pagans don't proselytize....
"sermons" from the mound.....
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/sermonsfromthemound/2015/06/why-pagans-dont-evangelise/
then...
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/sermonsfromthemound/2015/06/things-pagans-care-about/
and.....
http://godsandradicals.org/2015/07/17/pagans-and-politics/
of course just throw in the phases "many pagans" or "most pagans" and one is off the hook....
and the classic rationale.... "religion and politics have been intertwined almost all of human history" in one of the replies to the last, and look where it got us, lol.
It's not about religion and politics, it's what comes after. the actual governance. There are no benign religions. None are free of dogma, despite the loud protestations of many.Religion has no business in governance, and government has no business in religion. It's dangerous to freedom. That is why certain persons made it the first amendment to their new country's constitution.
eh, but what would one expect from the writers of an outfit who is in the business of the "business to promote religion"
in the words of Leto II the god emperor.....
"Liberty and Freedom are complex concepts. They go back to religious ideas of Free Will and are related to the Ruler Mystique implicit in absolute monarchs. Without absolute monarchs patterned after the Old Gods and ruling by the grace of a belief in religious indulgence, Liberty and Freedom would never have gained their present meaning. These ideals owe their very existence to past examples of oppression. And the forces that maintain such Ideas will erode unless renewed by dramatic teaching or new oppressions."
Frank Herbert-Heretics of Dune
theocracy in any form is a poison to life force.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/sermonsfromthemound/2015/06/why-pagans-dont-evangelise/
then...
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/sermonsfromthemound/2015/06/things-pagans-care-about/
and.....
http://godsandradicals.org/2015/07/17/pagans-and-politics/
of course just throw in the phases "many pagans" or "most pagans" and one is off the hook....
and the classic rationale.... "religion and politics have been intertwined almost all of human history" in one of the replies to the last, and look where it got us, lol.
It's not about religion and politics, it's what comes after. the actual governance. There are no benign religions. None are free of dogma, despite the loud protestations of many.Religion has no business in governance, and government has no business in religion. It's dangerous to freedom. That is why certain persons made it the first amendment to their new country's constitution.
eh, but what would one expect from the writers of an outfit who is in the business of the "business to promote religion"
in the words of Leto II the god emperor.....
"Liberty and Freedom are complex concepts. They go back to religious ideas of Free Will and are related to the Ruler Mystique implicit in absolute monarchs. Without absolute monarchs patterned after the Old Gods and ruling by the grace of a belief in religious indulgence, Liberty and Freedom would never have gained their present meaning. These ideals owe their very existence to past examples of oppression. And the forces that maintain such Ideas will erode unless renewed by dramatic teaching or new oppressions."
Frank Herbert-Heretics of Dune
theocracy in any form is a poison to life force.