Dictionary.com has sent me down one of the rabbit trails I sometimes wander, like Aragorn chasing Gollum, this morning and has produced this following diatribe, so you may RUE the day you jumped on this blog! Now, with that disclaimer, let's wade into this...'Rue' has the primary meaning of being sorry for something done in the past...as in 'rue the day I got on this blog!' It also turns out that there is a plant called 'rue' that's not only indigenous to the Mediterranean region (hence, the picture at left from Wiki's public domain file), it shows up in Luke 11:42 according to the Wiki article I've been perusing. The plant is a nasty bit of work (rather pretty in the garden, though...much as the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil) that serves as an herbal way to induce abortion; which, now that I think of it, could serve as a sermon illustration for The Fall when man aborted his relationship with God by eating of the fruit of said Tree. Somehow the connection between being sorry for an action and self-induced abortion just naturally seems to pop out to my way of thinking...so sue me! The Pharisees got lambasted by the Lord for tithing mint and rue in Luke 11:42 while they ignored justice and the love of God...obviously, again, a connection with the whole abortion issue if you ask me...and you did, in one respect by tuning into this channel!!
Now, for you French scholars, 'rue' means 'street,' as in the famous 'Murders in the Rue Morgue' by Edgar Allen Poe, supposedly the first detective story written. The woman murdered by the orangutan had her head nearly cut completely off...not unlike the practice of ripping a baby's head off in utero these days in the USofA. Well, perhaps Poe could have cleaned up his story by having an abortion clinic located in the Rue Morgue where rue tea was served to expectant mother-don't-wannabes that they might someday rue the deed they'd done...
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