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To: SmithL

The PC police never blinked an eye that one of our days (Thursday) is named after the god Thor.

And those who get their panties in a wad over "In God We Trust" appearing on currency (as has been the case LONG before the 1950s, which is when many atheists say it began), you could find the god Mercury on those coins.

So the only God that the Left has raised a stink over has repeatedly been the Christian God.


7 posted on 03/11/2007 10:13:43 AM PDT by weegee (Carbon credits are nothing but the Global Warming movement's way of selling indugences.)
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To: weegee
Wednesday is named after the Norse God Woden (also known as Odin).

http://www.crowl.org/Lawrence/time/days.html
15 posted on 03/11/2007 10:27:21 AM PDT by Chgogal (Vote Al Qaeda. Vote Democrat.)
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To: weegee
you could find the god Mercury on those coins

I waited and waited for the atheists to get upset about the womyn's goddess Susan B. Anthony being on a coin but they kept mum about it. Probably because the coin was such a bust - oops, bad pun.

16 posted on 03/11/2007 10:27:40 AM PDT by relictele
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To: weegee

Briefly assuming my picky, picky, rumdummy personna, that's not Mercury on the mercury dime. It's some other winged mythical person whose name I can't immediately recall.


25 posted on 03/11/2007 10:41:38 AM PDT by tickmeister (tickmeister)
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To: weegee

...and Saturday is named for the Roman god Saturn.


29 posted on 03/11/2007 10:44:45 AM PDT by 6SJ7
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To: weegee

wednesday was named after woden - another god


43 posted on 03/11/2007 11:47:35 AM PDT by tired1
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To: weegee
The PC police never blinked an eye that one of our days (Thursday) is named after the god Thor.

Thor's Day is not alone. we're surrounded by them.

Sun's day ... BUT, the Anglo-Saxon goddess Sunne is implicit in the name of the Sun itself.

Moon's Day

Tuesday was named after the Norse god Tyr [in Old English, Tiw, Tew or Tiu].

The Romans named this day after their war-god Mars: dies Martis.

Spanish: martes.

Wednesday came from Woden's Day. Woden, the top Teutonic god, may have been compared to Mercury.

The Spanish name for Wednesday is miércoles.

It took a few twists & turns to arrive at the odd spelling.

Thor's day

Thursday, Thor's day: The Romans named this day dies Jovis ("Jove's Day"), after Jove or Jupiter, their most important god.

Spanish: jueves.

Friday is the day in honor of the Norse goddess Frigg.

In Old High German this day was called frigedag. [Does this indicate she was frigid? :)]

To the Romans this day was sacred to the goddess Venus, and was known as dies veneris.

Spanish: viernes.

Saturn's Day.

Anglo-Saxon: sater daeg.

Spanish: sábádo.

Then come the months: Janus, the two faced Roman god of doors etc

Februus the Etruscan death god

March, for Mars

April for Venus

May for Maia Maiestas, a Roman goddess.

June for Juno.

The others are god-free names.

57 posted on 03/11/2007 1:34:54 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
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