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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:09:28 -0800
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- From: Peter Montgomery <MONTGOMERY@CAMINS.CAMOSUN.BC.CA>
- Subject: Re: Deep beliefs
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- > From: GUBERT@UKCC.UKY.EDU
-
- > Please ... don't be so disingenuous;
- Why not? Everyone else on this list seems to have an attitude.
-
- > it's embedded in the culture;
- Tends to be a necessary condition for a deeply held belief.
- Funny thing. Before WWII there was some doubt about whether the
- church (of any persuasion) in England would survive at all. During
- the war, apparently, there wasn't an empty pew to be found. That's
- deep.
-
- > Seems to me I've heard "holy Moses" more than once?
- Point taken.
-
- > nicht wahr?
- Du (Sie?) hat es recht.
-
- > As for Allah or Buddah, who knows what occurs outside our little corner of
- > the world's cultures.
- I've been told (but am very sceptical) that abuse of sacred names is a
- peculiarly Christian trait. Maybe there's a Joseph Campbell doctor in
- the resonant interval.
-
- >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.
- I've heard of Jewish concern with not mentioning the name of God, but
- in spite of having made connections with virtually every brand of
- Christianity around, that is not a preoccupation I have run into.
-
- > So, your particular Christian sect forbids oaths?
- I think it has something to do with one of the Ten Commandments
- (oops, pardon the disingenuousness, but its compulsive; must be
- something in the 'air').
-
- > A little inconvenient in enlisting recruits in the Crusade??
- No crusade here. Just poking a few McLuhanesque probes into the
- electrosphere to see what comes whizzing back. Some time back
- I commented on Katherine Hepburn's physical manifestation of her self-
- confessed over bearing ego, and got the comment about WORDS-L reach-
- ing a new low of bad taste. Made me wonder, when I saw the profanity,
- how much lower it might want to take itself. (Not that I don't find
- such usage quite unacceptable.) What we got basically is
- the usual cultural gear slippage. I suppose if I had just refered to
- the profanity as bad taste, we would all have gone along our own
- little merry data routes.
-