Re: Evidences of God

On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 17:12:31 GMT, Susan C. Mitchell
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>On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 08:59:01 -0700, stoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>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
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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.  
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>>The spelling xtianity was generated by Christians millenia ago.  The
>>'x', iirc, is reminiscent of the Greek "CH."
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>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

Thank you, Susan.
         

   
             Stoney
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