From Pontius Pilate to Ignaz Semmelweis: a Brief History of Clean Hands

[PseuTonym]

Too brief?

 

[Bspencer]

a little thin

but i wash my hand of this discussion

 

[PseuTonym]

a little thin

I would describe in as title heavy. The body of the first message contained little of substance. On the other hand, the body of the first message was a quick read.

Recently, somebody posted the following in a thread that I created:

“I find it offensive that I wasted 5 minutes of my life reading this.”
forums.catholic-questions.org/showpost.php?p=13879207&postcount=19

No smilie was provided to indicate a jest or half-jest. Maybe a vocal minority of one person was speaking for a silent majority.

 

[Bspencer]

even more accurately, i would describe it as title only.
the only thing i saw posted was the title pontius pilot… a history
i saw no article link

 

[PseuTonym]

even more accurately, i would describe it as title only.
the only thing i saw posted was the title pontius pilot… a history
i saw no article link

Good point. I was under the impression that “Too brief?” was something that went beyond the title, but it is a meta-commentary about itself, isn’t it?

Maybe I squeezed too much into the title. Maybe we should hold something in reserve, and dole out less content in the title phase.

New title:
A Brief History of Clean Hands

New body:
Pontius Pilate washed his own hands. Eventually, Ignaz Semmelweis arrived and taught that washing the hands can have BOTH a symbolic meaning AND direct, practical significance. So the Bible critic’s question, “Figurative or literal?” can commit the logical fallacy known as “false dilemma.”