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[The Associated Press: Churchgoers Worship in Klingon] (fwd)
- From: [email protected] (Elias Israel - SunSelect Engineering)
- Subject: [The Associated Press: Churchgoers Worship in Klingon] (fwd)
- Date: Mon, 30 Aug 93 10:50:21 EDT
Here's an AP story about one day in the recently concluded, first ever
Klingon Language Camp:
>From: [email protected] (The Associated Press)
>Newsgroups: xpress.news.usa.national
>Subject: Churchgoers Worship in Klingon
>Date: 23 Aug 93 18:45:56 GMT
>
> Churchgoers Worship in Klingon
> RED LAKE FALLS, Minn. (AP)
> The reading at St. John's Lutheran Church told the story of the
>Tower of Babel in Klingon, one tongue God didn't include when he confounded
>the languages.
> Klingons are the alien adversaries of those on the "Star Trek"
>starship Enterprise. And they are imaginary, but that didn't stop Glen
>Proechel from planning a Sunday service in "tlhIngan," the Klingon language.
> "Sometimes you have to use fiction to deal with the problems of real
>life," said Proechel, director of a two-week camp in northwestern Minnesota
>where the Klingon language is being taught.
> About 50 people attended Sunday's service. Proechel translated the
>Lord's Prayer and the Apostles' Creed into Klingon.
> The term Holy Spirit presented a problem, because Klingons aren't
>big on holiness, nor spiritual things. So Proechel constructed the term
>"honorable alien" or "Nov Batlh," in Klingon to describe the third person of
>Christendom's Trinity.
> Proechel also translated the hymn "A Mighty Fortress is Our God."
> And there was the story of the Tower of Babel, when God prevented
>Noah's descendants from building a tower to heaven by confusing languages;
>and the story of tongues of fire coming down on the heads of the apostles as
>they spoke in other languages.
> Klingons spoke English in the original "Star Trek" television
>series, but for the movie "Star Trek III" in the mid-1980s, producers
>decided Klingons needed their own language. The result is "as unlike any
>language we know on Earth as possible," said Proechel, a Spanish instructor
>at the University of Minnesota at Crookston.
> The Rev. Roger Raebel, the church's pastor who played organ at the
>Klingon service, was pleased with the event.
> "I think it flowed very solemnly. It was a worship service," he
>said. "As the church, we have to learn to speak the language of the children
>with the Gospel of Christ."
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