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In response to a report of a badly organized survey:
Yes, it's off-topic.
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religion_ident or ericksonians. But I'm going to yield to my baser nature and answer the content.
If you expect, while you're writing something, to offend your audience, rewrite to remove the offensive text, don't weasel-word with "If anyone is offended in any way...I am sorry."
Were I offended, it wouldn't be by the linking of certain groups--though defining Wicca and Asatru as "sects" of the same thing is about as sensible as defining Parsees and Christians as the same because they're both sects of "sky God worship"--it would be by your blithe assertion that people who share your approach to religion are more intellectually sophisticated, capable of more abstraction, and more flexible than those who follow one or fewer religions.
Also, learn to spell and type: I've never in my life met an "athiest" or a "Bubbhist"--do the latter worship Bubba or Joe-Bob Briggs?
I seem to have lost some stuff to Semagic overwriting files when I didn't expect it to: I'm not sure whether this is me being careless, or an undesirable change in the code of the Semagic client. Thus, this abbreviated collection.
In response to a report of a badly organized survey:
Yes, it's off-topic.
This is
polyamory, not religion_ident or ericksonians. But I'm going to yield to my baser nature and answer the content.If you expect, while you're writing something, to offend your audience, rewrite to remove the offensive text, don't weasel-word with "If anyone is offended in any way...I am sorry."
Were I offended, it wouldn't be by the linking of certain groups--though defining Wicca and Asatru as "sects" of the same thing is about as sensible as defining Parsees and Christians as the same because they're both sects of "sky God worship"--it would be by your blithe assertion that people who share your approach to religion are more intellectually sophisticated, capable of more abstraction, and more flexible than those who follow one or fewer religions.
Also, learn to spell and type: I've never in my life met an "athiest" or a "Bubbhist"--do the latter worship Bubba or Joe-Bob Briggs?
I seem to have lost some stuff to Semagic overwriting files when I didn't expect it to: I'm not sure whether this is me being careless, or an undesirable change in the code of the Semagic client. Thus, this abbreviated collection.
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