Celebrating Valentine’s Day and Other Pagan Holidays
Published February 11, 2011Valentine’s Day falls into the same category as Easter, Christmas, and the other special days of remembrance that Christians celebrate. They are all derived from pagan culture. The Greeks had Cupid, the little guy with the arrows aimed at lovers’ hearts, and they had Estre, the goddess of fertility and spring, and there was the German Tanabam celebrating the evergreen tree, and so on. If we chose celebrations by whether they are pagan or Christian, we’d be left with little to celebrate if the Christian standard was upheld. But – is this a good idea…I mean to ash-can the year’s [...]
read moreTaking the Pagan Out of the Man
Published March 16, 2010Let’s face it…we’re pagans. Some will object to the title, some are proud of it, and some just don’t care. The same percentages range across the human population on most subjects. This in itself is a mark of paganism. The pagan looks around at his world, makes some deductions and then elevates his conclusions to the realm of truth. In other words, he creates his own reality, not based upon the objective facts, but based upon what he feels. This means that he really doesn’t care what you think. Don’t confuse him with the facts. Paganism perceives the world to [...]
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