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Abstract
With this essay my intent is to show that many religions are becoming more tolerant of
one another as spiritual and personal beliefs have become more diverse and accepting. While
ethnic mixture and social hierarchy are becoming blurred, people are becoming more open to
input by a wide range of different beliefs and worship. This is the learning of many paths and one
enlightenment, that everyone is finding their own path to god and their higher self.
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Not so long ago in France a very spoiled entitled man, one who called himself a Mason,
though did not build anything but a monarchy; he cast his crown into the fire and pulled out a
ring. (Cyberpoint Limited, 2004) With this he claimed that God set him to be the king of the
earth. (Big Site of History, 2008) His name was Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus (272-
337 A.D.) and he was the first of many, many holy kings of earth. His claim to fame, Christianity
or rather the outlawing of all other religions besides Christianity, was long lived and was held as
an example to Western Europe's Masonic brotherhood of how to attain and keep political power.
It is a lie that Rome persecuted Christians for any long period of time. Historically the
persecution lasted about twelve years. (Humphreys, 2008) For control of the population the holy
firm and coercive action to make the peasantry Christian... Miracles, wonders,
How can we forget our own American History? Religious persecution brought a majority of
Western Europeans to America. When they signed the Declaration of Independence they refused
the holy king his divine province in the New World. However grim it looked, the Treaty of Paris
signed in September 1783, meant that there was no hand in America for the European Monarchy.
The first Amendment to the Constitution (Delegates of the Philadelphia Convention, 1787) gave
the peasants who were once persecuted because they were Pagan, or did not accept the orthodox,
a separation of powers and a respect for the individual through democracy and self-rule.
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Years of inquisition and coup d’état by literally making men bow down and accept either
death by sword or to kneel before the cross, Christianity swept across Europe. (Fletcher, 1998)
When the American Revolutionary War happened, the Monarchy of Europe, whose precedence
was founded on the tenant that they were picked by God to rule, the inquisitions had bankrupted
and were without funds to side in a war against the new country. Fearless men, haggard and worn
by injustices they had suffered, who believed they would die at the hands of the trained and
obedient, that their plight was futile, marched out to meet the red coats and then slaughtered
With a few tragedies like the Salem Witch Trials (1692-93) largely citizens are free to
practice Magick. There are still a few people who do not think they should have to live near
people that do not believe as they do. Just recently I wrote a petition on behalf of a high school
girl who was kicked out of school for wearing a pentacle that her teachers could not
take. (Meyers, 2007) In the "Texas Department of Criminal Justice (T.D.C.J.) Prisoners within
this state are not allowed to study or use the runes in anyway. They are not allowed to receive
publication which contains runes…” (The Odinic Rite, 2008) Unfounded claims of Satanic
Ritual Abuse and razors in Halloween candy still float around despite being completely
incredulous (Midwinter & Allen, 2002; Young, 2004; Aquino, 1993; Ney, 1995). In April of last
year Americans United for Separation of Church and State won in its lawsuit against the U.S.
Department of Veterans Affairs for barring the inscription of the Wiccan religious symbol on
marriage ceremonies for people of Pagan faith has become common place. With the invention of
the internet a wide variety of Pagans have came out of the broom closet in droves. All of the
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sudden so-called family groups are surrounded by people of different faiths as soon as they log
Conclusion:
We have grown up and have not found it necessary to kill each other because we do not
see eye to eye about who that god is. There are more than just Pagans and Christians anymore;
there are Muslims, Hindu, Sufi’s and just as there are Catholics, Protestants, and Mormons; there
is Odinists, Druids and Wiccans as well. We get along a little better mostly due to this law that
says that we can practice whatever religion that we see fit. Maybe it is a sign from God or
whatever higher power that there are many paths to take there is only one enlightenment, one
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Big Site of History. (2008, June 4). Summary: The Problem of Divine-Right Monarchy.
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Delegates of the Philadelphia Convention. (1787). Constitution of the United States of America.
http://www.jesusneverexisted.com/persecutions.html
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Ney (1995). True and False Allegations of Child Sexual Abuse. New York: Brunner/Mazel Inc.
http://www.odinic-rite.org/texas.html
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