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Re: Country Related: Christmas

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Wednesday, December 23, 1998, 18:00
Padraic Brown wrote:

> Hey, Iowan! I never said "founded on the Xian religion"! That would make > us the "Kingdom" on Earth, would it not? ;^)
Not so. Plenty of countries are so founded: Christianity is part of the state.
> The majority are at least > nominally Xian, and that makes us a Xian country.
The majority of us are at least nominally Democrats, too.
> PC may > well have started out as a joke, I believe at Brown U.
It sure did: it's an Old Left expression of sarcasm at the dogmatic Marxists among us. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)