I suppose it's an actual religion,but it's not a traditional one, as much as it likes to present itself as such.
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Fri 2 Dec 2011, 19:29,
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Not really pagan is just a generic term for many many different agrarian based religions
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Fri 2 Dec 2011, 19:37,
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no I'm talking about Wicca.
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Fri 2 Dec 2011, 19:38,
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Ah yes Wicca is a neo-pagan religion trying to re-establish the old agrarian religions. Which is mostly guess work as most pagan religions were not documented.
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Fri 2 Dec 2011, 19:41,
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Where Wicca is concerned it's mostly making things up to fit in with what modern people would like to believe.If there were any real effort to properly reconstruct the ancient belief systems, from what little we do know of them, there would be arrests.
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Fri 2 Dec 2011, 19:48,
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True and there is a lot of bastardisation of pagan culture as told by Christiansso it really is impossible to come to any conclusions about paganism in terms of the ancient agrarian-religions that existed in this country. The best model of paganism is the Native North Americans which shows close ties with nature and close community spirit, but whether British pagans followed these ideals is open for speculation.
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Fri 2 Dec 2011, 19:55,
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there was no contact between Europeans and Native Americans so if there is any similarityit is entirely coincidental.
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Fri 2 Dec 2011, 19:59,
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