Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!floyd!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!tekmdp!dadla!dadla-b!hutch From: hutch@dadla-b.UUCP Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: Holy Land Message-ID: <478@dadla-b.UUCP> Date: Wed, 29-Jun-83 15:01:02 EDT Article-I.D.: dadla-b.478 Posted: Wed Jun 29 15:01:02 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 1-Jul-83 07:03:50 EDT References: floyd.1694 Lines: 12 Andy - A possible reply to why people (not just Christians) call Israel the Holy Land . . . Israel IS a Holy Land to at least three of the world's major religions. And it did not really exist as a country until this century. I imagine that what we have is the same kind of linguistic habit that the sexist-language conflagration has been about. Hutch