This is a post I made in June and never finished
Lately I’ve been noticing a small but growing number of people calling themselves “godslaves”. These individuals are generally of a mystic bent, Norse or Hellenic, and have a strong devotion to a particular deity, to the point where they see themselves as being “owned” by [...]
Archive for the ‘Ethics’ Category
Slaves to the Gods?
Posted in Class, Ethics, Pagan Community, Race/Ethnicity, Theology, tagged bdsm, freedom, humanism, philosophy, slavery on October 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A Hawk Wind Blows
Posted in Ethics, Nature/Ecology, Pagan Community, tagged birds, ecology, Ethics, law, nature, poaching, totemism, travel on September 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I just returned last night from a weekend trip with my partner to the Iron Range and Duluth, Minnesota. We had a wonderful time biking on the Mesabi Trail (20 miles in total!) through the deep pine and birch forests and saw a painted turtle on the trail. Yesterday in Duluth we went up to [...]
On the Value of Democracy
Posted in Ethics, Pagan Community, Politics/Culture, tagged democracy, leadership, politics on June 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Democracy, the revolutionary idea of choosing ones’ own leaders as a community, originated in polytheistic societies. The most obvious of course being Athens, Greece but Iceland had the Althing, and the Founding Fathers of the United States took inspiration from the Iroquois Confederacy in forming a system of government and writing the Constitution. Now, technically, [...]
Sources of Values
Posted in Ethics, Unitarian Universalism on June 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I just found out that June was declared International Pagan Values Month, unfortunately rather close to leaving on vacation. Ethics is something I enjoy writing, discussing and debating about, so I’ll see if I can squeeze in a couple posts before I leave.
First, I thought I’d take a step back and look at the sources [...]
Christo-Paganism
Posted in Christianity, Concepts & Definitions, Ethics, Pagan Community on May 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
For some time now, I’ve been noticing a growing number of people calling themselves Christo-Pagans, Christian Witches and the like, combining these religions in some way. Judeo-Pagans and Jewitches have also been popping up. While many Western Pagans draw inspiration from Buddhism and Hinduism, Eastern religions give themselves a lot more easily to syncretism than [...]
Squirrel Trouble
Posted in Ethics, Nature/Ecology on April 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m going to step back from the Robin Artisson controversy and write about a less serious topic from everyday life, though one with spiritual/ethical implications.
Awhile back, I discovered a hole in a mesh window screen on the enclosed sun porch in one of the upstairs bedrooms. A squirrel had made a nest in between the [...]
Response to Artisson’s Conversion Essay
Posted in Christianity, Ethics, Interfaith, Pagan Community, Theology, tagged conversion on August 13, 2008 | 20 Comments »
This is a response to Robin Artisson’s Essay- The System and Psychology of Conversion
Go read it before this post. It is an essay about Pagans/Heathens/polytheists who convert back to Christianity or Judaism and the possible factors that make them more likely to convert. First, I have to give Artisson credit for admitting his biases up [...]
