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UrsusofUNRV wrote:I call myself a classical polytheist and that usually gets the message across.
The fact that "pagan" may have been used as a slur by Christians doesn't bother me. What bothers me is that "pagan" in the modern era is a shorthand for a wide array of modern mystical and occult movements with which I have very little in common.
C.AeliusEricius wrote:Language is to communicate. I may periphrase along various lines but I try to use the best words fro the situation at hand. I sue the word Pagan at times. Or Roman Pagan to be more specific. I say my relgion is Religio Romana. I am what I am and my Deities know it too.
In some ways "Pagan" is like the word "Queer". There is a very militant group that calls themselves "Queer Nation". In your face and live with it. Mostly it is only in [trying] to communicate with "Christians" that I think of using the word. Though as the word for non-Abrahamic relgionists, well, what other is there taht describes all of us, including the dear Wiccans as well as the Santerians?
Yes, Pagan is a slur word, especially from Evangelical Christians (whom Marius once dubbed "Fundumbs"). To them, everybody but them are Pagans. Including the western Catholic Pope, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, and all. (I woner how far outside their own parish their own circle extends.)
[p.s. I really am very tolerant. I'm even in a mixed marriage.]
in pace Deorum.
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