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On 12/29/24 6:52 AM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 29/12/2024 06:58, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
>> IMHO, like with Chinese theology, if you weren't raised,
>>    saturated, in it then you're never REALLY gonna 'get it'.
>>    Religions and cultures are usually tightly-entwined.
> 
> Odd. My experience is that looking at religions from the outside, I know 
> far more about them than their practitioners and believers  do.

   Might seem so ... but don't get cocky.

> I think the expereince of WW2 left my parents generation a bit too grown 
> up for it all.

   Well, if they were into the all-powerful/all-good god
   thing, then yea. If they still made offerings to Woden
   then not so much  :-)