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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (77857)	4/12/2000 7:57:00 AM
From: Edwarda	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I suspect, Neocon, that you and I are both blessed (I use the word advisedly) with the experience of diversity and easy tolerance and comprehension of religious differences at an early age. I have been astonished at the intolerance that I have encountered since. And I have not forgotten the story of one Sunday morning on my parents' honeymoon. My father asked the desk clerk in a small rural town about the local churches and was given the addresses of all the Protestant denominations' churches. When he asked about the Catholic church (because my mother was Catholic), he was told, "We don't refer people to those." My father, who was Protestant and eventually agnostic, threw the fit from hell; he had grown up with anti-Catholic bigotry and would not put up with it for an instant. My poor mother was faint with embarrassment, but my father pressed the point because he felt so strongly that she should be able to worship as she believed and not be subjected to bigotry. Most of the marriages in my family have been inter-faith. So far, the only major world religion that we seem to have missed is Islam. Respect for other beliefs was bred into us of necessity. We even have a few dedicated atheists among us, married to people who are devout believers in God. When my uncle died, his wife's Lutheran congregation turned out in full for the wake and funeral; he was a treasured part of their community despite his popping off to Mass at St. Francis--there was no possible conflict for these people nor for my aunt and uncle. However, this kind of respect and understanding is still not usual from my observations. Not yet, at least....