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Old 02-01-2010, 08:07   #7
Richard
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I don't see any issues with this...unless it becomes the mission of yet another group of 'true believers' to seek to deny the benign spiritual beliefs of others.

I've spent time living amongst what we officially referred to as 'animists' - 'indigenous' cultures of some of the nicest, gentlest, finest people I've ever known - who believed everything had a spirit - much in alignment with the concept of the 'Laws of Nature and of Nature's God' referred to by our Founding Fathers in the Declaration of Independence.

Being of Scot's ancestry, I am quite familiar with the concepts of paganism and the history of its near demise under the onslaught of Christianity - and of the 20th Century's rise of the neo-paganist Wicca. You should visit the Rosslyn Chapel (made famous in The DaVinci Code) to see the dual influence of the two as they crossed paths in Scotland in the 12th-15th Centuries.

Personally, I tend to worship the ground upon which my wife walks - does that make me a danger to society, too?

And so it goes...

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