“Because he likes it, it is not sinful --- Jesus had long hair --- and I don't have an issue with it, any more than I would have an issue with a daughter who wanted a pixie cut, think Audrey Hepburn or Natalie Imbruglia (or St Joan of Arc for that matter”
…..And the great conservative popes, Gregory XVI, Venerable Pius IX, and Saint Pius X all had short hair.
If you do a search on Cathinfo, you’ll find a few threads that dealt with this topic.
“Incidentally, "begging the question" --- petitio principii --- is an academic term, used in teaching rhetoric and logic, meaning that one fallaciously assumes the truth of the proposition they are making. Not to be pedantic, but the idea you are looking for is "the question then is..." or "the question that then begs to be asked and answered". ”
You’re not being pedantic at all and I do and did understand the meaning of the term. You are correct if I had used the term in the classic sense, but I’m in the habit of using the term in the sense that you assumed above. Frankly, I don’t see any reason why it shouldn’t be used in that way since that string of words obviously conveyed my intention which you clearly understood.
What’s interesting, the “academic term” is “begging the question” not “begs the question”. What are your thoughts?
I did understand, I just hate to see proper terms, with definite meanings, used incorrectly due to common error. I don't mean you, but I have noticed in the past generation or so, that terminology gets misused --- and again, I don't mean you, don't take this as a personal attack --- by those who are just educated or informed enough to have heard the term, but not educated or informed enough to use it properly.
This seems to have come with the greater participation in what passes for "higher education", more simply put, people who have gone to college but aren't what they used to call "college material", a type of sophomorism that comes with having just enough education to be dangerous. Another such term is "Immaculate Conception". Prior to the past generation or so, nobody but Catholics ever used that term, and they knew precisely what it meant. Nowadays, though, they think it means an ostensibly parthenogenetic (i.e., virginal) conception, such that when a woman falls pregnant, some wag who thinks he is funnier than he actually is, will crack wise and say "well, it wasn't an immaculate conception", meaning "
someone's the daddy, she didn't get that way all by herself". Some also conflate IC with the virginal conception (and birth) of Jesus.
I'm also reminded of the stultifying experience I had when I worked in a print shop just out of college, preparing ad slicks for a convenience store chain, and the supervisor had created ads with what they call the "greengrocer's apostrophe", such as "banana's" for more than one banana, "apple's" for more than one apple, and so on. It was my task to proofread her ads, and when I pointed out that an apostrophe doesn't go there, she reared back on her haunches, got all puffed up, and said "plurality denotes possession", or it may have been "possession denotes plurality", or some other nonsense that she'd evidently misheard in Freshman Comp 101 and thought that made her sound like an educated person. Dumb as a box of rocks.
More to the point, "begging" versus "begs" is simply a difference in tense, gerund versus verb.
So far as I am aware, there is no teaching of the Church that prescribes minimum or maximum hair length for either men or women. It's a matter of free agency and social conventions, the latter of which do not bind in conscience. Anything beyond that is just opinion.
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