Witchcraft, revisited - Page 2

babbelon · 01-30-2009, 05:53 PM

As a faithful Pagan I am truly offended at some of the stereotypical and biased rhetoric that has been passed in this topic! I find it quite disgusting to see people take amusement to what I believe to be a very serious case! Also, though there may be quite a few strange customs in the world there is no reason to make a mockery of my fellow pagans! NONE!

**Muddy** · 01-30-2009, 06:06 PM

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Originally Posted by babbelon

As a faithful Pagan I am truly offended at some of the stereotypical and biased rhetoric that has been passed in this topic! I find it quite disgusting to see people take amusement to what I believe to be a very serious case! Also, though there may be quite a few strange customs in the world there is no reason to make a mockery of my fellow pagans! NONE!

I was thinking the same thing. And what about the goat? I mean, goats have rights too!

Ferre · 01-30-2009, 06:07 PM

babbelon I think you miss the point.

We were making fun of a school administration that had suspended a pagan student (a child really) because the school administration believed that this girl was magically making teachers sick. We were making fun of the people who persecuted this child for witchcraft and ended up making fun of other extreme cases of superstition becoming absurd and sometimes even dangerous to others. I hardly see that as making fun of pagans, specially not because I myself could be legitimately labelled a pagan.

Ferre · 01-30-2009, 06:10 PM

I'm not a faithful pagan though, now I think of it.

Ferre · 01-30-2009, 06:11 PM

I could be a sceptical pagan, I got to think about that for a while.

Atom · 01-30-2009, 07:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Ferre

I'm not a faithful pagan though, now I think of it.

**Muddy** · 01-30-2009, 06:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Ferre

...I myself could be legitimately labelled a pagan.

Me too. A square pagan a round hole.

kristeejo · 01-30-2009, 06:03 PM

sometimes i forget how entertaining this place can be.

Ferre · 01-30-2009, 06:13 PM

Does Sceptical Neopaganism exist already?

**Muddy** · 01-30-2009, 06:17 PM

Ferre, are you familiar with this site? http://skepdic.com/

Ferre · 01-30-2009, 06:21 PM

No, but thanks, I bookmarked it. I have a plane to catch in a couple of hours and have to catch a bit of sleep before I go but I'll definitely have a look at it later.

Rchid29 · 01-30-2009, 11:01 PM

why, the article is almost a decade old. but witchcraft is one of humanity's oldest trick. i mean some people believe that it does exist and others are still very skeptical, and a few are transforming it into a satire.

Ferre · 02-01-2009, 09:05 AM

From where I'm looking at it most of them transform it unwillingly into satire.

**Muddy** · 02-01-2009, 10:31 AM

Hi Ferre, how was your plane ride?

Ferre · 02-01-2009, 11:23 AM

Was ok, I just hopped over the Dover channel (a 45 minutes flight) for a couple of hours and was back home in the evening. I learned during the years to pay a little extra for airline company's VIP boarding services that most of them offer, so I also avoid he hassle of waiting at airports and such.