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- From: ag055@yfn.ysu.edu (Ward Chanley)
- Subject: Re: PAGAN, was You should be a Christian because (30 words max):
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.013844.26572@news.ysu.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 01:38:44 GMT
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- So, if someone can't back up hir statements, we should treat them as gospel
- because to do otherwise is to be narrowminded?
- ----
-
- No, but I do think it gets tiresome
- when the entire newsgroup has
- degenerated into arguments over the
- arcane points of history.
-
- I don't care if Wicca is ultimately
- derived from a word meaning "Blind
- Women who Dance With Pigs"; we're
- talking about changing the
- connotation, NOW, in our modern culture
- of the word "Witch", which has, for a
- long time, been connected with stereo-
- types that practicing Witches aren't
- too happy about.
-
- If a language is going to live, it
- needs to be able to grow and evolve.
- If Tammy wants to believe that the
- word Wicca means the "Wise Ones",
- and yes, I too have come across the
- same attribution, I don't think she's
- harming anyone by posessing that
- belief. She may not be 100%
- historically accurate, but who cares?
-
- --
- I thank the Goddess for my life,
- I thank the Goddess for my loves,
- I thank the Goddess for continued blessings.
- -- Z Budapest
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