[Zac]

The reason we accept some rites and ban others is because of the way they've been presented to us over the years. In the early days of Christianity, all the clergy sought to convert the world. The easiest way to convince the pagan barbarian tribes to join was to incorporate the festivals they held so dearly into Christianity at face value, while at the same time changing the rite entirely to fit the church's catechism and canon law. This gave the clergy a foothold. Over the years, they kept what festivals or rites they felt they could control and did away with others by dubbing them satanic and evil. To an ignorant peasant, an educated wise priest seemed in his own way mystical, and if he told you you would burn in fire forever if you didn't do things his way, the peasant probably believed it, being so afraid he capitulated. Over the last 2,000 years, we in the West have had it ingrained in our heads from birth that certain things were just plain evil and satanic, not realizing that it's thought of that way merely because of 2,000-year-old religious propaganda. The reason we don't think of Eastern rites and such as being evil is basically that we've had far less time (about 500 years or so) to be told they are evil. Plus, unless you travel, those of us raised here in the West still don't even know or understand Eastern rites and even eastern thinking, which in so many ways is very different from ours. In this latter case it's a simple case of "out of sight, out of mind."

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Name : Zac, Gender : M, Race : White/Caucasian, Age : 19, City : Pensacola, State : FL Country : United States, Education level : High School Diploma, 

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