Beleglas, sweetie, please let the Orthodoxy be. Telling me that my faith "related" to Catholicism, is like shouting "God save the Queen!" in the face of an IRA member. Why don't we stick to the (rapdily degenerating) discussion at hand? All we're going to get otherwise is a rebuke from Mith, and a closed thread.
It's lucky that none of our passionate Protestants have discovered this discourse, or, if they have, have not unleashed some seriously angry invective. I hate to see this become just another hot-button issue that needs to be shut down because we can't stand the heat, and can't act like adults.
We're not here to discuss the supposed hypocrisy of the Christian God, etc., we're here to discuss the possibility of Tolkien's works being a religion "in of itself." I say no, though the spiritual wonder I feel upon reading the books can't be denied.
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~The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories. This is one of mine~
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