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Subject: A foreigner in your own country Author: EyrtheFyre [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 13:29:01 10/29/02 Tue I have some other idea to chew on: Is America a Christian Nation? I would have answered "NO!" right off the bat just like most of you, but now I would have to think about it first. Why this change of attitude? Well, it happend just yesterday, I was showing a classmate one of the flyers I have printed announcing when and where the gathering would be (Halloween, outside Campus Centre at noon), Well anyways, I was telling her how people keep ripping them down. Well, a guy standing next to us looked down at my flyer and pointed to the little graphic (it was an american flag with a pentacle where the stars should be) and he said: "THAT'S DISGRACEFUL" needless to say we had a bit of a shouting match. I could have handled it better but what I remember him yelling was "PEOPLE HAVE FOUGHT AND DIED FOR THIS COUNTRY..." and I retorted "AND MOST OF THEM HAPPEN TO BE WICCAN!" I think what he saw in that grpahic was not a picture of Americans being proud to be Pagan, but rather a symbol of contempt towards the USA. I don't think he even read the flyer... That little incident made me feel like an alien, not just alientated, but like I'm not even a citizen of this country. I would have never said it before that day, but "America truly is a Christian nation." (What I mean by this statement is that Christianity is the 'standard' religion in this country, and that is a sad, sad, concept. A concept which I feel should be eliminated) *)0(* Light and love, Eyrthe Fyre [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]