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[Epoch]

On Thu, 17 May 2001, Royal Minister of Stuff wrote:

> 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.

I live in the Silicon Valley, by way of explicating regional
differences.  I was raised rather loosely Catholic, and slowly discarded
elements of that belief system until High School, where I officially
labeled myself agnostic and have remained more or less in that vein ever
since.  My high school was very approximately Episcopalean (1/2 year of
rather academic (as opposed to religous) Bible study and four Masses per
year), and as far as I was able to tell, the only difference between
Episcopaleanism (which, for those of you not in the States, is our flavour
of Anglican) and Catholocism was mention of the Pope during the Mass and
the fact that the Catholics had /much/ better music.

I went to College in Massachusetts and found that everyone there had a
vastly different idea of what Catholics were than I did.  After college, I
fled back away from the snow and returned to California.

I work in an office with a friend of mine from college (I know he's
atheist), a Morrocan woman (Islam), a woman originally from mainland China
(I think she's atheist, but have never brought it up), a New England guy
(no idea), a British/Scottish fellow (I presume Anglican, but have never
asked), a fellow Californian man (no idea), an ethnic Jew woman who
married a Latino (I think she's atheist), a woman who likes to think that
she's primarily Canadian, but whom I would say is primarily Californian
(no idea), a young man from Madagascar (Islam), and a woman from
California (no idea).

Yeah, we're the poster-children for a diverse company.  We were much more
scattered before the layoffs, too (boy, is that one stereotype which is
fully true).

Mike

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