Tag: neopaganism
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Religion: A Tool for Constructing Meaning, but not for Discovering Truth
“Don’t confuse meaning with truth.” — Thucydides I have a religion. Hell, I have a few of them. Honestly, if there was something akin to a “Jam of the Month Club” for religions, I’d join; $120 a year and every month I’d get a new religion to sample—I’d be all over that shit. Yummy yummy,…
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The Typical Pagan Hooey
You join a group. You’ve got your own ideas and experiences. You speak about them. Someone rushes forward to tell you in no uncertain terms how wrong you are and why you’re a terrible person. You get disgusted with the group and dip out. Now, replace “you” with “I” and that’s pretty much the story…
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Paganism has a Counseling Problem and It is Destroying Communities
One of the biggest problems facing the neopagan community is the general lack of qualifications of its clergy. Sure, someone may become a third-degree high priestess of a Wiccan coven or achieve the seventh degree of the OTO and prance about calling himself a bishop but, without proper training in pastoral counseling, what do these…
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Cult-Like Ideation & Social Media
Today, a friend of mine posted a cartoon. It advocated that men should transform themselves to be more like Steve Irwin, Carl Sagan, Bob Ross, and Fred Rogers. It’s a modified image I’ve seen before, though the initial image contained a reference to John Denver and not Sagan. I made a comment and soon had…