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what would he do if there was a national emergency on a Saturday
From my outsider's perspective, I'd rather have an Orthodox Jew exercising a religious observance on a Saturday than a born-again Christian using Biblical prophecy to govern foreign policy every day of the week. But what do I know, godless heathen that I am? ;)
I can't recall the term godless heathen bandied about in a non-ironic way, but I do hear the term heathen quite often used to describe all manner of unsavory sorts. A former coworker of mine at the WAU used to call two other coworkers that she disliked The Heathens. And my TA will sometimes say our students behave like heathens. She's not talking about when one asked me to bring him a bouquet of black-eyed Susans from my garden or when they share their food and money with others who have none. ;) I won't say the use of that term in that way is even hurtful to me, but it is annoying, mostly because it comes from a place of total ignorance about what the term heathen actually means.
"the church of Our Lady of That's None Of Your Fucking Business"
Same here. Aside from Bobby and me, I know one other non-Christian at the school where I teach. I wonder which would scare some of my more devout coworkers more, the agnostic part or the druid part? And probably most have no notion what either part actually means ...
what would he do if there was a national emergency on a Saturday
From my outsider's perspective, I'd rather have an Orthodox Jew exercising a religious observance on a Saturday than a born-again Christian using Biblical prophecy to govern foreign policy every day of the week. But what do I know, godless heathen that I am? ;)
I can't recall the term godless heathen bandied about in a non-ironic way, but I do hear the term heathen quite often used to describe all manner of unsavory sorts. A former coworker of mine at the WAU used to call two other coworkers that she disliked The Heathens. And my TA will sometimes say our students behave like heathens. She's not talking about when one asked me to bring him a bouquet of black-eyed Susans from my garden or when they share their food and money with others who have none. ;) I won't say the use of that term in that way is even hurtful to me, but it is annoying, mostly because it comes from a place of total ignorance about what the term heathen actually means.
"the church of Our Lady of That's None Of Your Fucking Business"
Same here. Aside from Bobby and me, I know one other non-Christian at the school where I teach. I wonder which would scare some of my more devout coworkers more, the agnostic part or the druid part? And probably most have no notion what either part actually means ...
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