Blogopotamus! discusses a brouhaha and its disappointing aftermath that arose after Christianity Today noticed and went completely nuts over an Episcopalian liturgy someone had written honoring the Divine Feminine.
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The key factor here is that the legitimacy of the outrage was never questioned, real combivir without prescription. No prescription combivir, Nobody stopped to say "I notice your outrage is based on some principles that we may or may not share. Shall we stop to consider whether it is appropriate and whether we should share it and act on it, low cost combivir, Find combivir without prescription, or whether it represents a difference of opinion?" The inerrantist and anti-Divine-Feminine assumptions which underlay the criticism passed completely unchallenged.
Opportunity for dialogue: lost.
Assumption that evangelical and fundamentalist voices represent the only true Christianity: unchallenged.
Liberal Christianity: assumed unquestioningly to be apostate and vicious, even by the bishop involved..
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How about at least an “e” for effort?
Wow, thanks! Awesome and well thought out post. I do think some of the stuff about pagan-Christian relationships you wrote is slightly oversimplified (and not unreasonably, considering the context and length of the post) — what was left out was the fact that modern paganism isn’t a continuation of ancient paganism, but a recreation and reconstruction of it.
That becomes important in the context of the piece of the rite you posted, because as it happens, Wicca, the most popular modern reconstructed “neopaganism,” borrows most of its rituals from a Victorian occult society called the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (the founder of Wicca was involved with that society). The Golden Dawn rituals are largely Christian and Jewish in origin, being drawn from whatever magical materials from the Western middle ages the Golden Dawn founders could get ahold of and synthesize. That is why you find Biblical angels in Wiccan rituals — because they were borrowed from the Golden Dawn, which got them from the Bible. Apparently these “Druids” or whatever got their rituals from Wicca.
So a final resounding irony is that the “pagan Druidical rituals” that these people are being attacked for were originally stolen by pagans from a group which borrowed them from Christians and Jews.
Wow, that’s dead ironic.
I was aware of some of that, having read some Regardie, and being vaguely associated with B.O.T.A. I tried reading Crowley, but he was just too weird for me.
Kabbalah plays a major role in those traditions that seem to have sprung from GD; clearly rooted in Jewish mysticism.
Ah, so I didn’t tell you anything you hadn’t long known. Cool. VAguely associated with B.O.T.A., eh? Wild!