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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 14:46:22 EST
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- Comments: Originally-From: Peter Montgomery
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- From: GUBERT@UKCC.UKY.EDU
- Subject: Re: Deep beliefs
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- > From: GUBERT@UKCC.UKY.EDU
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- > beliefs and not insult them. However, if I do not believe something
- > to be sacred, then I cannot profane it, nor can I be sacriligious
- > unless I am operating within the religious community. I feel certain
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- Explain to me then, why so many people find the use of Christ and
- Jesus Christ so effective as swear words, rather than Hitler, or Stalin,
- or Pontius Pilate. Funny I don't hear anyone taking the name of Moses
- or Mohammed, or Allah or Buddha in vain.
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- Please ... don't be so disingenuous; it's embedded in the culture; christian
- imagery dominates US culture. None of the three aformentioned 'gentlemen'
- serves as the basis of a religious movement. BTW, I don't use such phrases
- routinely. Seems to me I've heard "holy Moses" more than once? nicht wahr?
- As for Allah or Buddah, who knows what occurs outside our little corner of
- the world's cultures.
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- As I recall, there is evan a professed Christian on this list who thinks that
- because GOD is misspelled, it removes the use of HIS name in vain. At least
- that's what I infer, since it's done so often.
-
- So, your particular Christian sect forbids oaths? A little inconvenient
- in enlisting recruits in the Crusade??
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- JAG
-