Archaic relic that I am, NWW does not use gender neutral phrasing. Or B.C.E. / C.E. in the place of B.C. / A.D.
Changing established practices in order to curry favour with political trends is bad policy; tomorrow's new-niks will bury you with the same principle, ensuring that no text will be easily comprehensible a few generations into the future.
Failure to distinguish between something that disagrees with you because it is an evolved artifact, and something that disagrees with you because it is the result of someone's intent to disagree with you, is seriously second rate. It's delusional paranoia, or it's pathetically cliqueish. Marxist conspiracy rubbish is a dress on a pig lamenting that there are no hammers for the left handed.
But - the rules of the game seem to be changing. Rejoice, the establishment is being challenged (OK, it's being ignored). Or, mourn the coming balkanization of language and culture.
Editorially, I don't answer to anybody here. I have no career ambitions to protect, no asses to kiss. Of course, that goes for a lot of other bloggers out there as well, many of whom will disagree with decisions that I make here. You know what? S'okay.
Myself, I regret more that some feel they can't take advantage of that freedom. Pay any price, bear any burden? What are you, nuts?
Ecce Homo I haven't done a quote from Pope Ratzinger's Introduction to Chistianty in a while and even though I have finished the book there are still one or two passages I want to share, including - perhaps even especially - this one. When I first began to look over what Christianity teaches, to look at the gospel story and to try penetrate why it has been so compelling to so many for so long, this was one of the things that leapt out at me. I was happy to see our Pope confirm it. Expanding on the Apostles Creed where it says "... suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried," Ratzinger writes: The fact that when the perfectly just man appeared he was crucified, delivered up by justice to death, tells us pitilessly who man is: Thou art such, man, that thou canst not bear the just man - that he who simply loves becomes a fool, a scourged criminal, an outcast. Thou art such because, unjust thyself, thou dost always need the injustice of the n...
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