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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 14:35:42 EST
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- From: Rashmi <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Curses Soiled Again (was Re: Deep beliefs)
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- In-Reply-To: <9212221643.AA07277@cbis.ECE.Drexel.EDU>; from "Susan Harwood
- Kaczmarczik" at Dec 22, 92 10:41 am
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- > > or Pontius Pilate. Funny I don't hear anyone taking the name of Moses
- > > or Mohammed, or Allah or Buddha in vain.
- [...]
- > There are people who swear by those other deities you mentioned, no doubt.
- > But come on. This is Europe and America. Christendom. You know. So of
- > course the term most heard by people is going to have a Christian basis.
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- In India, people use "Bhagwan" (generic term for God) as well as more specific
- names of Rama, Krishna or whoever routinely. "Hey Allah" is likewise a
- commonly used phrase among Moslems. It's mainly used in the sense that the
- original poster who started off this thread did, i.e., "Jesus, do you guys talk
- or what?", nothing blasphemous there, imo. Actually, I don't understand the
- "in vain" in Peter's comment.
-
- Of course, it seems more "natural" to say Christ while using English.
-
- -rashmi
-