Posted on 08/20/2004 11:59:43 AM PDT by Between the Lines
> for most Wiccans I have met you take away their chocolate.
Uh... what? In English, please....
> And "pagan" is one of those terms that gets batted around and is NOT synonymous with "Wiccan".
Indeed. "PAgan," in it's roughest form, basically means "Anyone not of my religion," and is more liekly to be understood as somebody who is not Christian, Jew, Muslim or atheist or agnostic, I guess. Everybody else be a dirty pagan... and we can't be too sure about them shifty agnostics...
> A lot of it is fruit-cakeism.
Indeed. I would lump Wiccans in with that, thought harmless fruitcakism.
> my point was although it's not something wiccan would do, it's a surprisingly good way to disturb a wiccan.
Would it distrub *you*? Religion aside... I come home and find my cat gutted... I'm gonna grab Mr. Scattergun and go find me somebody. That Just Ain't Right.
> My point was to acknowledge it *could* be a Christian, even though it didn't appear to be one.
It *appears* to be somebody who doesn't like Madam High Priestess. And it seems, from reading available news articles, that rather a large number of local Christians don't like her. I've not read of any Muslims calling for a fatwa beatdown on her.
It was tiamat that disagreed, not me. Don't know what she had in mind.
orionblamblam wrote:
> for most Wiccans I have met you take away their chocolate.
Uh... what? In English, please....
Fun as this is, I need to pull out for a bit
( Real Life and all of that)
BBL.
> Fun as this is, I need to pull out for a bit
Ummm... an excellent place for a joke. Anybody got one?
LOL! Good point. But I think you know what I mean.
>>for most Wiccans I have met you take away their chocolate. <<
LOL! Ya know, good call, there.
>>And "pagan" is one of those terms that gets batted around and is NOT synonymous with "Wiccan". <<
No, "pagan" is a general term meaning someone who does not worship the God of Abraham. Wicca is one pagan religion of very, very many. There is, of course, a natural dislike for a term designed to exclude someone, but many wiccans I know (most?) have actually used the term, surprisingly . And not in the way that people have identified themselves as "Yankee," "Queer," or "N*gger" just beCAUSE the word had been used as a slur. Some wiccans, however, treat "pagan" as if it were another sect, though; others add certain connotations to it; others *are* offended by it as it were a slur.
I use the term in the general sense: to describe non-Abrahamic religions, meaning a much broader term than wiccan.
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