyard, which I visited one Christmas as the bells were ringing and the Tibetan dancers were starting to form their circles. Let Party atheists, orthodox Catholics, and other Tibetans think what they may: by now the Tibetan Catholics emphatically have their own thing going.

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