Where the heck are we going to find a virgin to throw into the volcano?
Sweden?
I think this analogy is rather insulting to nutty extremist-type Pagans.
A better analogy IMHO would be “Extremist Paganism blended with totalitarian fascism.”
🙂
But it really is.
If you believe in nothing, you will believe in anything. Count down till the wickerman.
Sorry, the article makes a mountain of a molehill. Recall that the paganism in question is also part of the Judeo-Christian culture and has been for much longer than 1500 years. For example, pagan holidays like Christmas and Easter managed to survive the transition to Christianity.
I think the real problem here is that it introduces dogma and considerable bias into peoples’ views of us and our place in the world. The death of a glacier is mourned, the lives of billions of people who are getting better every year is ignored.
The case is a lot stronger than what is in the article and environmentalism is a large part but really, it is bigger than that single issue.
Rather than “paganism”, it is useful to look at humans earliest religions and how the oddities of human behavior have been manipulated outside of a genuine religious context.
Well they are getting there. But they don’t have any flagellants yet.
I regard blocking road traffic as the most annoying manner of protest of public demonstration there is.
But tell me that you don’t have at least some admiration for these Netherlands farmers:
I like to distinguish Classical Paganism (the stuff that evolved out of Hesiod’s “Cosmogony”) from the kind of Witchy-Poo Celtic Revival stuff popular with crystal freaks and the like. I used to try to introduce Neopagans to “De Rerum Natura,” but they only get upset.
Where the heck are we going to find a virgin to throw into the volcano?
Sweden?
I think this analogy is rather insulting to nutty extremist-type Pagans.
A better analogy IMHO would be “Extremist Paganism blended with totalitarian fascism.”
🙂
But it really is.
If you believe in nothing, you will believe in anything. Count down till the wickerman.
Sorry, the article makes a mountain of a molehill. Recall that the paganism in question is also part of the Judeo-Christian culture and has been for much longer than 1500 years. For example, pagan holidays like Christmas and Easter managed to survive the transition to Christianity.
I think the real problem here is that it introduces dogma and considerable bias into peoples’ views of us and our place in the world. The death of a glacier is mourned, the lives of billions of people who are getting better every year is ignored.
The case is a lot stronger than what is in the article and environmentalism is a large part but really, it is bigger than that single issue.
Rather than “paganism”, it is useful to look at humans earliest religions and how the oddities of human behavior have been manipulated outside of a genuine religious context.
Well they are getting there. But they don’t have any flagellants yet.
I regard blocking road traffic as the most annoying manner of protest of public demonstration there is.
But tell me that you don’t have at least some admiration for these Netherlands farmers:
https://www.theblaze.com/news/farmers-tired-of-being-blamed-for-climate-change-drive-tractor-convoy-to-the-hague-causing-record-breaking-rush-hour-in-the-netherlands
I like to distinguish Classical Paganism (the stuff that evolved out of Hesiod’s “Cosmogony”) from the kind of Witchy-Poo Celtic Revival stuff popular with crystal freaks and the like. I used to try to introduce Neopagans to “De Rerum Natura,” but they only get upset.