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From: dmcanzi@watdcsu.UUCP (David Canzi)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Meanings of Words
Message-ID: <623@watdcsu.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 8-Nov-84 02:28:13 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov  8 02:28:13 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 9-Nov-84 06:45:58 EST
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Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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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
> 
The word "christocentric" just doesn't have the meaning I'm trying to convey,
though the people I'm describing as "christianoid" are most definitely
christocentric.  Either I have to content myself with using some windy phrase
or make up a wholly new word...
 
	David Canzi
"f u cn rd ths, itn tyg h myxbl cd."