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- From: lib1p@elroy.uh.edu (Tammy Stark Blandino)
- Newsgroups: alt.pagan
- Subject: Re: PAGAN, was You should be a Christian because (30 words max):
- Date: 28 Dec 1992 05:50 CST
- Organization: University of Houston
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- My roommate would like to reply to this.....
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- In article <1992Dec28.013844.26572@news.ysu.edu>, ag055@yfn.ysu.edu (Ward Chanley) writes...
- >
- >>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?
- >
-
- It is an unfortunate thing that stereotypes are such a part of our culture.
- Over the years people have tried to apply some label to just about everything.
- Doesn't matter if it is god or race or type of music or whatever. There is
- no point to this in my opinion other than to inflame the targeted entities
- or institutions. And when that happens, words become secondary. Blood
- becomes primary. If we as a culture can get beyond this notion of stereotyping
- things we don't understand, then there maybe hope for us. If we don't, we
- are little better, than the animals we claim are beneath us.
-
- Blessed Be,
- White Horse Running
- (on Tammy's Account)
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