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)