RE: Teach children about Jesus at a young age,
March 13, 2016 at 6:20 pm
(This post was last modified: March 13, 2016 at 6:20 pm by Cyberman.)
(March 13, 2016 at 5:23 pm)Huggy74 Wrote:(March 13, 2016 at 4:58 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Wait wait wait... he said that? He seriously used the word "condescending" in the context of "God" coming down to Earth?Did you learn nothing from Pandæmonium?
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/condescending?s=t
Quote:condescend
3. to put aside one's dignity or superiority voluntarily and assume equality with one regarded as inferior:
That emboldened part is the active ingredient to the meaning. Viz:
Quote:show that one feels superior; be patronizing.
"take care not to condescend to your reader"
do something in such a way as to emphasize that one clearly regards it as below one's dignity or level of importance.
"he condescended to see me at my hotel"
While it does carry the meaning of descent, it's not a physical change of elevation but a lowering of one's sense of superiority.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
