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magiqual -> RE: Finally a serious question (9/27/2004 1:21:52 PM)
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MissFem asked:
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now if a fem sub calls her Master names such as "Master...and Lord {insert a name} how can they call their higher power such names? Isnt God called those names? so a human can not be right?
This is specific to Christianity, as practiced in the last 400 years.
As LadyShoshin indicated, using "Lord" for God comes from England, specifically the King James Version bible (written in Elizabethan english.) The Elizabethans were a highly class-conscious and feudal society where the landowners were Lords and Ladies and the people who worked the land were below them socially and economically. It's no surprise that the authors of the KJV bible would appropriate the term "Lord" for a masculine figure in power.
At that time, there was no conflict between referring to a nobleman as Lord and God as The Lord ("Lord of Lords", as the KJV puts it, i.e. above all humanity). Also note that this bible emphashized a personal and intimate relationship with God, using "Thou" instead of "You" ("You" was used to your social superiors or to someone when you didn't know their class relative to you; "Thou" was reserved for those below you and your intimate partner. God, presumably, counts as an intimate partner.) This is opposed to the Jewish approach which wrote the name of God such that it could not even be pronounced, or the Catholic approach that mediated all communications through the priesthood. The creation of the KJV was as much King James' reaction to Catholoicism as anything.
So, historically there's been no conflict. These days, in a presumably egalitarian society, I can imagine a devout Christian having an issue with using "Lord" as a term of honor and respect to another person, but that would be a personal decision. In any case, if someone had an internal conflict, God's title "Lord of Lords" trumps all.
P.S. My own spirituality is pagan, and involves devotional relationships to a small number of deities. One of those relationships looks a whole lot like my D/s relationship (which looks pretty darn Elizabethan-formal to boot!) -- buily on service, surrender, and formality.
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