Re: Evidences of God

On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 08:59:01 -0700, stoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 22:00:07 +0200, "Chain Smoker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>Message ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in alt.atheism;
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>>"stoney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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>>> If you have a question, feel free to inquire.  Most folks here in aa
>>> have no axe to grind.  I do warn you people here have the tendency to be
>>> brutally honest.
>>
>>Yes, I have a question.  Pretty much every one of the atheists that I have
>>come across refer to all of the world's major religions and religious
>>leaders by the same names as followers of that religion do.  For a couple
>>examples, they call Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, and Judaism, Islam,
>>Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, and Judaism, respectively.  Buddha, Confucius,
>>Mohammed, and the Dalai Lama, they call Buddha, Confucius, Mohammed, and the
>>Dalai Lama.
>>
>>These lists are not complete by any means.  In fact, this rule extends, in
>>my experience, to all religions but one.  Christianity, you often refer to
>>as xtianity.  
>
>The spelling xtianity was generated by Christians millenia ago.  The
>'x', iirc, is reminiscent of the Greek "CH."

http://www.florilegium.org/files/NICOLAA/Xmas-art.html -- "The True
Meaning of Xmas", an article written by Susan Carroll-Clark for the
Society for Creative Anachronism.  The spelling "Xtianity" is, as you
point out, a contraction dating back, if not "millenia", at least to
the twelfth century CE (along with "xiana" for "Christiana" and "Xmas"
for "Christmas", and the simple use of "X" for "Christ").  The X isn't
an X, it's a rendering of Greek letter chi, the first letter in the
title "christos".

Think globally, act locally.
     Susan

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