[UA] Greetings

[Royal Minister of Stuff]

I think the problem is that different regions have
diffent degrees of fundamentalism.  It's odd not to
meet a Christian where I live, even in the RPG
community.  In fact, the one fundamentalist RPG that I
know of, Dragonraid, was published by a guy here in
Colorado Springs.  A lot of my relatives are from
rural Iowa and the other ones are New Mexico and
Southern California latinos.  Religion is certainly an
issue in my family and it has been with almost
everyone I've met.  Living in Portland, I didn't meet
too many religious folk but I met a lot of pagans and
magicians.  I consider myself a rationalist (albeit
not a very good one) and a failed agnostic (which
means I'm screwed over no matter what happens after
death - but I pretty much expected that.)

Admittedly, though, I know very little about
Catholicism and my sister is Catholic.  I keep
embarrassing myself like when I accidentally rubbed
the soot off her head on ash Wednesday.

--- Epoch <msulliva at wso.williams.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 17 May 2001, James O'Rance wrote:

> >  >>>And there was some guy from a country which
> has tried to essentially 
> > excise X rated material from its chunk of the
> internet which called the U.S. 
> > "Land of the Puritans and Religious Right."<<<
> > 
> > Touche. Porn isn't really a religious issue here,
> as I understand it - it's 
> > a political issue driven by some conservative
> elements of the government. 
> > Australia had a conservative backlash in recent
> years, but we're a notably 
> > secular nation.
> 
> Sure.  On the other hand, "Puritanism" isn't a
> religion (anymore) -- it's
> a generally perjorative adjective that we apply to
> socially conservative
> folks.
> 
> I suggest that you're probably overestimating the
> amount of religious
> influence, and particularly conservative Christian
> religious influence,
> that there is in public life here.  For example, at
> my work, there's
> nobody that I'd say with any kind of absolute
> certainty is Christian -- I
> suspect that several people may be, but it's never
> come up.  The
> predominant vocalized religion at my workplace is
> Islam, and we basically
> only know that because the Muslims won't eat lunch
> with us during Ramadan
> and don't eat pork.


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-- Rp Bowman, Royal Minister of Stuff
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