Elaine- don't go. Your willingness to take a risk, to be politically
incorrect, to be honest about your views- stimulated a great online
debate.( a nice distraction from distressing world events) Thank you so
much.
patricia cunningham ( christian apologist, anglican postulant)
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From: "E.S.Housby" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 11:18 AM
Subject: Thanks all
> I have been fascinated by all the responses to my provocative remarks on
> heathenism, and it has helped to confirm me in a career decision I was
> already inclining to, namely that I'm really not at home in Religious
> Studies and ought to go and do something else. I wouldn't like anyone to
> think my aversion to paganism springs from Christian prejudice, since I
> dislike evangelical Christians much more than I dislike pagans. I once
> worked with a woman who told me she used to be a witch but had now
"returned
> to Christ" - I couldn't quite make up my mind which phase of her belief
> trajectory was more irritating. (Incidentally, she was definitely working
> class - she lived in Easington, Co. Durham, which came out with the worst
> health problems in the country in the census.) I am by sympathy and
> conviction an atheist and this is at the root of my aversion to new
> religious movements - I think that inventing even more religions is going
in
> the wrong direction.
>
> So maybe it's not too late for me to go and train as an engineer. In the
> meantime, I'll shut up on this list.
>
> Elaine
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