You don't suppose...?

I read something odd:

Obama at Georgetown: The mystery of the missing sign

When President Obama gave his economics speech at Georgetown University on Tuesday, several folks noticed something was missing.

That "something" was an ancient monogram -- the letters IHS -- that symbolizes the name of Jesus. It was missing from a wooden archway above the dais in Gaston Hall where the president delivered his 45-minute speech....

...Julie Bataille from the university's press office e-mailed me that the White House had asked that all university signage and symbols behind the stage in Gaston Hall be covered....

I guess the man must have had some kind of reason for wanting religious symbols to be covered up in his presence... I mean it's not as if he was a...

Nah. Impossible.


Posted by Caveman at 4/16/2009 2:39 PM
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  • 4/16/2009 5:04 PM dialee wrote:
    How does the IHS symbolize the name of Jesus?
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    1. 4/16/2009 6:10 PM Caveman wrote:
      It is supposed to be an English representation of the Greek letters that represent the name of Jesus. Or so I am told. I am not Catholic, and I can barely stumble along in my own mother tongue at the best of times.

      This is from Wikipedia. I have no way of proving it one way or the other:

      In the Latin-speaking Christianity of medieval Western Europe (and so among Catholics and many Protestants today), the most common Christogram is "IHS" or "IHC", derived from the first three letters of the Greek name of Jesus, iota-eta-sigma , or ΙΗΣ. Here, the Greek letter eta was transliterated as the letter H in the Latin-speaking West (Greek eta and Latin-alphabet H had the same visual appearance and shared a common historical origin), while the Greek letter sigma was either transliterated as the Latin letter C (due to the visually similar form of the lunate sigma), or as Latin S (since these letters of the two alphabets wrote the same sound). Because the Latin-alphabet letters I and J were not systematically distinguished until the 17th century, "JHS" and "JHC" are equivalent to "IHS" and "IHC".

       

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  • 4/16/2009 7:32 PM dialee wrote:
    Okay! This seems harmless enough. Why should this president who claims to be a Christian want to speak at a noted Catholic university, (1st of 2) I might add, second speech being commencement at Notre Dame, and then request all the symbols of the university be taken down?

    He seems to be "gunning" for the Catholics.
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    1. 4/16/2009 8:05 PM Caveman wrote:
      I don't know if he is necessarily gunning for Catholics. to be fair, I don't get the impression that The Chosen One thinks too much of any religion. With the possible exception of Islam. I am not saying that he is a Muslim. But he behaves more respectfully toward Muslims than he does toward Christians or Jews. On the other hand, I have seen no evidence that his behavior is guided by any overriding set of moral principles from any source at all, be it Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Wiccan, or whatever. I just don't think the man has any faith in any higher power. At least, he doesn't act like it from what I have witnessed.


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      1. 4/16/2009 8:47 PM dialee wrote:
        Oh but I think he or his administration is. What is that quote, all that is takes for evil to thrive is for good men to do nothing? If he is actively requesting symbols of the school to be taken down, he is in effect asking the school to deny, at least while he's there, what they are. By not providing any passive repudiation, we silently stand aside and do nothing.
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