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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Meanings of Words
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Date: Mon, 5-Nov-84 10:17:30 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  5 10:17:30 1984
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Keywords: christocentric

> *Christianoid n., One who believes that anybody who doesn't accept Jesus
> 	Christ as his saviour is doomed to eternal damnation, and further
> 	believes that the god who does all this damning is just and merciful.
> 
> Yes folks, I'm attempting to invent a new word here.  The words "laser",
> "astronaut", and "sexism"  were invented within my own lifetime.  If enough
> people adopt my word, it, too,  can become part of the language.  If, in 10
> or 20 years, I find "Christianoid" in a dictionary, I will look back on this
> day with pride.  [DAVID CANZI]

There's a word I had thought that I made up, but it turns out it's already in
the dictionary:  christocentric.  Although the meaning of the word does not
convey the intended meaning (it seems to be meant to be used as "Christianity
is a Christocentric religion because it is centered around Christ"), the word
itself is more descriptive of the type of *-ocentric thinking so prominent in
such minds (included ethnocentrism and the dreaded anthropocentrism).
-- 
Now I've lost my train of thought. I'll have to catch the bus of thought.
			Rich Rosen    pyuxd!rlr