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from: Cinnabari
date: 2003-07-01 07:25:26
subject: RE: Re: [Calpagan] Glastonbury Temple Wiccans

> OK -- PS -- Wiccans are of many stripes -- and 
> British Wiccan are their OWN stripe, as you well know. Some of them are
> folklorests par excellence, and some are not. Let's keep those
> generalizations

Brit-trads, eclectics, fluffies... yes.  Many stripes, many flavors.  I know. 
No offense is meant, and I DID say I was generalizing as a possible reason why
the Glastonbury temple is co-opting Brigid's name and throwing about phrases
like 'The Goddess'.  Polytheists don't tend to use the overarching 'The
Goddess' phrase...

> The bigger thing is this, I would *never* fail to use a
> capital
> in Christian, Jewish or Zoroastrian, please afford me the same curtesy. Wicca
> is a proper noun and identifies a religion that has a large number of
> practioners these days. Lezlie
>

  Okay.  Gods forbid you assume I missed a shift key, eh, or give me
the benefit of typo-doubt... 

darkelf, don't look for offense where none is intended


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