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What do atheists think of pagans and wiccans
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RE: What do atheists think of pagans and wiccans
September 10, 2022 at 4:27 pm (This post was last modified: September 10, 2022 at 4:28 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
(September 10, 2022 at 1:57 pm)Woah0 Wrote: And what do you think would happen if someone tried to hex you by doing one of those rituals?

I don’t think of Wiccans and pagans any differently from how I think of anyone else (I appreciate how rarely they knock on my door, though).

The only person who ever put a curse on me - as far as I know - was a Catholic. The difference it made in my life was not readily apparent.

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RE: What do atheists think of pagans and wiccans
September 10, 2022 at 4:53 pm
An ex of my middle child was raised Wiccan. My boss was raised as a Mennonite but now identifies as pagan. Can't really say it matters to me one bit.
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RE: What do atheists think of pagans and wiccans
September 10, 2022 at 5:22 pm (This post was last modified: September 10, 2022 at 5:23 pm by Angrboda.)
You don't find a lot of Wiccans and Pagans coming here and shitting on our doorstep, do you?
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RE: What do atheists think of pagans and wiccans
September 10, 2022 at 5:44 pm (This post was last modified: September 10, 2022 at 5:49 pm by emjay.)
I just think of them basically as Hippies and don't give them much thought beyond that. As for hexes and curses, I don't believe in them as anything other than self-fulfilling prophecies and perceptions; it tells you a lot if the only way something like that 'works' is if the victim/target is aware of it.
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RE: What do atheists think of pagans and wiccans
September 11, 2022 at 12:16 am
(September 10, 2022 at 2:30 pm)AFTT47 Wrote:
(September 10, 2022 at 2:23 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: Just another flavor of woo......

But without the political power. As such, they are mostly harmless and I don't concern myself about them in the least.

The OP will be relevant when pagans and wiccans are 70% of the population and many of them actively try to influence laws so that the rest of us have to live our lives in accordance with their beliefs.

Invest in goats if that happens.
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RE: What do atheists think of pagans and wiccans
September 11, 2022 at 1:18 pm
I often prefer the morality of pagans and wiccans to that of christians, but they are just another form of superstition as far as I can see.
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RE: What do atheists think of pagans and wiccans
September 11, 2022 at 1:27 pm
Yeah, some of em..though, in truth, alot of them are atheists.
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RE: What do atheists think of pagans and wiccans
September 12, 2022 at 12:55 pm
Pagans and Wiccans are fine. For many of them it is more about recognizing the connection with the natural world than about anything supernatural. Any supernatural aspects are all woo, but there is a lot of woo in New Age and Christianity as well.
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RE: What do atheists think of pagans and wiccans
September 12, 2022 at 3:38 pm
(September 10, 2022 at 1:57 pm)Woah0 Wrote: And what do you think would happen if someone tried to hex you by doing one of those rituals?

I appreciate that pagans don't knock on my door to share the good news about Baphomet (or whomever).
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RE: What do atheists think of pagans and wiccans
September 12, 2022 at 3:41 pm
They make great kindling.

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