Funda and Harrison: Harrison Owen <hho...@comcast.net> wrote: Funda -- since the organizations involved are Christian, I would guess that something about the Love of Christ might show up -- but I think you could substitute the Love of Allah and arrive at the same place. Actually I think the love humanity would do just as well.
This is very interesting. American's are so imersed in the American culture (and that is quite normal I must say) that they: (1) don't even see any more the culture that is arround them; (2) don't even undrestood that things they take for granted can be offensive to other people(s).. In this case, Funda was uppset with the reference to Christ. Myself being from "old Europe" have been educated in a culture where religion MUST be separated from the State, from Science and from all intelectual discussions - except theological ones. This is not only because I am an atheist; my catholic education told me to "never use the name of God in vain", and to not use Him to support my ambitions, opinions or prejudices. So, Harrison, it is not that "Actually I think the love for humanity would do just as well". It is that "the love for humanity should be the only thing to refer" on that matter. Artur __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
