Re: It is a Shame (was Pagan Scouts)

"Searles O'Dubhain" <odubhain@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Midwinter" <midwinter_m@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> mark <whitroth@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> Oddly enough, there's a thread about this over on rec.arts.sf.fandom,
>>> and someone posted a link to an academic study. Over the last 10-15
>>> years, iUS Americans (a nod to Canadians and Mexicans, here), the
>>> percentage of people who self-identify as a Christian has dropped from
>>> 86% to 77%.
>>>
>>> Must be the Christian fascists in power, and those who are disgusted
>>> with those wearing their religion on their sleeves hypocrites.
>>
>> That's probably true.  I know a lot of religious people tend to shun
the
>> word 'religious' now because too many people associate it with
'frothing
>> mad god-bothering militant psychopath' (or some varient thereof). 
>> Instead
>> they'll say they're 'spiritual', or that they 'have faith'; or use all
>> manner of terms to avoid the dreaded r-word.
>>
>> It's a shame when a perfectly good descriptive word gets hijacked by a 
>> non-
>> representative few.
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> It's not just the Christians that exhibit these kinds of knee-jerk 
> reactions to "religion." We get our share of such folks on 
> alt.religion.druid as well. Some even go ballistic on words like "faith"

> and "wor****p."
>
> One can only think that such people somehow feel threatened by truly 
> religious practices.
>
> Searles O'Dubhain
>

Hardly threatened by morons!!!