| Maybe it's a Ceremonial Deistic Miracle... |
| July 28, 2002 | News |
| Amish Tech Support takes CNN to task for referring to the Quecreek rescue as a 'miracle'. He muses on the Mirriam-Webster definitions of the term. I think he's missing CNN's cutting-edge use of ceremonial deism. If "Under God" is a meaningless phrase that merely serves to solemnize the Pledge of Allegiance, then a miracle, which manifestly displays divine intervention, is merely an event of note. The first definition in M-W is the same as the second. In cleaving to this definition, CNN follows the current usage of 'miracle' on CNNSI | |
| .:Posted by Michael on July 28, 2002 11:44 PM:. | |
Gee, maybe you're right, Wally... I ought not to look to Television for guidance in reviving the fundamentalist content of my lexicon... ;)
| .:Posted by Laurence Simon ( total) on July 29, 2002 12:00 AM:. |
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