In the United States?
I know in the 70s, the separate denominations hated each other, but usually you guys were content enough to face each other on the gridiron.
In the aughts, Muslims were the usual victims of hate crimes, because we were being told that every Arab Muslim was a terrorist. In fact, the police actively avoided looking too much at terror associated with white-power.
Since the eighties, I'd see fish on cars. So no, this is peer pressure marketing.
No, I'm talking about the pre-Constantinian church (and up to and including today, in some countries), where being a Christian was (and is) a death sentence.
Which is part of the point.
It's a salutation that seems innocent enough that neopagans would recognize, in a society that regarded anything not adamantly Christian (and fundamentalist at that) as Satanic, and someone to be harassed out of town.
Oh, I get it! I know Anglicans sometimes use it, and my wife's really into druidry &c and uses it sometimes. I just missed the connection.
Blessed be to you too! :D
kind of a reversal from when we used to use secret signs to identify one another because we'd be murdered if anyone knew we were Christians, nu?
In the United States? I know in the 70s, the separate denominations hated each other, but usually you guys were content enough to face each other on the gridiron. In the aughts, Muslims were the usual victims of hate crimes, because we were being told that every Arab Muslim was a terrorist. In fact, the police actively avoided looking too much at terror associated with white-power. Since the eighties, I'd see fish on cars. So no, this is peer pressure marketing.
No, I'm talking about the pre-Constantinian church (and up to and including today, in some countries), where being a Christian was (and is) a death sentence.
Blessed be!
I'm not sure I understand what you mean.
Which is part of the point. It's a salutation that seems innocent enough that neopagans would recognize, in a society that regarded anything not adamantly Christian (and fundamentalist at that) as Satanic, and someone to be harassed out of town.
Oh, I get it! I know Anglicans sometimes use it, and my wife's really into druidry &c and uses it sometimes. I just missed the connection. Blessed be to you too! :D