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Now I'm fully aware of what the religious community thinks of furry's. I think most people are.

What I'm wondering is what you're take on it is. Being a furry artist and all. o.o

i know of plenty of religious furries (okay, four, encluding gloria) i would like to point out that idividuals are generaly good people and intelligent, but large groups of people generaly suck when opposed with an alternate view.

i used to talk to my local priest all the time. he knew full well that i'm a furry and athiest, but i respect people of faith because of the mental discpline it takes to devote your life to a good cause, and he respected me as an individual. but i dident even entertain the idea of standing in front of the congregation and expressing my views. i'd be freakin lynch mobbed and/or chased out of town with pitchforks o.O

pitty he's dead and the guy that took his place is an asshole. i havent set foot in that church for four years.

i've gone wildly off topic, havent i?

eh, i have a story of when i trapped the arch bishop of the state with his own logic in relation to his opinion that artificial insemination is evil...

helped that my RE teacher (great man and a better guitarist then i can ever hope to be) had a conversation along the same lines about a week beforehand tho...

heh, There are always some people that aren't complete jerks I guess.

I still am against churches, though.

ya know, i wonder too now, especially on the topic of lifestylers and transformation heh

Heh, I live in a really corrupt town, i guess. Our church is falling apart, because a small group of elitest's (i have no clue how you spell this) don't like our pastor. So many people left, and stuff.... cause the people in charge were meanies. So, I hate church..... I'm off topic, shaddup.

On 2002-02-17 20:46, Rico Underwood wrote:
Now I'm fully aware of what the religious community thinks of furry's. I think most people are.

What I'm wondering is what you're take on it is. Being a furry artist and all. o.o

Well, to be brutally honest... I'm really just cashing in on the whole online furry community thing. Y'see, I've been drawing talking animal characters... my whole life, basically. I've always loved animals, liked pretending to be various kinds of animals, and it's just a personality aspect that I've found that very few people share with me. Devon does, a lot of my other online friends do. But... my brand is nothing to do with the fandom. I refuse to make a judgment call on that, because *I* personally don't know that much about it. I'm just here because it's an outlet for my own passions. :

Yeah...like on mtv "sex2k: furries and plushies". that disgusted me. i'm actually a were, but i draw furry. and i dont really live the fandom. were's are more of a....i dunno...but they're not fandom. being Were is like being african american, or asian....its just another group of human beings. *shrug*. i do express myself with animal tendancies though. but i dont really think it has much to do with religion *shrugs*. you can be asian and be christian, or jewish, or buddhist. it really doesnt matter. to each his own.

Rico and y'all,

I've been reading JS Mills' "On Liberty" for a seminar, and something he wrote struck me as being very true:

What is boasted of at the present time (1859) as the revival of religion is always, in narrow and uncultivated minds, at least as much the revival of bigotry; and where there is the strong permanent leaven of intolerance in the feelings of a people, which at all times abides in the middle classes of this country, it needs but little to provoke them into actively persecuting those whom they have never ceased to think proper objects of persecution.

Whew!
Aside from his twisted writing style (and that ain't the worst!), Mills has some really cool things to say that apply to Rico's question, like the dangers posed by both governmental and social efforts to control how individuals think and how societies decay if they refuse to discuss heretical (or at least different) ideas in an open public forum. And it strikes me that there are a lot of people who think differently in this forum, which is a very good thing.

-Crash