Brilliant Article on Polytheology

01/15/2013

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P. Sufenus V. Lupus, founder of Ekkelsia Antinoou has written a brilliant, absolutely brilliant article on a disturbing trend that I and other polytheists have been seeing in the Pagan demographic of late. I myself recently ran into this Pagan as 'nature worshipper' instead of 'Gods worshipper' (as our ancestors would have understood their practices), much to my irritation and having worked extensively in the interfaith community I can attest to the difficulties any polytheist (who is unwilling to embrace sloppy pantheism) will find there. Read this, it's a brilliant article on polytheology: 


http://www.patheos.com//Pagan/Bringing-Back-Gods-Sufenas-Virius-Lupus-01-11-2013.html
 


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c
01/18/2013 19:56

Thought you might want to be aware of this:

http://therioshamanism.com/2013/01/16/a-caution-against-pagan-fundamentalism/

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Galina
01/18/2013 20:17

thank you. I disagree with that article on most of its fundamental points. I think Paganism very much should be about the Gods. I think that focus, especially to what our ancestors understood as Paganism is its core and if you push the Gods out of it, you're doing it wrong. Or rather you're doing something, just not Paganism.

I also think the desire to have paganism without Gods is a matter of egotism. making it all about me me me and what feels good rather than anything approximating devotion.

that is not to say that animism isn't part of Paganism, it is, but again with animism there's the sense of sentience spirits filling the world.

If holding the future of a tradition as something deserving of care and mindful cultivation is fundamentalism, so be it.

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