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Filed under: Uncategorized — Abbey at 7:50 pm on Thursday, November 10, 2011

Is Pagan a religion? Last week in class we discussed, after reading a piece, if we would consider Pagan as a religion. Well as a class we decided that it was a religion and we have pretty good reasons to back that up. First of all we agreed that Paganism has rituals.Those rituals aren’t daily or weekly but they are seasonally. The main ones include passing of the seasons and sexually rituals. Before I explain anymore I need to say that Pagan is a Goddess based religion. The ultimate reality in Paganism is the Goddess and her son . There is a myth about a Goddess which represents the Earth and a Horned God which represents the seasons. The central community of Paganism is women.



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   Kati Steffen

November 15, 2011 @ 6:05 pm

I found it interesting that the class decided that this was in fact a religion. There are many things that support it, but also many that don’t, for example the fact that there isn’t a text to this religion. If there isn’t a text, and the myths and stories are only told through word, then through the years the stories could get changed on accident. It they do get changed then no one will ever know the real story because it was never written down.

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   Kelsie

November 29, 2011 @ 10:45 pm

I do believe that what we decided in class is true and that Paganism can be considered a religion. Paganism has rite and rituals that are that the Goddess gives birth, keeps the baby, then marries it, and finally sacrifices it. This is representing the changing of the seasons. Paganism has an ultimate reality which is the Goddess and her son also known as earth or water (Gayo). There are myths and sacred story, the Dianic mysteries where she gives birth to herself and lives to give life to earth then dies when she gets old and go back into earth. Community is shown by all the friendships among the women. All of these give evidence that Paganism is a religion.

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