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To: ebb tide

This is super-sensitive bordering on snowflakism. Common phrases evolve from past epochs, and their current meaning is no reflection on any living person.

What next? “Patience of Job” denigrates labor? “Good Samaritan” slanders jews? Or non-Jews? A “good thief” insults the incarcerated? “Millstone” references are patronizing to children?

There must be hundreds of such references. If something is really racist and oppressive, change it, but this is a mountain out of a molehill.


10 posted on 05/16/2019 6:38:27 PM PDT by Marchmain (BIDEN: the hands-on candidate.)
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To: Marchmain
Common phrases evolve from past epochs, and their current meaning is no reflection on any living person.

It is a reflection when Bergoglio uses them: He used the "Great Accuser" in his feeble attempt to brush off Archbishop Vigano's scathing indictment.

"Sourpuus", ""Pickled pepper-faced Christian!", "Creed-reciting, parrot Christian!", "rosary counter", "Self-absorbed, Promethean neo-Pelagian!", "A simple numerary in this sect!" are all reflections on living persons: traditional Catholics.

11 posted on 05/16/2019 7:41:20 PM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome)
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