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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I am going to walk the camino just to have some fun and
talk to some interesting people.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Surely, the camino has a collection of mystics, dreamers,
escapists and history buffs along with the truly religious seeking an
experience.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>My guess is the latter are a minority.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Peace,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Doug Norvell</FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A href="mailto:rebritesaYAHOO.COM" title=rebritesaYAHOO.COM>Rebekah Scott</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
href="mailto:GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU"
title=GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU>GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, April 27, 2003 6:00
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> a "Christian" camino?</DIV>
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<DIV>Why can't we all just get along? </DIV>
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<DIV>Rose is Christian. The guy from out west is not. We all walk the Camino.
Nobody is any more right than the other. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>It's this hypersensitivity and arrogance, that two-headed
monster, that create all kinds of conflict and destroy what the Camino is
meant to build up. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>It's impossible to "de-Christianize" the Road. It's also possible to
over-analyze and pick apart its meaning and history. But at the end of
the day, its great charm and compelling power lies in its mystery. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>And that's the stuff that dreams, and myths, and religions are made on.
It's utterly human, and very beautiful -- not to be dissed as "fairy tales"
and "cults." I am always taken by the irony of how
those who trumpet "diversity" and "tolerance" are the same ones who use
divisive language and ask questions that start with "how can They...?" </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>The camino predates both Christianity and Islam and atheism. I'll bet it
outlasts them all, too. (I hope it does!) </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Yours,</DIV>
<DIV>Rebekah </DIV><BR><BR>Rebekah Scott,
journalista<BR>'The more I learn, the less I know.'
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