"The Nine Billion Names of God" is a classic sci-fi story by the brilliant novelist Arthur C. Clarke. It features the articulation of... 9 billion different terms for "God." There is an old tradition of this stuff. In the Koran, for example, we find a list of 99 superlative titles ascribed the Absolute Being. "Source of Riches" "Unfailing Guide" "Superior Joy," etc.
Not only do different cultures have various sounds and symbols for "the supreme concept" but they also have a great variety of powers, virtues and perfections. When these qualities are lifted to their superlative form they merge with all other "highest possible terms."
A true heathen is not the person who disagrees with you about your favorite Name for God. The barbarian of faith is whomever demotes the Ulimate Power by imagining that it is merely "one competitor among many." It matters verly whether you say "God" in English, French (Le Dieu) or Arabic (Allah). What does matter is that you comprehend emotionally that this Supreme Noun is the "only one absolute."
God is the Superlative "it" -- a concept that escapes the conceptual mind. The Unspeakable Name.
What's all this got to do with the adorable Heather Brooke?
Like most people she calls out Divine Nouns and Supra-Energetic Signifiers during copulation. Far from taking the Lord's Name in vain, this is one of the ways to actually honour the Supreme Generic Term. Popular translations of the Jewish Bible forbids "vain" usage of the Super Word.
What could be more vain than the pitiful pseudo-piety of theologian or the half-remembered mumbling of the church audience. There is no organic spiritual urgency in them. Do we not naturally cry out the forms of the Excessive Power Symbol during terror, astonishment, shock, pain and ecstasy?
Study Heather's usage of "the Living Word" further in Anal Virgins for God.
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