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- From: ag055@yfn.ysu.edu (Ward Chanley)
- Subject: Re: PAGAN, was You should be a Christian because (30 words max):
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 23:59:58 GMT
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- >>think it is better to use, oh, I dunno, the actual NAME of your faith system,
- >>if it has one, and if it doesn't, then why throw a silly Christianity-derived
- >>term on there? I find the word is used largely for attention-getting and
- >>pretense.
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-
- I don't think that most of the Pagans
- who use the term are either a) mocking
- Christianity or b) seeking attention.
- The reality is that there are a whole
- -BUNCH- of pagan/neopagan religions
- out there, and "pagan" has evolved as
- a blanket term to embrace religions of
- pantheism, polytheism, Goddess worship,
- magic, ecology, etc etc etc (I don't
- want to ressurect the debate on what
- constitues a "real" pagan; define the
- term however you wish).
-
- This is, in my mind, a convienient
- compromise; otherwise, we'd have to
- call this alt.wicca.druids.asatru.
- women's spirituality.Gaia Theorists.
- Faerie Spirituality.Taoism.Hinduism.
- Lamaism.Shinto.Shamanism.Native
- Spirituality.New Age.magic.magick.
- magik.ritual magic.natural magic.
- Ceremonial magic.etc etc etc...
-
- --
- I thank the Goddess for my life,
- I thank the Goddess for my loves,
- I thank the Goddess for continued blessings.
- -- Z Budapest
-