[HopeFrances]

Hello,
I am new to this site, but I have had something bothering me, and I am trying to find some answers...

We had a Chathlic Gentlemen to visit us the other day, and my niece goes with him and he called her his... he said that is what the Catholics believed and his children are Bastards... well his children know who there father is, so why be called Bastards...

I am Christian and I have never heard of this... and it has been on my mind ever since... anyone have any answers to this...

Thanks:rolleyes::rolleyes::confused:

[HopeFrances]

Sorry, misspelled Chatholic, and also he said he called my niece his? Any one have and ideas on this..
Thanks

[Fr_Chuck]

Nothing to do with catholic or any religion, it is merely from past words used for the last 800 years. In fact it is a very common term and was a popular word to use for years, The term was basically a term for children of a unmarried parents.

But while it was just a way to describe a person, but in our politically correct world, it is not used as often. And is not used that much any longer.

Again it has nothing to do with his religion, merely his perhaps education level in the use of some words.



Bastard

9 dictionary results for: bastard
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This bas·tard /ˈbæstərd/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[bas-terd] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation –noun 1.a person born of unmarried parents; an illegitimate child. 2.Slang. a.a vicious, despicable, or thoroughly disliked person: Some bastard slashed the tires on my car. b.a person, esp. a man: The poor bastard broke his leg. 3.something irregular, inferior, spurious, or unusual. 4.bastard culverin. –adjective 5.illegitimate in birth. 6.spurious; not genuine; false: The architecture was bastard Gothic. 7.of abnormal or irregular shape or size; of unusual make or proportions: bastard quartz; bastard mahogany. 8.having the appearance of; resembling in some degree: a bastard Michelangelo; bastard emeralds. 9.Printing. (of a character) not of the font in which it is used or found.
[Origin: 1250–1300; ME < AF bastard, ML bastardus (from 11th century), perh. < Gmc (Ingvaeonic) *bāst-, presumed var. of *bōst- marriage + OF -ard -ard, taken as signifying the offspring of a polygynous marriage to a woman of lower status, a pagan tradition not sanctioned by the church; cf. OFris bost marriage < Gmc *bandstu-, a n. deriv. of IE *bhendh- bind; the traditional explanation of bastard as deriv. of fils de bast “child of a packsaddle” is doubtful on chronological and geographical grounds]

[Choux]

I'm not following your question exactly... but if you are referring to the children born of a woman without a husband... they were called bastards when I was a kid. By all Christian religions, not just Catholics.

[N0help4u]

Yes bastard dictionary definition means kids born out of wedlock -unmarried parents.

[Fr_Chuck]

Closed, old thread, most likely one to bash a religious faith