#Paganism

Astro-Nerd

WarriorWitchN

The conversation around cultural appropriation has been so diluted by younger generations jumping onto social justice without a full synthesis of what it all means. It takes away from the

🌲☀️Western Brahmin☀️🌲🐄🌓⚡️🥚🥛

westernbrahmin

THREAD: The dilemma Athiests and Wiccans face when confronted with the true nature of Paganism 1.A lot of Athiests become interested in paganism due to the feeling of emptiness that

Dr Francis Young

DrFrancisYoung

Folklorists sometimes treat the association between St John the Baptist and the Summer Solstice as no more than an accident, an attempted Christianisation of pagan rites. I'm not convinced it's

Dr Francis Young

DrFrancisYoung

Often, what baffles people about ancient paganism is not its numinous spiritual connection with the natural world, but its unabashed pragmatism. Erecting an altar to the Genius of the latrine

Echoes of the Past!

EchoesofthePas1

Abrahamists will never understand pagan animism...to them, having been made in God's image, humans are at the top of evolutionary scale and animals are a thing which He made for

Dr Robin Douglas

Robin_C_Douglas

A recurring criticism of modern neopagan religion is that it is *inauthentic* - that it is an essentially modern movement with no real connection to the ancient indigenous paganisms of

Gareth Harney

OptimoPrincipi

1) After the ascendance of Christianity, which eventually became the Roman state religion in 380 AD, Augustine had some witty barbs on what he saw as the quaint ideas of

Caleb

Chinekenonso

CHRISTMAS IS DEMONIC!CHRISTMAS IS DEMONIC!CHRISTMAS IS DEMONIC!Only pagans celebrate ChristmasTHE ORIGIN OF CHRISTMAS[A Thread] Christmas is a pagan tradition that originates from ancient Babylonian paganism. It is the worship of

Gareth Harney

OptimoPrincipi

1/7) A powerful plea to the Emperor asking for religious tolerance ..coming not from a Christian, but from a Pagan - the senator Symmachus, petitioning the Emperor in 384 AD

DitzyDruid ~ author of River Magic

ditzydruid

I’m still struggling with my words about yesterday. It was disgraceful and disturbing in so many ways. To see a man bearing Heathen symbols there turns my stomach. It’s embarrassing.

Boston Paleocon

boston_paleocon

Meme still applies, thread: 1) The wignats, natsocs types are reddit tier in terms of the black sun/funny wheel. Not only does that meme keep the framing of the enemy

Jack Chanek

jack_of_wands

Today I learned that David Bowie was into the occult in the mid-70s. (I'm young. This isn't part of my generation's cultural consciousness.) I subsequently learned, to my horror, that

Timothy Isaiah Cho

tisaiahcho

Here's Bavinck on the importance of common grace in the Reformed tradition:"However much [the church] might be on its guard against paganism, it never despised or condemned natural life as

G. K. Chesterton

GKCdaily

I am firmly convinced that the Reformation of the 16th century was as near as any mortal thing can come to unmixed evil. Even the parts of the Reformation that

Arrikirri

arrikirri

So I was thinking about how a lot of pagans seem to think that all the myths are allegories and that literalism only occurs in Abrahamic religions. Now I could

Sentona 𓅃

sentona97

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐋𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜.Roman religion was very deeply connected to state and family, the destruction of

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