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$\"Remembering$ <\/p>\n

I really liked yesterday\u2019s Speed Bump cartoon<\/a>, which\u00a0may just be poking fun at the fallibility of human memory, and our penchant to forget names, even when we should remember them.<\/p>\n

But I\u00a0wonder whether it reflects\u00a0an awareness of the tendency of people in our time to forget that, in the Bible, God was said to have a personal name, probably pronounced Yahweh.<\/p>\n

The custom of not pronouncing the name was introduced so as to avoid its misuse (for instance, blurting it out as a swear word when one accidentally hits one\u2019s thumb with a hammer).<\/p>\n

But the result has been for the name itself to be forgotten, which is rather ironic, if you think about it.<\/p>\n

Was any of that Biblical studies stuff in the cartoonist\u2019s mind, I wonder?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"