I agree it's offensive, but I don't really think there's anything that we can do about it. It's just the nature of the beast. By the way, I'm thinking about starting an OU Pagan and Wiccan Society next year (PAWS), and I was wondering if anyone would be interested in joining something like that.
-Alexis
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>Subject: Is anyone else offended by this . . . ?
>Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 08:37:26 -0800
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> Is anyone else offended by this, or am I being
> oversensitive?
>
> I have no difficulty with the Christian celebrations
> taking place on campus this upcoming week -- this
> is Holy Week leading into Easter, a major sacred
> time for many Christian denominations, and I think
> there's nothing wrong and perhaps something healthy
> with Christians celebrating, just as there's nothing
> wrong and something healthy with Muslims celebrating
> or pagans celebrating or, to use a secular example,
> with gay pride celebrations. My own denomination
> celebrates Holy Week, and I find it a personally
> meaningful time.
>
> However, I have just seen the agenda for the week,
> and it includes a Thursday panel called "Losing My
> Religion" -- which "celebrates" people who have
> become Christian by abandoning another faith!
>
> To celebrate one's faith seems a perfectly healthy
> activity to me, but to celebrate one's faith at the
> expense of other faiths . . .
>
> Is anyone else offended by this, or am I being
> oversensitive?
>
> yours,
> W. Everett Chesnut, Ph.D.
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