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	<title>Comments on: Good Friday = Boring Friday</title>
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		<title>By: Stephen</title>
		<link>http://stephenspillane.com/blog/index.php/2009/04/good-friday-boring-friday/comment-page-1/#comment-512</link>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 02:22:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m glad you found them fascinating sully! :D

Its not a case of auditioning religions to be fair, but more a journey of discovery to see what religion actually fits in what you believe in. Christianity does not fit me at all. Mainly because I believe in more things that Christianity can explain and I don&#039;t believe in many thingd christians believe in.

My beliefs are based on my experiences, not my superstitions, I hope! The beauty of being a pagan is that paganism is so diverse is that you are not tied down to one particular belief, for example there are ecclesiastical pagans who do belive in Christ as well as the various other things.

To me, my religion fits my beliefs, as I assume yours fit you. Atheism is a from of a belief system!

(PS I am under the afluence of inlcohol writing this so I hope it makes sense!)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m glad you found them fascinating sully! <img src='http://stephenspillane.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Its not a case of auditioning religions to be fair, but more a journey of discovery to see what religion actually fits in what you believe in. Christianity does not fit me at all. Mainly because I believe in more things that Christianity can explain and I don&#8217;t believe in many thingd christians believe in.</p>
<p>My beliefs are based on my experiences, not my superstitions, I hope! The beauty of being a pagan is that paganism is so diverse is that you are not tied down to one particular belief, for example there are ecclesiastical pagans who do belive in Christ as well as the various other things.</p>
<p>To me, my religion fits my beliefs, as I assume yours fit you. Atheism is a from of a belief system!</p>
<p>(PS I am under the afluence of inlcohol writing this so I hope it makes sense!)</p>
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		<title>By: Sully</title>
		<link>http://stephenspillane.com/blog/index.php/2009/04/good-friday-boring-friday/comment-page-1/#comment-509</link>
		<dc:creator>Sully</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 22:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I had a look at those posts - I found them quite fascinating (as a good blog should be!), but I don&#039;t understand the process of auditioning religions then settling on one. I certainly couldn&#039;t ever see myself seeing through the falsities of one religion, then throwing myself into another.

Of course, that&#039;s probably because I&#039;m an awkward prick and don&#039;t like being told what to do - once you free your mind of backwards superstitions, I don&#039;t see how subscribing to new ones isn&#039;t a complete regression.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I had a look at those posts &#8211; I found them quite fascinating (as a good blog should be!), but I don&#8217;t understand the process of auditioning religions then settling on one. I certainly couldn&#8217;t ever see myself seeing through the falsities of one religion, then throwing myself into another.</p>
<p>Of course, that&#8217;s probably because I&#8217;m an awkward prick and don&#8217;t like being told what to do &#8211; once you free your mind of backwards superstitions, I don&#8217;t see how subscribing to new ones isn&#8217;t a complete regression.</p>
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		<title>By: Stephen</title>
		<link>http://stephenspillane.com/blog/index.php/2009/04/good-friday-boring-friday/comment-page-1/#comment-494</link>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 01:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sully, I&#039;ve blogger before about my religion. I am  pagan just so you know. :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sully, I&#8217;ve blogger before about my religion. I am  pagan just so you know. <img src='http://stephenspillane.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Sully</title>
		<link>http://stephenspillane.com/blog/index.php/2009/04/good-friday-boring-friday/comment-page-1/#comment-492</link>
		<dc:creator>Sully</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 00:07:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I whinged about this very thing &lt;a href=&quot;http://ssully.blogspot.com/2008/03/good-friday.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;last year&lt;/a&gt;, in another instance of really-need-to-take-a-breath-before-posting type blogging, and I don&#039;t even drink!

I found your comment quite curious though, &quot;Im not Christian, let alone Catholic!&quot; - can I ask what you are? I find it curious that you don&#039;t volunteer how you self-identify - I find self-labelling quite interesting, so excuse the nosiness!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I whinged about this very thing <a href="http://ssully.blogspot.com/2008/03/good-friday.html" rel="nofollow">last year</a>, in another instance of really-need-to-take-a-breath-before-posting type blogging, and I don&#8217;t even drink!</p>
<p>I found your comment quite curious though, &#8220;Im not Christian, let alone Catholic!&#8221; &#8211; can I ask what you are? I find it curious that you don&#8217;t volunteer how you self-identify &#8211; I find self-labelling quite interesting, so excuse the nosiness!</p>
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		<title>By: Fab Friday! (kinda) &#171; Joseph O&#8217;Brien</title>
		<link>http://stephenspillane.com/blog/index.php/2009/04/good-friday-boring-friday/comment-page-1/#comment-491</link>
		<dc:creator>Fab Friday! (kinda) &#171; Joseph O&#8217;Brien</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:22:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] shares the same Good Friday mentality as [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Bryan</title>
		<link>http://stephenspillane.com/blog/index.php/2009/04/good-friday-boring-friday/comment-page-1/#comment-489</link>
		<dc:creator>Bryan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:23:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This really is a disgrace. I thought I lived in a secular republic, not a Catholic theocracy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This really is a disgrace. I thought I lived in a secular republic, not a Catholic theocracy.</p>
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