I was surfing the web today to my usual pagan sites and looking at the pagan emails that I receive on a daily basis, (at my request, I might add) and I was struck by the overwhelming amount of hatred spewing out. The intolerance for other Religions, paths, and faiths coming from a "religion" that itself decries intolerance, the mantra from the pagan community is "Why can't they leave us alone to follow whatever God or Gods we please". If this is what we truely believe, then should we not stop ridiculing others for their beliefs. I am refering in this instance to the holidays, christmas, hannaka, Kwanza and maybe others that I am not familiar with. When you get down to brass tacks each one of these holidays was and is made up by us, Yule pre-dates all of the others, but does that make it any more important? Why should anyone be left out at this time of year? No holiday should take precedence over another, let all celebrate in whatever manner they wish without being laughed at and mocked.
It is ignorance which leads to profanation. Men ridicule what they do not properly understand.
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