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Pagans, witches rattle Adamstown village
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Intelligencer Journal
Lancaster New Era
Sep 05, 2009 00:04 EST
E Market St
By LORI VAN INGEN, Staff Writer

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QUOTE (LancNewbie @ Sep 16 2009, 09:26 AM)
Oh I know what your talking about too. But please explain how posting those shops names has anything to do with it? Its a free country, they are allowed to close, and the person is allowed to name the stores. So its ok for the shop owners to express their rights but you have a problem when the other side expresses there's? Thats rather hypocritical of you. And not very Christian either. You sit and chastise her for posting the names and call her motives into question?

As far as your Druidism commment, well you wanted to paint every pagan religion in that same light, now suddenly you see grey? THats what i was pointing out, that you were trying to equate all pagan religions to that human sacrifice. But hey, whatever it takes to help you sleep easier. If you need to make things up to make your religion seem superior by all means go right ahead. I just feel sorry for you thats all. To be that narrow minded and hateful.

And again, never mind. Have a great day !
crazycatwoman
QUOTE (crazycatwoman @ Sep 16 2009, 09:43 AM)
But the person posting the stores that remained closed did so while she was claiming that those stores did not have the spirit of tolerance. By posting the names, her motives were to bring negativity upon them in some form, be it decreased patronage, etc. Bringing negativity on someone is not in the spirit of tolerance.

And save your sorrow. I have ancestors who have been beheaded for their beliefs, and I spent quite a few years working with those you defend so vehemently. I am not hateful. You interpret it as such because of your own personal feelings.

Well then that would be the truth. They were not being tolerant. Her simply naming them doesn't mean shes intolerant. Your reading things into her post because of your own personal feelings. The newspaper published the names, are they trying to bring negativity to them as well? So its ok for Christians to be bigots/intolerant, and you'll make excuses for that. But when someone points out who the bigots are, well you have a problem with that?

Defending so vehemently? No not really. Funny your ansestors were burned at the stake, Christians spent years doing that to other religions before they turned that hatred on each other. But yet your still a Christian??

QUOTE (crazycatwoman @ Sep 16 2009, 09:43 AM)
And again, never mind. Have a great day !

What made you remove the post? You can sit here and judge other people but when someone throws back the same thing at you suddenly have a problem with it??

But yeah, have a great day. Whatever it takes to make yourself feel better.
LancNewbie
QUOTE (LancNewbie @ Sep 16 2009, 09:57 AM)
Well then that would be the truth. They were not being tolerant. Her simply naming them doesn't mean shes intolerant. Your reading things into her post because of your own personal feelings. The newspaper published the names, are they trying to bring negativity to them as well? So its ok for Christians to be bigots/intolerant, and you'll make excuses for that. But when someone points out who the bigots are, well you have a problem with that?

Defending so vehemently? No not really. Funny your ansestors were burned at the stake, Christians spent years doing that to other religions before they turned that hatred on each other. But yet your still a Christian??
What made you remove the post? You can sit here and judge other people but when someone throws back the same thing at you suddenly have a problem with it??

But yeah, have a great day. Whatever it takes to make yourself feel better.

I deleted my post because I thought you are set on your path, and you have a lot of rage at Christians which you feel you are entitled to, and your opinion really didn't matter that much to me. I call myself a Christian, BECAUSE of what I experienced while practicing Wicca. And that I won't discuss with you.
crazycatwoman
QUOTE (crazycatwoman @ Sep 16 2009, 10:18 AM)
I deleted my post because I thought you are set on your path, and you have a lot of rage at Christians which you feel you are entitled to, and your opinion really didn't matter that much to me. I call myself a Christian, BECAUSE of what I experienced while practicing Wicca. And that I won't discuss with you.

Rage at Christians? Nope not really. I just don't like hypocritical people. Of any stripe. I could care less if you practiced Wicca or not, that doesn't matter to me. The point is you were accusing someone of something that really wasn't true. But like I said, whatever it takes for you to make yourself feel better about your religion. Why you need to put down another to make yours seems better is something that you need to figure out within yourself. Clearly thats not WWJD.
Same goes for the shop owners in Adamstown. Why is someone practicing their beliefs a threat to your own? They aren't forcing you to believe the same thing? Jesus taught tolerance and love of everyone, no matter what their beliefs. Clearly those shop owners missed that part in the Bible. Because you have friends or talk to people from different religions, race, creed, etc, doesn't mean you agree with them or believe the same thing they do.
LancNewbie
QUOTE (crazycatwoman @ Sep 16 2009, 11:18 AM)
I call myself a Christian, BECAUSE of what I experienced while practicing Wicca. And that I won't discuss with you.


So you're not so much a Christian as you are an anti-Wiccan?
Jarred Harris
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