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- From: jt2n+@andrew.cmu.edu (John Trivelli)
- Newsgroups: alt.rush-limbaugh
- Subject: re: bleeding hearts
- Message-ID: <gez6Tki00WB6IS40lS@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: 8 Nov 92 01:05:52 GMT
- Organization: Design, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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- >erom: bd@fluent@dartmouth.EDU (Brice Dowaliby)
- >Subject: Re: bleeding hearts
- >Date: 7 Nov 92 14:13:51 GMT
- >>[...]
- >I have never seen an image of Christ with his heart pierced - the
- >wound is always much lower in the chest than that. I have also
- >never seen an image of Christ where he is "holding his shirt open".
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- >Robert, what ever made you think that "bleeding-heart" was a reference
- >to Christ?
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- The image of Christ with a bleeding heart is common in Catholic religious
- texts such as those little sheets of paper you get when you light a candle in
- church.
- The standard image is a portrait of Christ w/halo and a bleeding heart
- suspended in the air in front of or above Christ. The heart usually has a
- crown of thorns around it.
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- For the metaphorically impaired, this refers to the idea that Christ suffered
- and died for us.
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- A "bleeding heart" is someone who suffers or goes through torment so that
- others, who may not deserve it, can benefit.
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- It is ironic that the absent referent in "Bleeding-Heart-Liberal" is
- Christ. In America, Conservatives are superficially associated with
- religious values (usually Protestant). This connection is misleading,
- it has been invoked by extreme-right-wing politcal interests in order
- to legitimize their beliefs and actions.
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- Pat Robertson-oids, Christan Colalition, Crusaders-for-Christ, right to
- lifers, and the rest of the ilk are not religious organizations! they contrive
- "Christian" justification for their political beliefs and then pass the
- wicker basket to the dopes that have taken the bait.
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- These ultra-right-wing organizations cannot function without this fake
- religious aura, because they would be seen for what they really are:
- ignorant backwards rednecks.
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- Sometimes, however, little slips in rhetoric (such as calling someone a
- "bleeding heart liberal" ) reveal some interesting truths. These are left
- as an exercise for the reader.
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- Your friendly neighborhood vegetarian-eco-wacko, back after
- giving up Rush for a year,
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- Angelo Trivelli
- axtst@pitt.edu
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