SCA vs Mundane

[Angus mac Taggart/Rik Packham]

VIVAT! & HIZZAH!

Laird Angus mac Taggart
Long Haired (latent) Roman Catholic

> 
> Gnith wrote, in part:
> 
> <snip>
> It's kinda embarassing how quickly this thread has degenerated into
> "conservative, ignorant, clean-cut Christian non-SCA bubbas out to get 
> us
> pagan, long-haired SCAers."
> 
> Is there possibly a touch of pent-up hostility here?
> <snip>
> 
> As a conservative, educated, long-haired Roman Catholic I would like to 
> say that I have too often been on the receiving side of this hostility 
> from within the SCA.  It seems that if I have to endure the pagans, 
> atheists and satanists they can endure me.  As to who is right and who 
> is wrong, ultimately that will be revealed in the afterlife.  I'm not 
> going to sit here and say "why can't we all just get along" as that 
> dogma flies in the face of reality.  What I am saying is "why don't we 
> try to act like courteous adults".  Fire and sword might convert some, 
> but the better convert is the one that truly believes.
> 
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