Is Reformed theology spicy?
Given that one of the Romanian words for ‘spicy’ is ‘diabolic’ – as I found with the diabolical pasta I ate on my last night there;
Given that the main source of such spicy food is the sizable Hungarian (Magyar) population in Transylvania;
Given that the religion of these Magyars is Reformed (Calvinist) Christianity;
One can only conclude that Reformed theology is indeed diabolically spicy.
28 October, 2011 at 8:12 am
I have to correct you here, but the Romanian word for “spicy” (iute; piperat) isn’t the same as for “diabolical” (dracesc; diabolic; diavolesc). So, given the faulty premises…
Anyways, very good and fun blog.
28 October, 2011 at 5:18 pm
It all came from a comment during a meal in Baia Mare, where I ordered ‘diabolical pasta’ and one of my companions laughed and said it meant ‘spicy pasta’. I checked and found the connection a little looser than that, but hey, Heidegger was heavily into ‘creative’ etymologies …
29 October, 2011 at 5:32 am
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