Lately, I've been seeing more and more journals, stamps and art here on DA bashing religions of one kind or another, or religion in general, or lack of religion. Why can't people just respect and tolerate what other people choose to believe--or not to believe? Why is it such an alien concept to simply be NICE and to try to get along?? We were taught this in daycare; it should be a fundamental aspect of our worldview by now...but it seems the older people get, the more intolerant they become. Me, I am an Eastern Orthodox Christian, but I have very close friends of ALL faiths, including Pagans/Wiccans, Agnostics, Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, Atheists and even Satanists. I love, respect and treat them ALL equally, as they do me (else we wouldn't be friends to begin with). I do not place my Christian friends above any of my non-Christian friends, and I NEVER try to force my own faith on anyone. I rarely even mention it at all unless asked, or if I'm posting something church-related in my own private journal, locked behind a "religious" filter that my friends have specifically requested to be able to read. Like most of you, I too have strong opinions on certain controversial issues (abortion, for instance), but those views I generally keep to myself, because I don't wish to step on the toes of anyone else who may feel differently. I try my hardest to live by the Golden Rule ("Treat others as you wish to be treated"), because it's not only common decency; it's also common sense ("What goes around, comes around").

~SD

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Commissions: Closed except for b/w logos and tattoo designs (note me if interested).
Art Trades: Closed--still catching up on the old ones.
Kiribans: Closed--still owe a couple that I need to finish.
Art Requests: I only take commissions; sorry!
Gift Art: On serendipitous occasions and only for close friends.
Art Gifts: Love them, of course, but I'd really rather my hubby get them than me.

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