From: Allen Haaheim (ah@uvic.ca)
Date: Wed May 25 2005 - 12:40:08 CDT
I invite Alexander Kh, without the anti-Christian bias bred into us by modern
culture, to name a few destroyed identities, to each of which we can reply
with an opposite identity building, liberating or other influence. Or shall we
talk about early medieval Chinese Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism? We could
go on a long time and not make much progress in our anti-Christain
crusade--even dismantle it. In fact, cultivating peace and respect for one
another now would be much more productive.
--Allen
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From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On Behalf
Of John Hudson
Sent: May 24, 2005 11:08 PM
To: unicode@unicode.org
Subject: Off-topic (Re: All hail Cyril and Methodius!)
Alexander Kh. wrote:
> In defence of "illiterate" Slavs, let me remind you that Christianity for
> centuries has been destroying identity of many nations. Look for example
> the movie Braveheart: in it there is a mention that bagpipes were outlawed
> in Scotland of the time of William Wallace.
Hollywood films really are not a good basis for making arguments about
history. That said,
Braveheart is accurate in portraying Wallace and his fellow Scots as
Christians. The
banning of bagpipes by the English had nothing to do with religion. Indeed,
one of the
points that the (devout Catholic) director and star of the film makes is that
the English
king is a godless man driven only by power and greed, while Wallace -- and the
rightful
Scottish king, Robert the Bruce -- are godfearing men.
John Hudson
-- Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC tiro@tiro.com Currently reading: Truth and tolerance, by Benedict XVI, Cardinal Ratzinger as was A century of philosophy, by Hans Georg Gadamer
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