Day 11: What's Going on in the Pagan Community?

So I was thinking about what I wanted to talk about and I decided that this is going to be it. On another bloggers blog site he talked about the marginalization of Polytheists in the Pagan community. I'm a Polytheist, as I don't view the gods as Archetypes but as separate and real entities, and two years ago they had a discussion about Norse Myth and that, so far, has been the only non-magical thing that I've seen. If your going to be talking about nothing but things that don't appeal to non-magical pagans then your saying that those that don't do magic has nothing to listen to when they go to one of these events.

In-fact the only way that you can listen to anything that's non-magical, but connected to what your practices, is to go to a blot or a discussion held by a Polytheist group. In-fact a vast majority of people that go to pagan pride is those that practice magic, believe in archetypes, and believe the gods are like tools. There's nothing to offer to Polytheists. And I believe the reason is that they want Polytheists to feel excluded from pagan events, as they don't follow the 'earth based' nonsense that makes up most of the pagan community. 

Now I will say that there's nothing wrong with respecting the earth but I don't honor, or worship, the earth. I think that the pagan community needs to get their act together and start making Polytheists feel welcome at their events. Of course the fact that Polytheists don't consider themselves pagan might be another reason that they're not really wanted. However, that's the pagans problem and not mine.

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