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11  7:53am 23/12/05        
Strip Tease For Me, Baby / Tie Me To The Bed, Dear
Gah! My brain just hurt...

The definition of a pagan is a person who worships a partheon of gods instead of one God. So in the broad definition of it, I guess modern day witches fall under that category because they worship a male and female deity who control nature. But wiccans, which is the recognized name of the religion where the followers call themselves witches and warlocks, are not so much involved with them. You get some of the followers who jump all over the place, grabbing gods from different heritages and cultures rather willy nilly. You'll get some Roman ones, or Greek, with a dash of Celtic and Norse mythology thrown in there as well. The modern day version of witchcraft isn't really witchcraft as most people think of it any more anyways. If it's occultic and mythical, and just plain weird and cool, they'll snatch it up and start using it. I've only met one Wiccan who treated the religion with any real respect for the heritage of it and stuck to that, instead of just throwing every thing into one melting pot.

Druids, on the other hand, are strictly celtic in origin. England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland have all produced evidence of druidic activities in archeology digs. If you know someone calling themselves a druid and their using other gods from other mythologies, I wouldn't really listen to what their saying.

And just as you seem to think all Christians have their eyes closed and fingers in their ears, not every one whose is Wiccan or calls themselves Pagan are any more enlightened just because their not Christians.
12  6:08pm 23/12/05        
a swell guy.
The point I'm trying to say is that the Christians need to look outside of their little world, as I have for the past two years, and actually learn where their holidays, holy days, actually came from.
why ? what the hell does that actually accomplish ? what relevance does actually have to anyone's daily existence ? some people have more important shit to do than muddle through a bunch of dry historical bullshit on the apocryphal mythology of christianity (or in your case watch a history channel special), like go to their fucking jobs.
so he's posting again.
cough, cough.
13  6:38pm 23/12/05        
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Because, if Christians do that, we can keep another 'Crusade' from happening. Plus, it's very enlightening.
14  6:56pm 23/12/05        
Commonwealth Patriot&lt;br>Get your damn hands off me,&lt;br>you filthy Kuati drunk!
Enlightenment is overrated.
15  7:03pm 23/12/05        
Kneel Before Zod!
What the hell are Christians going to Crusade about regarding the holidays?
16  8:03pm 23/12/05        
a swell guy.
lack of paid vacation.
so he's posting again.
cough, cough.
17  8:34pm 23/12/05        
Back with a Vengeance
Go stop the Islamic people from their holy Jihad, then we'll talk.
18  9:20pm 23/12/05        
Kneel Before Zod!
lol @ Yossarian.. probably.
19  11:54pm 23/12/05        
He only watches soccer for the riots
speaking of christians and crusaids, go to google and type in dominionist and read that shit. Creepy!
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20  12:40am 24/12/05        
Azaka
From this point on, I don't think another crusade can happen. Even if the Catholic Church declared something, in this modern world few would really act on it.
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