Re: oh please.

Bruce Geerdes <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.music.dadl.ot
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On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Peter T. Chattaway <
petert-LOVM4QxV+tDq6eQxt3vRmLDks+cytr/[email protected]> wrote:

> Nah, the problem here is that the word's *primary* referent is religion,
> and it is only applied to other things secondarily.
>

The root definition is certainly religious but it's used figuratively all
the time.


> And Palin is, in theory, *primarily* a Christian and only secondarily
> American -- at least, that's what she *should* be, if I am to take her faith
> seriously.
>

Well, if she were a Mormon, given their literal belief in its sacredness,
I'd be siding with you. As it is I'm not sure.

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