[Faith-talk] Refutation and preeminent repudiation totheZionistsubjection.

[Kendra. Schaber]

Hi readers! 
These are all good questions. As a Pagan, I see the world as a church. That means that wherever we can get permission to practice our religion is fair game. We can practice it anywhere we choose as long as we get permission from the managers, landlords or owners if we want to burn candles for example because not all buildings allow it because of fire hazards. If we visit someone's house, we have to respect there faith and associated gods. When I go to visit my Christian friends, I respect their beliefs and their god while I'm there. My blindness doesn't affect my faith. The ADA doesn't affect my faith either. The ADA affects my blindness especially whenever signs are not in Braille.. I believe that we are all equals both as a blind person and as a Pagan. I also believe that there are many paths to eternity. In my book, if only one path was accepted, than everyone in the world wouldn't be happy with their religions or that everyone who didn't believe in the Christian God would be committing major crimes. Since I know a lot of people who are happy with their chosen paths, I am included here, I have always believed that if you are happy with your faith, than that is your correct path. We all have our rights to our aponions. However, sacred texts from all over the world needs to be respected and not criticized. You can read it and dissagree with it as long as you make a point to agree to dissagree. Pagans don't follow one set of sacred texts. We reconize that all of them are equal. All of them have truth to them. All of them are also followed by at least one group of people very much like the Christians follow the bible. I think that the questions are thoughtful but offensive to Christians because they also critasize their sacred texts. I have a question for the non-Christians on this list. Do you read, studdy and regard any sacred texts as the truth? I call sacred text scripture, legends, folk lore, dogma, mythology. As for me, I follow mythology, folk lore and legends. I believe that they hold a lot of truth. I do read scripture and agree with some of it. I read it with respect and reconize it as a sacred text. I read it to learn from so I can better understand what others follow and regard as sacred. I see it as a way to be better informed about the faiths of others so that whenever I meet them, I can jump in and make friendships or partnerships with them. I look at all angles as I read and take with me what I agree with as good teachings and the rest with a grain of salt and reconize that information as sacred to all who do agree with it. I would want the same done with my sacred texts. 
Kendra 


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> On Jul 20, 2014, at 7:36 AM, debby phillips via Faith-talk <faith-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Hey Ashley, I think your topic is right on.  How does blindness affect our faith? And how does blindness affect how we deal with others of differing religions? Now, that may sound strange, so read me out.  First of all, I'll deal with my second question.  There are various cultures and faiths that view blindness very negatively.  How do people overcome those obstacles? As a dog user how do I deal with a cab driver who refuses to allow my dog in his cab because he is Muslim and believes that dogs are unclean? how do we deal with issues that affect our rights and someone's freedom of religion? For instance, if a law requires that I do something that I find reprehensible because of my faith, how do I deal with that?
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> Then my first question, how does blindness affect my faith? Well, in one way it does not.  What I believe is in my heart, and I try to live out my faith every day, showing the love of Jesus to others.  And I want to be of service to others.  But what happens when people say, You can't do this or that because of your blindness.  As a Catholic, I wanted to enter a particular community of nuns.  (This was years ago and now I am married).  But they did not want to have "anyone with handicaps" in their community.  Good luck with that, when members get older and have disabilities.  Churches in the United States are not required to follow the rules of the ADA.  So what recourse does a person have? These are topics that I think are blindness-related, and certainly NFB related.  Thanks for reading.    Blessings,    Debby
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