Calculus, also belief, was Re: [UA] Crosswords and Blue Teets

[Royal Minister of Stuff]

Actually, by the count I'm doing, the people who did
ring in were all strongly, if that word applies,
agnostic.  No one said anything like: "I'm  a
christian and I'm proud of it" or "My buddhist
philosophy fits right in with UA."  Even though
Cassady Toles proclaimed his Jewish nature in order to
make a point, I didn't see anyone saying "Being a
Daoist," or "Sufi's rule!" or even "I'll stand by my
Unitarian congregation, live or die."

That's not really suprising.  Christianity and
roleplaying games don't seem to get along very well,
but I thought that just might be FUNDAMENTALIST
christianity, you know, right-wing grass-roots
politically-active-but-not-evangelical-except-for-the-
radioshows-we-make-in-the-basement christianity. 
Chrisianity, as it were, with a K.

Why did I ask the question?  For one thing, I wanted
to see where people on the list were coming from.  For
another thing, I think beleif is very important when
it comes to magic and I suspected that a lot of people
on the list had strong beleifs (although not very
formalized ones.)

Also, I was kind of hoping the pagans and
Crowley-types would chime in and maybe draw some sort
of parallel between popular occultism and the OU's
more violent secret doctrines.

--- Greg Stolze <holycrow at mindspring.com> wrote:
> 
> >   It seems like at least half the people who've
> rung in on the belief
> >issue are Catholic or ex-Catholic.  Does this imply
> something about the
> >player base of UA?  Does it indicate that people
> raised Catholic are
> >more likely to bring it up in conversation?  (And
> no, I'm not.  Just
> >wondering.)

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-- Rp Bowman, Royal Minister of Stuff
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