Re: Sacred tangent (was Re: just checking...)

On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, Karl wrote:
> **ok, the constitution is sacred to me, not to you.  What now?

Now?  I say you're a heretic.  So there.

**How?

**Where have I maintained religious opinions contrary to those accepted by my
church or rejected doctrines prescribed by the church?

**near as I can tell, I have no displaced God, nor have I elevated anything to
God's equal just because I feel the constitution has great value.

> > The problem here is that religion has been *drained out* of the word
> > -- and that Palin's use of it exists in some weird middle-space
> > between the original religious menaing of the word and the secular
> > meaning of the word.
>
> **Palin's use in context was precisely the secular.

I really, really wish American religiosity were as cut-and-dried as that.
But I've seen a lot of evidence to suggest it isn't.

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