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tree_and_leafPaganism becoming mainstream (or at least less marginal).
Anyway, I found the article interesting, portraying as it does a kind of spirituality I don't know much about, though my instinctive reaction to the headline "We're all pagans now" is to say, speak for yourself, and to raise a slightly weary eyebrow at the theory that paganism was less mainstream ten years ago because that was before the Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter portrayed pagan spirituality in a positive light.† Um....
† I wouldn't dream of trying to argue that you can only enjoy LotR, or indeed find that it has spiritual/ theological resonance, if you're a catholic Christian, because that's obvious balls, but it's no more a pagan propaedeutic than it is an allegory about the Bomb. On the other hand, as I have observed when the Grauniad is writing about religious traditions which are my own, i.e. Anglicanism, they are pretty good at leaping to wrong conclusions based on half-understood observations of the situation (such as their persistent assumption that if you're an Anglo-Catholic, you're against the ordination of women).
Anyway, I found the article interesting, portraying as it does a kind of spirituality I don't know much about, though my instinctive reaction to the headline "We're all pagans now" is to say, speak for yourself, and to raise a slightly weary eyebrow at the theory that paganism was less mainstream ten years ago because that was before the Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter portrayed pagan spirituality in a positive light.† Um....
† I wouldn't dream of trying to argue that you can only enjoy LotR, or indeed find that it has spiritual/ theological resonance, if you're a catholic Christian, because that's obvious balls, but it's no more a pagan propaedeutic than it is an allegory about the Bomb. On the other hand, as I have observed when the Grauniad is writing about religious traditions which are my own, i.e. Anglicanism, they are pretty good at leaping to wrong conclusions based on half-understood observations of the situation (such as their persistent assumption that if you're an Anglo-Catholic, you're against the ordination of women).
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Date: 2009-06-23 01:34 pm (UTC)