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I read it as rhetorical device somehow. It evokes something of careless contempt for artificial or overbearing crude faith.
by Helianthus 15y ago
I read it as rhetorical device somehow. It evokes something of careless contempt for artificial or overbearing crude faith.
- chc 15y agoExcept Christians were the first ones to replace Christ's name with X, the first letter in the Greek Χριστός.
- Helianthus 15y agoyeah sure, but if he had said Χριστός that'd be obscure formal respect.
- chc 15y agoI don't understand the point you're trying to make here. My point was that Χριστός has been abbreviated to "X" for thousands of years without any implication of disrespect. I don't see how the fact that writing out the Greek word implies formal respect is supposed to disagree with me.
- Helianthus 15y agoIn that case, I don't understand the point you were trying to make by saying "Except Christians were the first ones to replace Christ's name with X, the first letter in the Greek Χριστός." It sounded like you were trying to disagree with my assertion that Xtian had a certain rhetorical intent, but you did it by bringing in a completely different rhetorical construct. I do know the origins of the X abbreviation.