Xianity (was: Re: To Mike re insensitivity)

[Guest guest]

> I object to you using xianity in place of Christianity, I find it insulting

to Christians. of course, if it were a Jew or other minority protesting, it

would be a moot point, because you wouldn't treat what they hold dear any way

you please in the first place, would you? Mike. PS I'm not a Christian, I'm an

agnostic.

>

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You are obviously ill-informed. There is no insult whatever in the use of

the abbreviation " Xianity " for " Christianity " . The English letter " X " is the

approximate shape of the Greek letter " Chi " , which is the first letter of the

Greek word " Christos " (from which is derived the English title " Christ " ) -- and

" Christos " is the Greek translation of the Hebrew word " Moshiach " , meaning " the

annointed one " , and usually translated as " Messiah. " Greek Orthodox Christians

use " X " all the time as an abbreviation for " Christos. "

Observant Jews, by the way, never refer to Jesus as " Christ " or " Jesus

Christ " , for the simple reason that we understand that " Christ " was not the

man's name, but rather means " messiah " , which Jews do not believe he was. For

the same reason, we don't use " A.D. " when referring to years beginning with the

year 1 of the common era -- " A.D. " stands for " Anno Domini " (Latin for " year of

our Lord " ) which is obviously an inappropriate phrase for Jews to use. We use

" C.E. " instead -- " common era " -- and " B.C.E. " ( " before the common era " ) for

years before the year 1.

There are no insults or disrespect involved in any of these abbreviations.

~Rita

> Re: To Mike re insensitivity

>

>

> In a message dated 5/20/01 4:20:18 PM US Eastern Standard Time,

> kenr1@c... writes:

>

> >>Want a real shock? I don't much care what phlebotomists or astrologers

> think either.<<

>

> Uh, ok.

>

>

>

> Don't you take whether indoctrination is accomplish by lying and

> deceit? Don't you think there is a huge distance between a woman who

> goes to a nunnery to become a nun coming out with a set of beliefs that

> she was expecting to have going in and someone going to a weekend

> retreat to work for world peace and coming out believing Rev. Moon is

> Jesus Incarnate?

>

>

>

> Ken, you might think it is insane that anyone could believe that Rev. Moon

is

> Jesus Incarnate, and I would certainly agree, but the fact is people,

> especially young people, adhere to all sorts of nonsense. Some of them

> really believe space aliens are beaming them up to the Mother Ship on a

> regular basis, to poke at their genitals and even to impregnate them. Many

> such people are induced, or encouraged, to believe such fantasies by their

> therapists. Lying deceit do not necessarily have anything to do with it.

> St. really appears to have believed this itinerant Jewish carpenter

rose

> from the dead and was god -- he wasn't lying about it. Go figure.

>

> If Xianity was being born right now, you, and I would suspect Mr. Hassan,

> would describe it as a " destructive cult. "

>

> Speaking of which, what is your/Hassan's definition of " destructive cult " ?

> How many of them are less than 100 years old? How many over?

>

> --Mona--