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- From: "Amy Young Leith" <alyoung@kiwi.ucs.indiana.edu>
- Subject: (none)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.214327.16873@news.cs.indiana.edu>
- Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
- References: <BzGp8w.J74@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1gsvagINN3in@agate.berkeley.edu> <BzH1xL.GAv@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 21:43:21 -0500
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- In article <BzH1xL.GAv@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> ivaliote@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Lotus ) writes:
- >I'm sorry, but I feel that, just like Christians, you're making things hard on
- >yourselves by refusing to identify that people 'out there' have a notion of
- >what that word means. I dunno, I think of pagan and picture hairy men breaking
- >open bones and drinking the marrow. I know that isn't the whole story (or
- >perhaps any of it), but come on...
-
- Obviously you are 'out there' but in the numerous circles that I run,
- the word Pagan clearly denotes a non-Christian, probably nature based
- religion. Even my parents, who are not very learned in religions,
- even Christianity, had a general grasp of what I meant when I used
- that term. If it didn't work, I wouldn't use it. But it does. Until
- it becomes a problem, I will continue to use it.
-
- >No. But they invented a few. A fe that sound silly and pompous when they use
- >them. Pagan is such a word. Almost comical in connotation. I don't mean to
- >insult you....I don't know what I mean to do. Yeargh.
-
- It may sound that way to you but I'm afraid you aren't in the
- majority.
-
- amy
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