look, i don't really care one way or the other about this HG thing, but I would _really_ like to know why it's so important. my memory, which is vague--i age--is that the HG was kind of a joke, no one took it seriouslyl. my mother and father's parents were devout bible thumpers, so much so that they pushed my folks away from the bible thumping, and they sent us to more respectable methodist churches where it was talk of love, and jesus, and all the different colored peoples of the world. such anti-racism i learned in Sunday school. anyway, this HG thing, it really seems like most people thought it was a joke.
alas, recently, on another list, it became clear that someone from a catholic background, and someone with theological (protestant) training, took this HG thing really seriously re: the Nicene Creed that it freaked me out. To her (and him) there are a few things that make a christian a christian and one of themost important was acceptance of the Nicene Creed and acceptance of the HG.
insight?
kelley
"We live under the Confederacy. We're a podunk bunch of swaggering pious hicks."
--Bruce Sterling