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Any ideas on how factual and fair the Opus Dei quote below is?
Just got this from A Word A Day. A.W.A.D is generally neutral on religious matters, but the embedded quote appeared quite uncharitable, if not outright false, on the part of the Skeptical Inquirer, and uncharitable in its inclusion by A.W.A.D.:
cilice (SIL-is) noun
1. An undergarment of haircloth, worm [SIC] by monks in penance.
2. Haircloth.
[From Old English cilic, from Latin cilicium, from Greek kilikion, from
kilikios (Cilician). This cloth was originally made of Cilician goats’*
hair. Cilicia was an ancient region in southeast Asia Minor which later
became part of the Roman Empire. It’s now part of southern Turkey.]
No more hairy undergarments now – modern cilices are usually made of
wires and studded with spikes.
Another word that came from the same region is solecism (an error).
It’s derived from the name of Soloi, a city in Cilicia.
"Wearing the cilice, (Louise) Heil said, helps people learn to care less
about their own comfort and more about helping other people."
David Holley; Founder of Opus Dei Becomes Newest Saint; The Los Angeles
Times; Oct 7, 2002.
"He (Silas) wears a cilice, a thong that cuts flesh, around his thigh,
and he flagellates himself bloody as part of a self-purification cult
in accordance to Opus Dei guidelines." Joseph P Szimhart; Fact,
Fiction, and Strained Symbolism; Skeptical Inquirer (Amherst, New
York); May 2004.
Just got this from A Word A Day. A.W.A.D is generally neutral on religious matters, but the embedded quote appeared quite uncharitable, if not outright false, on the part of the Skeptical Inquirer, and uncharitable in its inclusion by A.W.A.D.:
cilice (SIL-is) noun
1. An undergarment of haircloth, worm [SIC] by monks in penance.
2. Haircloth.
[From Old English cilic, from Latin cilicium, from Greek kilikion, from
kilikios (Cilician). This cloth was originally made of Cilician goats’*
hair. Cilicia was an ancient region in southeast Asia Minor which later
became part of the Roman Empire. It’s now part of southern Turkey.]
No more hairy undergarments now – modern cilices are usually made of
wires and studded with spikes.
Another word that came from the same region is solecism (an error).
It’s derived from the name of Soloi, a city in Cilicia.
"Wearing the cilice, (Louise) Heil said, helps people learn to care less
about their own comfort and more about helping other people."
David Holley; Founder of Opus Dei Becomes Newest Saint; The Los Angeles
Times; Oct 7, 2002.
"He (Silas) wears a cilice, a thong that cuts flesh, around his thigh,
and he flagellates himself bloody as part of a self-purification cult
in accordance to Opus Dei guidelines." Joseph P Szimhart; Fact,
Fiction, and Strained Symbolism; Skeptical Inquirer (Amherst, New
York); May 2004.
