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Date | 08-11-13 |
Message | With you there, Fishy. Laughed out loud when I first read it: had it down as a delicious morsel of irony. |
Date | 07-11-13 |
Message | Actually didn't take Dermott's post seriously and thought it was a bit of a humorous dig at those who do wait until half time to watch a game (admittedly myself included for reasons other than saving a few quid). Of course I could be wrong and he could be another tight so-and-so?! |
Date | 17-10-13 |
Message | Mr Collis. Whilst I understand that your appeal against the use of the term "for Christ's sake" was delivered in the politest way possible, I feel that there is no place for Christian fundamentalism on here. I fail to see what is remotely blasphemous about the phrase. To blaspheme is to take a god’s name in vain. What the author actually wrote was a form of: “For the sake of Christ.” How is that an insult to your religion? How is that being in any way, shape or form disrespectful? If anything, it is quite the opposite for he is using Christ as the yardstick by which good should be measured. The author has even used a capital C in “Christ”. Where, then, is there any evidence of disrespect? I am, and have been my entire working life, a professional writer: words are my currency. And it so happens that at the moment I am reading a near first edition of Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield. In it the term “for Christ’s sake” is used. When this book was published in 1850 and subsequently became immensely popular through numerous reprints in the mid-Victorian era, British society was governed by High Church Christian doctrine to a far greater degree than today. Yet neither Dickens nor his publishers were asked to withdraw the book for outraging Christian ideals. So, please, Mr Collis, I respectfully ask that confine your comments on here to football and save us from your somewhat narrow-minded and misguided form of religious fundamentalism. Jim Murray |