Our last matchup saw the Irish saint Canaire skipping across the waves while "Boom Boom" Barbara came close but ultimately flamed out. I'm always a sucker for an Irish accent, so I backed Canaire and now my prediction record is 2-2.
Today's matchup features two Teutonic titans, two grappling Germans, zwei disputing Deutschers.
Henry Muhlenberg looks to me a lot like the Anglican missionaries and clergy who came over to Canada and America in the 1700s to found the church here. It's interesting to note that other Christian denominations were doing the same here, and the German diaspora would have had it's share of Lutherans coming to minister to them. (Fun fact: it wasn't just Lutherans, our friends in Collingwood at New Life Church can trace their roots back to Low German settlers in Pennsylvania who were Anabaptist, and who became known as Brethern in Christ. Christianity then as now was quite diverse).
I almost feel sorry for Henry, he has a sweet kind face, but he doesn't have the awesome moustache or reputation of Albert Schweitzer.
Pastor, theologian, musician, doctor, missionary, author - is there anything that Schweitzer didn't do better than almost anyone else? Fun fact, Schweitzer makes a cameo appearance in Young Indiana Jones, a TV series aired in the early 1990s. You can see a brief clip here.
I'm willing to bet that Schweitzer will handily win this battle of the Dueling Deutschers, but he'll go on to face Thomas the Apostle, and that will be an epic battle.
Vote here.
Good to see Muhlenberg. My wife, Beth, is a graduate of Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA.
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