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Saxon Of The Fells's avatar

Beautiful essay. One can tell that most Christians who speak disparagingly about paganism have never read a word of Alain de Benoist or Jonathan Bowden.

I look forward to reading more of your stuff!

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Henry Solospiritus's avatar

I can feel that! To put it, perhaps too succinctly, I am weary of transcendence! My brain and heart hurt having to grind through all that theological density! The emanation of the divine, right here by my side, feels right!

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James J. O'Meara's avatar

"Her argument is that "in their natural state, all human societies are pagan or polytheistic" and that "when monotheism fades, society naturally reverts to forms of paganism." If only that were true!"

Beneath the pavement, the beach -- Situationist graffito, Paris 1967

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Korpijarvi's avatar

How I wish I could read this. The white serifed font/wide column length on black makes it impossible.

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Alexander Raynor's avatar

I've never had complaints about that before. What do you think works better in terms of background color and font?

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Korpijarvi's avatar

Regular traditional book page. Black on white with fonts appropriate to column width. I know a lot of people don't have problems with it, judging from the amount of it online.

Not asking you to change it for me, given I can always read the pieces in e-mail. Here on your SS reading comments and making comment edits are the problem--highlighting for correction, for instance, is dark indigo on black). I've followed your and others' ENR stuff a long time, and always appreciate more, so thank you for your work and sharing, as well as kind response.

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Scythe's avatar

"Paganism refers to the indigenous religions of Europe"

Then why don't you call yourselves after one of them, instead of adopting a SLUR as your identity?

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Alexander Raynor's avatar

The term pagan was originally used by the Roman military. It was Christians who took the term and altered its meaning.

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Scythe's avatar

Still can't answer the question?

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