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FourWinds
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Re: Ritual
Jan 09, 2006, 21:03
Technically you are right, but there is a little bit of sense there. Several other instances exist.

You can be conservative without being a Conservative.

You can be catholic without being Catholic.

However, dictionary-wise you can not have Christian without a capital 'C' in English. Oddly 'unchristian' is correct ;-) The two examples above were derived the other way around though. The Catholics are called that because they are catholic. The Conservatives have very conservative values. Acting in a 'Christian way' comes from Christianity and so holds on to the capital C.

It is very possible to have typical Christian values (which are actually the Jewish 10 commandments) and not be a Christian. For these cases I would argue that there is a case for the introduction of christian with a small c. Then people could be said to be christian in their actions, but be 'accused' of following a particular religion.
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