Brilliant !  Gerhard, that is exactly why having one set of parents  
is so sinister.  I meet really smart people who have the oddest  
beliefs in strange unprovable phenomena and it often comes from their  
parents or the community their parents decided to live in.
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>
> On Mar 21, 2008, at 7:24 AM, Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
> Rich wrote:
>
>> Is Christianity voluntary?
>
> Depends on where you live :)
>
> IMO it's so ingrained in the European and US culture (and some  
> others) that
> when living there, accepting some of what came with it is not quite
> voluntary. You can try to live "against" some of that, but even  
> then you're
> living it -- just from the other side :)
>
> I'm no Christian in the normal sense of the word, but I'm fully  
> aware that
> part of what I think and feel is determined by my upbringing and my
> childhood experiences, which partly can be described as the ones of  
> a boy
> growing up in a Christian culture. I didn't have much of a choice with
> that.
>
> Gerhard



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