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Subject: Re: The Golden Rule

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Celebryn

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Date Posted: 01:59:28 12/24/04 Fri
In reply to: Wendy 's message, "Re: The Golden Rule" on 11:52:39 12/23/04 Thu

>Phew! You pagans or non-christians sure have a lot to
>say for people who go about their religious lives
>quietly.

:0 We are not the ones who plaster our selves on TV and call round door to door trying to convert the masses. I believe Silverfox meant to these extremes.

(Not saying that everyone does)

If someone truley should be born/Christain, they shouldnt need converting, they should already be Christain when you first meet them.

One song that comes to mind that I have heard on teh radio alot this week although I cant remember who sings it or what its called goes something like:

" This is the city that raised me,
With the religion they gave me,
But now I am old enough to know,
my own mind."

I dont know the context the singer meant it, but how I interrpreted (sp) it is how I feel, I was giving/forced christainity as a religion on birth and all through school, but I didnt know any different, I was raised to believe that Christainity was the only thing, and other religion, was from some far away world that had nothing to do with us (i didnt have the slightest interest in religion anyway) but as I have grown I have become able to think for myself.

And I am in a way angered that they forced this on me from birth and assumed that I believe/followed.

Most pagan parents I know havent forced paganism onto the their children, they let them make up there own mind. Not brainwash their children sput out what there parents believe, do these children truely believe what they are saying, or is it only what they are programmed from birth to believe.

The child who lives being beaten by their parents knows no different, for them that is a normal life.

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