adjective "Christian"

[Wilson Gray]

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>I think the "meaning" is the same; it's just being used by a #^!%@*&
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>Shifts in meaning encouraged by the usage of  #^!%@*&s have not been
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>JL
>David Bergdahl <einstein at FROGNET.NET> wrote:
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>Like a cross??
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>On a related topic: it seems that "Christian" as a label among some
>Pentecostals has a meaning something like "observant" among Orthodox
>Jews--some so-called Christians are not observant enough in their eyes and
>don't merit the label. So it can be confusing when someone is derided as
>"not a Christian" when you know the person is a church-going Methodist!

Not if you were schooled by the Jesuits during the 'Fifties. The
world was divided into two kinds of people, "Christians" and
"non-Catholics." And, as I've noted elsewhere, I used to be a
church-going Methodist myself, by coincidence.

-Wilson Gray

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