mostly off-topic (was Re: Setting the record straight...)

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> Oh jeez, off the top of my head I can't think of any single thing

that

> Pagans agree upon. It's a serious question whether the category

actually

> holds any meaning at all. Broadly speaking, Paganism usually has

something

> to do with reclaiming, reconstructing, or reconnecting with those

> theological ideas, practices and deity forms that The Church (the

> preReformation political body, not to be confused with Christianity)

> actively worked to supress.

* : My fault, but I don't clearly see a difference between the

Church and Christianity (or Christendom). Do you mean to say that

Christianity could have done with the Church? And in this case, that

it would have absorbed rather than eliminated Paganism? Did the

Church come after Christianity, just like an excrescency, or a

tumour, in the expression of ?

* And what is the difference between a heathen and a pagan? Is there

a historical point of time when a heathen becomes a pagan? Say,

before Christianity you were a heathen, afterwards you are a pagan.

JC

In practice this endeavor leads to all sorts of

> things that do not fall easily under a single rubric. I use the

term mainly

> to indicate the direction in which my spirituality lies in relation

to the

> Big Three monotheisms, not as a reaction, but simply as a way to

orient the

> discussion. The label really doesn't say much about my personal

practice at

> all.

>

> YR

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> mostly off-topic (was Re: Setting the record

straight...)

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> This one and your previous post - both very interesting. I wonder

if

> there are noticeable differences between Pagans. For instance, one

> Pagan may believe in the existence of an immortal soul, whereas

> another won't believe it, and a third one may be indifferent to

it.

> Do you all Pagans hold the same beliefs (however strange it is to

> talk about beliefs in terms of Paganism)?

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> José

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