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To: MadCharity

Homo"phobia" is such a poor term.

Most people who fit in that category, like me, aren't "afraid" of homos - we just detest them.

Anybody out there know the Ancient Greek Stem word for "hate"?


15 posted on 01/23/2006 1:56:01 PM PST by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis, Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts, and guns made America great.)
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To: ZULU

`miseo': Gr. to hate, pursue with hatred, detest

I think phobia means 'running away from.
Hey, I saw Zacahary and if he sidled up to me, I'd go the other way. That kid is a Lou Reed song.


44 posted on 01/23/2006 2:03:25 PM PST by tumblindice
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To: ZULU
Anybody out there know the Ancient Greek Stem word for "hate"?

Ummm... I forget... is it "gore" ...

... or is it "dean"?

 

 

104 posted on 01/23/2006 2:44:16 PM PST by StoneGiant (Power without morality is disaster. Morality without power is useless.)
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To: ZULU

Homophobia (IMO) is just another way the liberals go about explaining everything. If you don't like something then you must be racist, or you must fear them, etc. Nevermind the problem behind what you don't like...

I have no problem with gay people. It's the shoving their "agenda" in my face and making it OK to be gay, that I have a HUGH problem with.

And I am NOT afraid of "gay" people. As long as they aren't trying to convince me that they are "normal" and that being gay is acceptable behavior, I'm cool. Because I am strongly against homosexuality. It is wrong in my book. And my book is the Bible.


108 posted on 01/23/2006 2:51:33 PM PST by MadCharity (If only the week could go by as fast as the hour of 24 does!!!)
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To: ZULU

Don't know the Greek word for `hate', but I do know that the Greek root `homos' means `the same'. `Homophobia' is a bastard child. After all, it means `fear of homos', half slang itself.

If the word `homophobia' were correctly interpreted, then it would mean `fear of those who are the same as oneself'.

Gee - if I'm a `homophobe', does that mean I have an irrational fear of other straight heterosexual conservatives who own guns?


120 posted on 01/23/2006 3:28:46 PM PST by elcid1970
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