sarchasm wrote:
> "Day Brown" <daybrown@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> The wiccan/pagan usenet lists seem to have as much ad hominum as
>> everywhere else. In contrast to the original Native European tradition,
>> but completely in keeping with Christian practice.
> The original "native europeans", (who migrated in from elsewhere), never
> insulted anyone? The courtesy of the germanic and other local tribes
was no
> doubt renowned far and wide around the fires of the equally fictitious
> female rulers of the time.
Unlike the Christians and Moslems, they didnt claim to have a religion
that everyone on earth should follow. What your tribe did was your
business.
Shakespeare picked up on this in his play on Caesar, in which the
general says:"You will have to forgive the man Mercutio; he is a
barbarian who thinks the customs of his tribe are the laws of Nature."
Everyone migrated in from elsewhere. What is your point? You wanna trip
them out for displacing the Neanderthal?
Gibbon re****ted that when Polemus circulated his criticism of well known
pagan prophets and clerics, people were just appalled. Only Christians
did that sort of thing.
We all have to start someplace, and unfortunately some bring their
Christian sensibilities with them trying to recover their Native
European spiritual traditions, which I often refer to as "Aryan", as
part of my effort to recover the original use of the term before the
Nazis redefined it. I dont see any reason to go by the Nazi usage.
JP Mallory, a competent archeologist and author, produced "In Search of
the Indo-Europeans", which, before Nazism would have been called "In
Search of the Aryans". And rather than call the reconstructed language
"Aryan", they need to use the politically correct term
"Proto-Indo-European". I dont worry about political correctness on
usenet, and that upsets some posters. Who call me names.
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