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Simon Robert wrote:
It comes from Godspell - sort of good period or time or possibly collection of ideas. The word God as good and good as god have been interchangeable - well since christian times in this country so it cant really be earlier than 4C.On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 18:52 +0000, Gordon Henderson wrote:On Wed, 3 Feb 2010, Simon Robert wrote:As a confirmed atheist myself, I have no issues with the word "gospel", although it has many meanings, I don't see any real religious overtones using the way we're using it here.And can we quit using religious language when discussing this. If someone described linux as a gospel to me I would never give it another thought...http://www.thefreedictionary.com/gospelIf you're on about the writings of people going on about the bloke who allegedly got nailed to a tree ~2000 years ago, it's usually capitalised.You'll be winging about holy wars (cf. vi vs. emacs) next ;-) GordonOK I know the literal translation is "Good News", but both capitalised
However there is the gospel of St Barnabus which is Muslim so...Goodbye comes from god be with you but I've yet to be punched by an atheist for saying it.
canonical in music sort of means circular or repeating/developing, in possibly the direct opposite in the meaning of say the cannon of Bachs works (sorry !)or any other literary cannon. Being autistic (some would say male) I much prefer the ones that go BANG! Which if you look (listen) back to early cannons sort of went sssSSSSWHoomph like a fast musical cannon... but they didnt have tape recorders then so...and lowercased the word has strong religious connotations. In biblical studies the term Gospel usually refers to the written books of the canonical bible, while gospel refers to non canonical (hmm, "canonical".
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