Path: typhoon.sonic.net!not-for-mail Newsgroups: alt.magick.tyagi,alt.paranormal.spells.hexes.magic,alt.witchcraft,alt.lucky.w,alt.pagan,alt.religion.wicca Followup-To: alt.magick.tyagi,alt.pagan,alt.religion.wicca,talk.religion.misc,alt.religion.all-worlds Subject: Pantheon-of-the-Month Club? (was Re: Casting Spells) References: <9d1cded8.0203120501.1507ae41@posting.google.com> From: lorax666 Reply-To: spam@yronwode.com User-Agent: nn/6.6.0 Lines: 46 Message-ID: Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 09:26:39 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.201.242.18 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sonic.net X-Trace: typhoon.sonic.net 1016875599 208.201.242.18 (Sat, 23 Mar 2002 01:26:39 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 01:26:39 PST Xref: typhoon.sonic.net alt.magick.tyagi:31978 alt.paranormal.spells.hexes.magic:33734 alt.witchcraft:40003 alt.lucky.w:11210 alt.pagan:297757 alt.religion.wicca:520957 let's see, there's a god MOT whose name *also* starts with an 'M'! 50020323 happy kaos day! it's March, what god are we worshipping today? why of course, Kali! eballard@sas.upenn.edu (Eoghan Ballard): > ...scads of Neo-Celtic Neo-Pagan whatever wiccans .... > Why do you think so many of them are card carrying members > of the "Pantheon of the Month Club?" perhaps they want all the gods to be worshipped and want to see how worship differs from god to god. maybe they love to worship, but they are not cut-out for religious stability. I'll bet some are newbies to anything outside the religion of their youth, get mixed up in something about which they know little, and, enjoying it, later discover greener pastures in whatever they explore next. only prejudice against freedom of religion or assessments about the frivolty and fairweather attitude of people whom we know little complains of pantheism of the kind that enables every worshipper to pray as he or she sees fit. I don't think you're trying to do that, just venting off steam at what you perceive (possibly quite rightly) to be lack of dedication. the cementation of social strata by licensing priests and restriction of participant designation of worship-object (through monetary hurdles, or social pressure, for example), in other religious cultures tends to prevent the kind of power and autonomy an individual worshipper might have that would enable them to change gods of worship (and especially to define for oneself *how* that god ought be worshipped, rather than being told this by other religious. who can blame them after a youth full to the brim of ham and eggs, they begin to sample the cuisine from all manner of terran hotspots? arguably they are engaged in magic which religious might find objectionable (taking religious authority into their own hands, communing with the god directly rather than through people who apparently already worship the god). if it can be shown that they are doing it with intent to defame or wrest control from the people of the religions with which they "dally", then I can see the value of the complaint. otherwise the criticism seems misplaced and overharsh. let's have a GOD-OF-THE-DAY Club! isn't that what the Roman Catholics did with the saints? blessed beast! lorax666