Re: OT-ish:Conlang Census
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 20, 2004, 18:26 |
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On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 09:57:01AM -0800, paul-bennett wrote:
> Yes they do. I can decide for myself perfectly freely whether any given
> religion that claims to have at or near its center a figure that roughly
> correlates with the Jesus Christ that I believe in is sufficiently similar
> to either mine, or to the archetype, for me to call it "Christian".
Well, we can agree to disagree on this point, I guess. "Christian"
means "of or relating to Jesus Christ". Your particular tenets, what
writings you consider genuine/holy/sacred and what you don't, etc, are
all part of the definition of your religion, but not of the word
"Christian" itself.
> And Sikhs. If you're going to detail the members of the cult of Diaus
> Pa:ter, don't forget to add the Sikhs at (or near) one of the recent ends of
> the lineage. They're the follow-up to Islam, after all.
I would count Sikhs within the umbrella of Islam, actually. :)
-Mark
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