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    Strewth

    Ask away ... if I can't answer I'll find someone who can.
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    Erm...Hello

    Good evening
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    Norse Mythology

    ooops ... have I killed another thread?
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    A Reader

    Hi ... if you ever find your way to the same place twice... do let me know how, please ... and if you figure out this points thingummeee you simply MUST tell me Okay ... and Welcome
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    Norse Mythology

    When I was a kid I had a book from my Great Aunt on "Myths of Greece and Rome" and I read it over and over (it is still on the shelf but 150 years old and fragile) ..all that stuff about Uranus eating his kids and about Zeus as showers of gold and a Heracles and stuff ... then I found a book in...
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    The Canon

    Think of it more as idiosyncratic rather than "error" <sulk> by the way, I've had some really nice comments appear in my home "User CP" under karma ... how do I acknowledge or reply? ... or what is the correct etiquette, please?
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    The Canon

    Good Heavens! Why? You never know when somone might write something that could make you (or me) change your (etc) view of something. I doubt I shall become a pagan as a result of exposure to this site and I very much doubt that I should ever abandon hope in Jesus Christ ... but I can learn...
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    What defines Paganism?

    Others have already covered that the word "Pagan" comes from the Latin, "Paganus" ... meaning country dweller (from "Pagus" = country. From the same root we derive "peasant", (via Old French "paisant ... the French "paysan". The Old Spanish "peon" meant a person who walked rather than a...
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    Hi

    Good Day. Don't follow me ... I'm new here myself ... practically a tourist... but I may take root ... in fact <urrrrrrrrrrrgh> I think I have ... it's nice.
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    The Canon

    ooops! No worries ... I'll find another ... I'm the new-boy afterall now which button do I press to chan..................?
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    Strewth

    <gasp> by swearing, huh? By the way, do French speaking people actually say Sacre bleu ? Communication is such a wonderful thing ... my (older) brother used to have weekly comic called the Eagle and in it was a story about Sgt. Luck of the Legion ... whose chums used to be drawn going around...
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    The Canon

    ...ah! But, we Christians have to over come hundreds of years of knee-jerk tradition of burning books - when we weren't burning people - and if in these enlightened times we confine the auto da fe to our hearts it is still so much easier to shout "Burn the Heretic" than to say "I see your point...
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    Christians, Why Jehovah?

    Jesus said that He came to fulfill the Scriptures ... those Scriptures being what we have as the Old Testament; thus God the Father can only be the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. If Christianity replaced Judaism instead of fulfilling it then we would only have the...
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    Women in Islam

    The only written reference I have seen for the religion of pre-Islamic Arabia and social customs is in Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" ... are there other references, please?
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    Strewth

    and as for linguistic completeness, I should confess I did know what I wrote. I trust it did not offend anyone. As further example, for instance no Restoration Comedy could be complete without at least one "Zounds" .... but even the French were at it, with for example Sacre bleu which...
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    Strewth

    Thank you for your welcome...I will be delighted to try to answer any questions I am able. Firstly, though, The Anglican Church is painted with a very broad brush and embraces a range of doctrine from Evangelicals to Anglo-Catholics (who are often more papist than the Roman Catholic Church since...
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    Strewth

    My thanks ... I already clicked on a few buttons and found I was where I wanted to go ... life is looking up. ...but speaking of "going" it is time I went to Church ... bye ...and thanks
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    Strewth

    Good Heavens... but it is hard to find your way around here. Give me a while and I'll find the way ... eventually.
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