Theos-Talk Archives (October 1996 Message tl00651)

In message <199610241952.PAA26613@cliff.cris.com>, "Ann E. Bermingham"
<safron@concentric.net> writes
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>>
>>      Fellowship implies friendship; Brotherhood implies that we came out of
>> the same womb, that we are all responsible for each other, that we are
>> all responsible TO each other.
>>
>>      Bart Lidofsky
>
>Brotherhood is the state or relationship of being brothers - two or more
>males.  A brother can be two males with the same parents or members of a
>monastic order.  In the dictionary,
>brotherhood is also defined as fellowship.(!)  and an association of men,
>such as a fraternity or union, united for common purposes.  Seems to me
>that even the dictionary officially
>associates the word "brother" and "brotherhood" with something that is
>exclusively male.
>
>Seems like the times demand a better word.
>
>-Ann E. Bermingham
>

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