06-22-2003, 07:14 AM
Quote:Certainly no parent or school official in their right mind would want these ideas in the minds of their children. Drugs have always been a large part of witchcraft and sorcery. Often the drugs are used to induce altered states of consciousness and to enhance the personâs ability to communicate with the spirit world.
...and that's why no child of mine will attend any Catholic services!!! They snort down the red wine to summon The Spirit down from the sky, while using incantations and bells! Just so they can EAT HIM! And just look how close "communion" is to "communism"!! And they have "godmothers", and we all know that some of those are "fairies"!!! And they are so preoccupied with sex that they will tell you, boldly, that they consider genitalia to be sacred! There's even a sexual position named after their proponents! And they talk about the Second -- okay, that's going too far.
It is a little surprising that after 2000 years, many Christians still fear people who have some knowledge, and still vilify people who contradict their beliefs. There was some famous female mathematician (I'm horrible with names) in the Egypt area around 500 A.D. or so who was brutally murdered by gung-ho Christians. Evidently they feared that she was using math against them. Then look at how the Wiccans fared, and Galileo. Nowadays, see how many people are bashing Darwin more than a century after his death, thinking that he came up with the notion of evolution. Darwin gave the already-conceived evolution some solid footing by proposing what we call "natural selection", based on the many things he'd seen on his world tour. Darwin was a Christian and he didn't want to upset the apple cart-- he waited many years before publishing, and then did mainly at the urging of others. Yet to hear many anti-evolutionists these days, you'd think that CD relished cramming it down throats, and that people who don't disbelieve evolution "worship Darwin" (actual quote!), as if we're all in a cult of personality. If ol' Chuck said it, it must be so!
I'm not saying Christians are worse than any other religion in terms of persecuting (I covered 2000yrs in a couple sentences), it's just that I get annoyed when people use Christianity to smear others, in the defense of ignorance. Christianity is supposed to be more about love than about self-righteousness. At least, that's MHO.
-Van
ps. I Married into a Catholic family, so I know about those magic bells... and yes a priest told me that "those parts" were not to be used lightly, they're sacred ... he didn't go as far as "every sperm is sacred", but that was the direction.)