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WISHING YOU A POLITICALLY CORRECT CHRISTMAS GREETING...

Best wishes to you for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, politically correct, low stress, non-addictive, gender neutral, celebration of the summer holidays....

Family First has produced a wonderful piece of PC nonsense, just in time for Christmas (whoops! did I use that word?).

Check out the rest of the message here

I'm a Christian....and I'm a Christ follower

By now this series of videos (six or seven in all, I think) are becoming widely known, but just in case you're one of the people who still hasn't caught up with them, check them out. They parody a series of ads that compared Macs and PCs. (For those who can't get enough of them, you can find more variations on the theme on You Tube.)

The original series shows two guys, one of them a laid-back Christ follower, and the other a rather up-tight Christian with all the latest Christian gear. There's a little animosity between them - more from the Christian - but the playing of the characters is so smooth and gentle that you can only laugh. While many viewers may side with the Christ follower, it's probable that the Christian has plenty of supporters too!

The versions available for viewing on the FaithVisuals site (in the link at the beginning of this post) are a bit small. You Tube's versions are larger, but they're fairly fuzzy when they're enlarged to full screen.

G-d?

I'm trying to avoid stepping completely out of the boundaries of this blog, but something in several comments another blog jolted me a little, though it's by no means the first time I'd seen it.
This is the use of 'G-d'. For starters, I've no idea how you'd pronounce this, unless you do something akin to a glottal stop in the middle of the normal word.
Thus we have sentences (from several different commenters) like:
G-d certainly has proven his patience with us...all 2000+ years of it.
The only identifier is a sticker on the inside of my car that states "G-d is not a Republican. Or a Democrat." (Sojourners) The only think I think about on a regular basis is "Am I on G-D'S side?" not "Is G-d on MY side?"
As Phyllis Tickle put it so beautifully, "A nation is in the business of doing Caesar's work, not G-d's...

When I queried this usage, by saying, "Are we suddenly afraid to use the word God, or isn't it allowed in these comments? "I received this response:

I find this interesting...apparently the editors of Ur are curious too if they allowed this question to be posted.
No, I use it because I talked to Jews who found my usage of "G o d" to be...hmm, disrespectful to both the deity and to them. The alternate address is G-d, so I have grown use to using the address of G-d to show both my respect for both parties.

Is it me, or this is some kind of Christian PCism gone mad? I can vaguely understand its usage if its offending Jews, but why use it amongst Christians?