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So there it is, shame we can`t all see things in the same light
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However, remembering the old adage, of not throwing out the baby with the bathwater, here is a quote from the current Dalai Lama.


'Your prime purpose on earth is to help one another. If you can't help one another at least don't hurt one another.' - Dalai Lama


Because we shouldn`t forget that whilst religious organisations have often abused the unwary, and exploited the innocents, there have been those whose lives and works have indeed been exemplary, not all have sought the velvet cushions and golden thrones of hiearchal rule.



"A cat is worth a groat (four pence). At birth she is worth a penny, two pence after she has opened her eyes, and a groat if she has caught a mouse. "



Suprisingly the above was an actual law in Wales, during the tenth century (A.D.), there were few principal laws in Wales, not many of them relating to religion.

The King at that time, Hywel Dda, or "Hughie the good", was particularly fond of hunting and feasting,(and beautiful women).
He saw little use for a kingdom that would require a large percentage of its` people to be engaged in law and religion.

Instead he preferred a kingdom of mountains, oaken forests, well-ordered farms and healthy flocks of sheep, fit and hardy goats, herds of full-fleshed cattle, happy pigs, contented chickens and ducks, wild boar, pheasants, fat geese and granaries that were full, with surplus for those in need.

He also decreed that women could own property, and that all children, who were born "outside" of marriage had all the rights of those born "inside" marriage.




He did once, it is said, visit the Vatican, but there are conflicting stories as to the purpose of his trip...But that is another tale.






Ah well, since then have been some changes. (Click on the "No title", for an insight into the laws and the man who wrote them, more than ten centuries past, and ruled that in his land, women would be equal to men.)

Note: I have slightly amended this post, since first writing. Especially the link at the title, which now shows a slightly more balanced insight into tenth century Britain.)