--- damon knight <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I think it is idle to look for a non-pejorative substitute for
> "pagan."
> Such well-meant attempts never work, because the new word soon
> acquires
> the pejorative meaning of the old one. Rather than abandoning
> "pagan,"
> we should use it in non-pejorative ways and hope to influence its use
> by
> others. BTW, I know a few people who refer to themselves as pagans.
Quite so. There is now an official Pagan chaplain at the prison where
I am the Catholic chaplain. Pagans do not regard "pagan" as a
pejorative term. Incidentally it would appear from Acts 11:26 that
"Christian" was to begin with a pejorative term.
Oriens.
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