4 Apr
2011
4 Apr
'11
6:34 p.m.
From: feedle at feedle.net
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 4:56 PM
> Since you have pbulically statesd that you
don't like dealing with
> 'heathen atheists', I will assume that you don't want techncial
> advioce from heathen agnostics eitehr. I will therefore refrain
> from offering any.
As somebody who both identifies as one of those two,
I'm wondering
exactly how you can be both.. unless you're referring to "heathen"
as "one who lives upon the heath" (ie. a "country-dweller").
However, most of my friends who identify as "heathen" are certainly
NOT athiests, and most of the athiests I've known would distance
themselves (religiously) from modern Neopagan heathens.
Tossing another log on the fire...
Although Oxford does not back me up on this, I was taught when younger
that *heathens* belonged to no organized religion, though they often
recognized (small) gods as influential in their lives. *Pagans*, on
the other hand, engaged in formal worship of major gods (or a single
non-Semitic-origin god), with organized priesthoods, etc. usw. k.t.l.
The modern neo-pagans certainly fit the latter description. The Ya-Ya
Sisterhood fits the former.
Rich Alderson
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