[Sca-cooks] Cook's Prayer, was RE: 9/11 SCA cooks

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Sep 12, 2006, at 4:58 PM, <tom.vincent at yahoo.com> wrote:

> And for those who have outgrown superstition:

Okay, I'll explain this clearly, once. I truly don't wish to be rude,  
but I really want you to understand.

Yes, there have been some prayers and other references to others'  
belief systems, but we've relied on each others' good will to  
understand that it's all in a spirit of cultural education. I can't  
believe anyone here expects anyone's religious beliefs to be changed  
by somebody daring to acknowledge the existence of the concept in  
European culture of, say, Saint Lawrence. It's not proselytizing, and  
I don't think too many Muslims, Jews, Protestants of whatever  
denomination, Buddhists, Hindi, Taoists, Orthodox Christians, Born- 
Again Christians, Pagans, Ethical Culturists, Theosophists,  
Zoroastrians, pagans of whatever sort, Manicheans or, for that  
matter, Satanists, or anyone else felt sufficiently threatened by the  
thread to demand equal time for an opposing viewpoint, but it was  
probably pretty predictable that if anybody did, it would be you.

I'll go out on a limb and suggest that nobody here is interested in  
converting anyone to or from any given religion, except, perhaps, you.

The only really unfortunate part of all this is that while I'm pretty  
sure Roger Zelazny was joking when he wrote the passage in question,  
I doubt that you were.

Adamantius