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- From: cortese@skid.ps.uci.edu (Janis Maria Cortese)
- Newsgroups: alt.pagan
- Subject: Re: Critical Thought
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 00:23:08 GMT
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- On the subject of Pagans who started out catholic . . .
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- I really don't know if I started out an RC or not. My parents were RC's
- and I went to schools for 12 fucking years, but my family was and is very
- secular. They were the kind of RC's who think the pope is a nice old
- fart living in the 15th century and stop by the drugstore for the
- rubbers on the way home from mass. We were very K-Mart -- we took what
- we liked and left the rest. Hence, leaving the church was a more
- gradual drift than anything else for me. Once it was made supernally
- clear to me when I was a kid that I could leave behind what I didn't
- agree with, I just started dropping things off bit by bit until I looked
- down and realized I had dropped it all. At that point, I stayed with
- nothing for a while, then started picking stuff up, and it just so
- happened that many of the things I picked up seemed connected to
- Paganism and later Wicca.
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- Blessings,
- Janis
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