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Zen tom, I agree with 99% of your posts, but isn't presumptuous to say that there isn't the slightest chance that anything having to do with Magick is true? Doesn't that type of sweeping statements promote intolerance, and suggest the idea that you believe that you have some sort of insight into the universal order that the rest of us don't? I'm a Pagan, I believe wholeheartedly in my path. I think Christianity is filled with more mumbo-jumbo, nonsense, myth and superstition than my path. But I would never presume to say that I KNOW 100% that it is, or that I'm right and they're wrong, because I'm a flawed human being, as we all are, and it's an act of supreme arrogance to take that position. I would fight like hell to protect anyone's right to religious freedom, because ultimately, my path is right for me, yours is right for you, etc. We're all on the same journey, what route we take to get there isn't nearly so important as the extremists who slaughter each other over dogmatic trivia seem to think it is. And what are these "slightly dangerous and dubious" practices of which you speak? To me, there's nothing more dangerous than someone who is convinced he's got an inside line to the divine that noone else has. I'm not accusing you of anything, brother, as I said, I agree with you most of the time when you post, but you've made a very broad generalization here that strikes me as ill-worded at best.
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