Haggis inspired religious challenge

In the LTTW thread, Haggis posted:

Holy fuck, good stuff.

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to make this not blasphemous.

In other words, have "Holy Fuck" or some reasonable synonym be an acceptable Christian usage, e.g. for naming churches, or something. Along the lines of "Agia Sophia" = holy wisdom, "Sainte Foy/Santa Fe" = holy faith, "Familia Sagrada" = Sacred Family.

Yes, it would almost certainly require the removal of e.g. St.Augustine of Hippo amoung others, and have the Church have a much more open view of sexuality.

It might very well require that the 'Virgin Birth' be considered heretical.


It might very well be ASB
 
The word translated as "virgin" was supposed to be translated as "young woman"; not necessarily a virgin.

No Origen and/or no St. Augustine.

A problem is, such an early POD has major butterflies on the English language, and the word might end up as something else.

A better POD might be linguistic, cultural, or both. I don't know how and why that word became obscene in OTL, but in an ATL, it doesn't become an obscenity. Maybe with no Norman Conquest, Latin-derived words aren't so common, and Anglo-Saxon words don't tend to have the bad/obscene connotations they have in OTL.
 
this would require thorough investigation of etimologies, and historical use of the words fuck and shit

or a ATL in wich a religion involving sex and ritual caprofagy, or some other ritual use of shit, arises

something to do with shivaism for instance or shivaist influence

something like the aghory developing in christianity

there was a sect living in the balkans i belive, or some other part of bisantium, that belived sex was a way to get close to god
they were christian/mahinean something like that

start with a g i think
 
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Keenir

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Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to make this not blasphemous.

In other words, have "Holy Fuck" or some reasonable synonym be an acceptable Christian usage, e.g. for naming churches, or something. Along the lines of "Agia Sophia" = holy wisdom, "Sainte Foy/Santa Fe" = holy faith, "Familia Sagrada" = Sacred Family.

well, Cromwell used phrases lie "by the wounds of Christ"....and "profane" has undergone a 180 in meaning, so why not what you're asking?
 
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