Constructing "Faith" Part 1

Conflict

I discuss the importance of conflict and criticize the pagan community for not being critical.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• druid
• druidry
• druidism
• pagan
• neopagan
• paganism
• philosophy
• humanities
• dialectic
• reason

[poetswolf1985]

"The unexamined life is not worth living" -Socrates

"He who does not examine life lives most beautifully." -Nietzsche

[floydianworld]

You want to deny the *essence* of Paganism, fine that's your choice.

[fiacharrey]

No, it's a matter of not being an idiot. Something which you apparently have a problem with. I can't help whatever weird delusions you suffer from, but try picking up a dictionary sometime.

[floydianworld]

It's a matter of honesty, something which you (and most other Pagans who are too busy being obfuscators) don't have. Paganism is a Matriarchal, Proto-Feminist, Goddess-based religion. They are the facts. Deal with it.

[floydianworld]

From a Pagan poster named Goddess Worshipper on a newspaper comment section:

"It is no wonder women are drawn to the ancient religions where the true worth and position of the sacred feminine is known and revered.

Women are the centre of creation. They nurture our young and there is a bond between mother and child that no man can replicate.

The ancients understood this. The planet Venus was seen as feminine and worshipped as the principal goddess."

[fiacharrey]

I know you aren't talking about segments, but you are wrong otherwise. Do you really think our ancient Pagan ancestors were any of those things?

[floydianworld]

"The word patriarch literally means "the father who rules." Therefore, a patriarchal religion ruled by fathers - either ultimate father (God) or his masculine representatives here on Earth (such as priest, bishops, rabbis, or popes). Incidentally, a matriarch is a mother who rules, so a matriarchal religion is orientated towards the authority of a Goddess and her priestesses.

For pagans, earth is our mother and our Goddess."

[floydianworld]

Yeah fiacharrey you're not fooling anyone, you're just being a tit. Those who admit the Matriarchal nature of Paganism are being honest, you're being an obfuscator.

From A Complete Idiot's Guide to Paganism by Carl McColman

"Pagans realize that Mother Earth/Nature is the ghostly survival of the great Goddess who our ancestors revered as Earth herself. For pagans, reviving Goddess worship and rejuvenating our nature as the the Goddess is a central part of spirituality."

[floydianworld]

I'm not talking about "segments"; I'm talking about the essense of Paganism. It is Matriarchal, animalistic and naturist/environmentalist in essence.

[fiacharrey]

I don't know where you are getting your information from, but it is way off the mark. Yes, there is a segment of the modern Neo-Pagan community that your assertions may apply to, but not all of it, and certainly not to actual, historical Paganism.