On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:53:32 -0500 "Bob Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think NATION is a perfectly appropriate change, but revisions can > get troubling. > > At services this Yom Kipur, half the congregation had newly revised > prayer books, > and half had the older copies. The Reform Judaism governing body > decided that the prayers should be gender neutral, so all references > to God as Father, Lord, King, etc. > were expunged. Half the congregation was reading 'O Lord', the other > half reading > 'O sovereign one'. Sometimes you ought to just let the metafors > stand. thanks Bob, for looking and the comments. as far as religious revisionism is concerned, we have an easy way out here: there are enough gods, goddesses and sects to satisfy all possible political and cultural needs. ;-) regards, subash -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
