Re: Stats (was: The profile of a conlanger

Quoth Grandsire, C.A.:
> Barry Garcia wrote:
> > Interesting. In my stats I said I was RC, but i find my religious
> > tendencies tend to take ideas from various religions (i find
> > Buddhism insipring and beautiful, and a friend kind of got me
> > interested in Islam, not to mention interest in Wicca). My religous
> > views would probably get me drummed out of a Southern Baptist church
> > real fast :).
>
>         I was raised as a Catholic and even had my first communion (my
> parents had promised me a computer, you understand...) but I never
> went to church anymore (I find that the Christ's message has been
> totally torn apart so I can't believe in the Church's teachings
> anymore). Now I'm more of a pantheistic mystic, with a strong interest
> to Buddhism, and a very personal view of the world (I could dissert on
> it for hours, and I already did, but here is not the place for it).
I'm Catholic (not confirmed, though I consider it occasionally); I still
go to mass sometimes, often when I'm home with my parents.  Apropos this
list, it really gives me some strong ideas of the importance of ritual
in any culture, not to mention the likely character of such ritual, and
the associated back-story.  Whatever else they may have done right or
wrong, the RCC *has* managed to have two millennia of ritualistic
tradition to develop, and that's just a gold mine of ideas for any
constructed culture. :)

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