tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Nov 30 13:51:58 2001

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Re: yem! (was Re: Klingon WOTD: wem (n))

wIch DaHarchugh ngoDqoqvam Dalaj. To be slightly more accurate, even if you 
accept Christian mythology, something happened in the garden of Eden and a 
remarkable number of years later, someone arbitrarily assigned to that behavior 
the English word "sin". Likely the word had meaning in English before receiving 
that assignment. Believe it or not, the English language actually did have 
secular use independent of the church, even before King James' time.

And I hate to break this to you, but not one word in the Bible was originally 
written in English, and every translation has been and will continue to be 
imperfect.

A pet peeve of mine is the way Christianity likes to claim things as its own 
that existed long before Christianity and continue to exist quite independent 
of Christian mythology. Listen to them, and you'd think that charity, honesty, 
kindness and all things noble cannot exist without faith in the Christian God.

'e' luHar qoHna'pu' neH. Some humans are actually motivated by something more 
innately good than fear of punishment by an absolute power, or greed for a 
heavenly reward. Those who act dishonorably sin, whether by a Christian 
definition or not.

charghwI'
 
> >
> >To "sin" is merely to break an established rule of society.  I see the
> >religious meaning of the word as a specialized usage.
> 
> 
> Actually, "sin" was first created in the garden of Eden. The other
> meaning(s) were created later.
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