Lawry de Bivort wrote: > Brad, can you tie the linguistic origins of 'propaganda' more closely to > the Catholic church?
Quoting from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda : <<In late Latin, propaganda meant "things to be propagated". In 1622, shortly after the start of the Thirty Years' War, Pope Gregory XV founded the Congregatio de Propaganda Fide ("Congregation for Propagating the Faith"), a committee of Cardinals with the duty of overseeing the propagation of Christianity by missionaries sent to non-Catholic countries. Therefore, the term itself originates with this Roman Catholic Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith (sacra congregatio christiano nomini propagando or, briefly, propaganda fide), the department of the pontifical administration charged with the spread of Catholicism and with the regulation of ecclesiastical affairs in non-Catholic countries (mission territory). The actual Latin stem propagand- conveys a sense of "that which ought to be spread". Originally the term was not intended to refer to misleading information. The modern political sense dates from World War I, and was not originally pejorative.>> > Re.: McDonalds: don't worry about the health aspects of McDonalds. Harry has > assured us that after one of their customers has developed cancer or > diabetes or whatever, he will simply not go back and McDs will go out of > business. See, the free market DOES work. Even the McD CEO died of colorectal cancer, just 2 weeks after he replaced his predecessor who had died of a sudden heart attack. Well, at least McD CEOs walk their talk and actually eat at McD. And generations of the "Marlboro man" died of lung/throat cancer. Sort of "truth in advertising", at least IRL. Chris _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
