Friday, April 15, 2005

"Church" is a Verb

...so says a sign outside the Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist (Wabash and Wacker). Mind you, this church and I also have some differences of opinion about the validity of the germ theory of disease (me being a microbiologist and all), but that's neither here nor there.

While "google" is a verb, "friend" is a verb in the facebook-sense, and many other things have been "verbed" lately (up to and including "verb"), "church" is not a verb.

"Church" may serve as a noun, and it may be an adjective (church people, church doctrine), it is not a verb.

I'll begrudgingly let the Church of Christ, Scientist believe that prayer will heal their syphilis, but I won't let them claim "chruch" is a verb. They've crossed the line.

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Apparently, according to dictionary.com, church is a verb. Don't ask me, I'm just as bewildered as you.

Have you considered though that what was meant was some kind of more subtle message. Like, "church is action." Although I may be stretching this a bit.

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