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Igel

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2. You do know that "Jesus freak" already has a meaning.

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Thu Jun 23, 2016, 11:37 AM

Jun 2016

I guess if it had that meaning it always has to have that meaning. That's what I keep getting told here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_freak

Are you really saying that Jesus-oriented members of the '60s counterculture are trying to keep HRC out of the White House?

(We do that kind of game with foes, and I really don't like double standards. Most recently it was assuming widespread knowledge of how a phrase was used in the 1930s; "Jesus freak" was much more recent, from the 1960s and '70s. I remember it; you'd probably have to be in your '90s to remember a rightist political slogan from the '30s.

(Personally, I can't consider most fundies or evangelicals "Jesus freaks.&quot

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Are the Jesus Freaks this desperate to keep Hillary out of the White House? [View all] Archae Jun 2016 OP

Most of them, yep. whatthehey Jun 2016 #1

You do know that "Jesus freak" already has a meaning. Igel Jun 2016 #2

The 60's "Jesus Freak" movement died out. (Mostly.) Archae Jun 2016 #3