ANST - Adopt me - Rowan
Chiang
chiang at odsy.net
Wed Jan 21 14:52:55 PST 1998
Maybe that is why I say that I am a Zen Baptist.
Chiang, Minister of Caring & Understanding for the House Crane
Sacrifical Seneschal of the Barony of Bonwicke
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> From: Ghislaine Fontaneau/Elayne Hoover <elyh at wcc.net>
> To: ansteorra at Ansteorra.ORG
> Subject: Re: ANST - Adopt me - Rowan
> Date: Monday, January 19, 1998 10:10 PM
>
> > I know
> > many people who are convinced that most other SCAers are
> > all Christians at some level and are rabid against them, whereas
> > my take has been of meeting far more Wiccans/neo-pagans/
> > other alternative faiths who sort of assume that everyone in
> > the SCA also practices some sort of alternative religion or else
> > they'd be in church instead of at events on Sundays.
>
> Then there are those who practice one religion in their modern lives,
> yet their personna practices another religion. I grew up protestant and
> I have a Catholic personna. I met someone once who talked about the fun
> he was having as a modern Jew, playing a Catholic personna. I have a
> Christian friend who chose a pagan personna.
>
> Like anything else, I prefer to see well-researched personnas. If a
> personna is a pagan-in-hiding in a Christian-dominant country, then that
> person should not walk around at SCA events spouting, "Hi, I'm a
> pagan!" As for myself, as a French Catholic of the 16th century, I
> naturally assume that everyone I meet is also Catholic (unless they are
> a nasty Hugenot), and so I don't discuss it. My personna simply takes
> it for granted that these things go without saying; sometimes Ghislaine
> gets so comfortable that she forgets her rosarie at home....
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