[honeygrl]

"I don't judge paganism entirely by its adherents. It's animistic belief system is enough to dismiss it. Dancing around trees and fires naked, however, does tend to make one wonder about the sanity of the adherents. "

So if i judged all Christians based on the snake handlers then you would be OK with that even though all Christians aren't snake handlers (and all pagans don't dance naked around trees and fires)?

[CyberCowboy777]

So if i judged all Christians based on the snake handlers then you would be OK with that even though all Christians aren't snake handlers

We are forming our opinion of paganism entirely by its own existence, not its participants.

I believe the words were "It's animistic belief system is enough to dismiss it.". You want to imply some judgment based upon one or two people, yet we discount the entirety of the religion based upon Message and Intent.

The other side brings up Jim and Pat and you turn around an imply that we are the ones making the individualization of a religion.

[Dataman]

So if i judged all Christians based on the snake handlers then you would be OK with that even though all Christians aren't snake handlers (and all pagans don't dance naked around trees and fires)?

Of course all pagans don't dance naked around fires. I was just recalling a thread where the corpse was defending that very thing in the military.