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- From: traite@fellini.harvard.edu (Shirley Traite)
- Newsgroups: alt.pagan
- Subject: Re: boston area alt.paganers????
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- Date: 28 Jan 93 16:03:52 GMT
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- In article <lmdf78INN2p8@news.bbn.com> dhardin@bbn.com (Dawn Hardin) writes:
- >In article <68-JNEWS-2.1@wonky.UUCP> ailsa@wonky.UUCP (Ailsa N.T. Murphy) writes:
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- >But I think it would be great to have our kids growing up with a little
- >bit of pagan companionship. Or even some pagan "sunday school." (I
- >say this knowing that Shirley, at least, will probably hate that idea.)
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- Oh Dawn, Now You KNOW I have to respond to this! :)
- I don't object to the idea of a "pagan sunday school". What I have
- problems with is the practice so many "sunday schools" have of ramming
- dogma down kids throats and discouraging them from asking questions.
- I admit, I will probably take Rebecca to the Unitarians when she's
- five. I was pretty happy with my sunday school experience, I think it
- encouraged me to explore other paths and ask questions. What they
- left out was any sort of spirituality. I think that a "pagan sunday
- school" just might be able to fulfill that missing link (As long as
- it was not presented as the only correct way of viewing the world.)
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- >
- >Sort of off topic, but my day care provider has a Virgin Mary thingie
- >on her wall. Alice was trying to grab it and my daycare-er picked her
- >up and said "See, this is the Goddess." She had just asked me to explain
- >my beliefs because she tries to make everyone feel comfortable during
- >Christmas season. It was great to know that she had understood that
- >well, and was open-minded enough to see the connection between her
- >religion and mine.
- >
- That's great! Yes, open minded Christians DO exist. Few and far
- between unfortunately.
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- >Dawn
- >--
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- Blessings.
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- Shirley Traite (traite@sdac.harvard.edu) |I only speak for myself.
- Statistical Programmer |
- SDAC/Biostatistics Dept. |
- Harvard Sch. of Public Health |
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- <> IT IS A VIRTUE TO HAVE AN OPEN AND INQUISITIVE MIND. <>
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