re: #760 Obdicut

Why, though? Obivously, content is the most important part of the speech, and what Beck is criticized for, and what MLK is celebrated for, is the content of their message, not the format of them.

Language and rhetoric are actually very different things, and you’re very wrongly conflating them. He used religious language, yes. So does Pat Robertson. So does the Dali Llama. If your point is only “Religious language is religoius language”, um, yeah.

I agree. That’s why content matters. I’m not sure how you think you can determine intent, of course.

I think that you wrongly think that people are calling liturgical language Beckian, or that people have the impression that only those on the Religious right use religious language. I’m not sure where you got the idea from, but it’s rather patently untrue.

What’s patently untrue?