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IWD ficlet no 4 - DS9 (Winn Adami)

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angevin2.

Title: Gifts of the Prophets
Fandom: Star Trek - DS9 (pre-canon)
Rating: G
Words: 384.

( Why Winn enjoys being Vedek - and why she sometimes doesn't )

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I wonder if the Grauniad's reporting on paganism is as full of holes as its account of the C of E

Paganism 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).

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I can think of one or two people on my flist who may be interested in this Guardian article on a black woman rabbi from the US, Alysa Stanton, and the difficulties she has faced as a convert and a black woman, both from her birth community, white Christians, and her new community - but also the positives.

Gruaniad spell-checking strikes again, though: She was attracted to it she says because Judaism encompasses not just religion but also spiritualism, social justice and community.

I'm not Jewish, but I'm pretty sure they mean 'spirituality'. Though it also makes me rather sad, because Christianity encompasses all these thing (well, not spiritualism), which suggests how often the church is bad at doing what it's supposed to (though every conversion is complicated, and I would put money on there being a bigger theological issue that journalists generally don't want to get into. Such as, say, the Trinity, or the divinity of Christ).