[MR] Authenticity (was pentograms)

[Eleonora Pragensis]

It seems as though not many are truly on board with the idea that pentagrams
were authentic within our time frame.  I'm not convinced that one or two
documentable instances mean that pentagrams were used in a truly cultural
way, and I have seen nothing on a documentary level that tells me what the
people at the time felt about the pentagram; however, I am not a herald, and
surely not a laurel.
Will there always be people that cause problems for us (like the man that
got the red cross event cancelled)? Yes.  But I don't think discriminating
against a particular symbol is the way we want to go, either.   We already
discriminate against the swastika because of modern history.  Are we to let
the fear of "offending" someone hamper not only our fun, but our research?
 Our educational principles?

I feel that if someone is offended by a particular symbol, used in an
authentic and documentable way, then perhaps they shouldn't be involved with
us.  Personally, I have been MUCH MORE offended by *actions* some people in
this Kingdom and the Society as a whole have displayed than a religious
symbol used on a device.

We are charged to re-create history AS IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN.  Religious
intolerance (and the fear and tragedy created by it) is part of history.  If
we continue that practice of religious intolerance for WHATEVER reason, we
fail to do as we have been charged.


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Dáma Eleonora Pragensis
Order of the Opal
Webminister and Minister of Arts and Sciences
Shire of Cathanar
Kingdom of Atlantia
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Si non caste tamen caute.