# Very simple grammar question

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 6, 2010, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-simple-grammar-question/535180 "2010-04-06T19:06:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Notassmartasithought](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c0e974/32.png) [@Notassmartasithought](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Notassmartasithought)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2010, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-simple-grammar-question/535180/44 "2010-04-07T07:48:12Z")

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Oh, and by the way, if you say your father is a Christian, that’s using the word as a noun, not an adjective. I’ve got no problem with that. It’s the use of the word as an adjective that I’m making a case against. If you say “I have a Christian father,” I might be at a loss. Roman Catholic? Evangelical? Methodist?

And my larger case is that language can determine how carefully one thinks about things, and this business about the word “Christianity” is an example.

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