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From: emma@uw-june (Joe Pfeiffer)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Jesus Christ as an expletive
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Date: Thu, 25-Aug-83 14:23:30 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 25 14:23:30 1983
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It doesn't seem to me that the question was so badly bigoted.  Remember
that Jews, Christians and Moslems all worship the same God.  However,
they differ on the divinity on Christ.  The question of why Jews would
use "Christ" as an expletive strikes me as just as interesting as the
question of why a Christian would swear by "the Prophet".  Except I've
never heard a Christian do that.  Why an atheist would use the name of
a god he doesn't believe in as an expletive doesn't seem any more
curious than the question of why a believer would say "blast".

-Joe P.