Pagan Centered Podcast – Episode 62 – The Inaccessability of Paganism (Part 1 of 3)

2010
01.07

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6:00 Amber has girlscouts visit the museum
9:29 Abandonment of children by Pagan clergy – handling children in Pagan religions
13:00 Difference between a sit down faith and a faith that involves practice
14:00 Missing the comfort of church in a religion of personal responsibility
15:00 Neopagan religions are too young to have a precedent for handling children.
16:15 What neopagan religions are there other than Wicca?
17:00 Neopaganism vs. Reconstructionism
18:40 Crazy ACLU people
19:26 Case Study of involving children in Pagan activities: Mystics Cove Pagan Network
24:10 Case Study: Hoster X growing up in a half-Christian half-Pagan household where Coven came first, before biological family.
27:00 Covens look at nothing but age, and push out children that outperform the adults
28:30 Letting children grow into their gifts instead of parents trying to forcefully awaken such things.
30:38 A Wiccan dedicating her children to different gods, while complaining about being baptized as a child
32:00 Children remembering past lives
32:55 Covens going overboard with the rules and being angry that people don’t want to be naked in front of strangers because it’s all about the love.
34:10 Do covens that claim to be able to do things solitaries haven’t done really have more of an issue about being out of touch with the Pagan community?
35:30 Funny story about skyclad ritual and firefighters
37:45 Lack of communication between Pagans and non-Pagans on a religious level
38:30 Separation of religious work from personal life
40:15 Why not talk to people that want to talk to you about religious issues if it’s part of the conversation already?
46:30 People lack confidence in their beliefs