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Dear Old Pagans… (Inciting a Riot)

There’s a meme that’s getting started in the pagan blogosphere in which one writes a letter to young pagans, exasperatedly begging them to quit their foolish ways. It seems to have begun here and is propagated by the Daily Pagan News tumblr. While many of these points are things I’ve talked about in the past, and many of them I agree with, I feel they are more universal than aimed directly at the young. Also, there were several points, on both posts, that I had to go back and make sure this post was about ‘young’ pagans, as I’ve only seen this behavior exhibited by the older folks in our community.

So, in the interest of fairness, and because it’s been a while since I’ve done one of my lovely lists, here is my message to “old” pagans (or pagans that think they’ve been around the witchy block a time or seven). Also, it might help if you read the two letters to Young Pagans first, as I reference their points. Ahem:

• Before you go getting high and mighty about telling the young witchy girl in her diaphanous garb to quit bleating Never Again the Burning Times, why don’t you figure out where she got that information? The pagan community has Sheeple, too, and they had to learn from someone. So, Old Pagan, how about you make sure that all the folks in YOUR age/experience group stop teaching this garbage, and the young folks will stop parroting it back as though it were gospel.

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