Pagan Rants

"You know, for people who practice an 'earth religion', it's funny how much time you spend on the computer." - Overheard in the Ask A Witch chat

Most of the essays here are reflections on life in the broader Pagan community. Some are quiet meditations on the resurgence of ancient traditions, and our place in a modern world, others are loud denunciations of the hocum, bigotry, and rampant stupidity I see seeping into our community. A few articles have little or nothing to do with Paganism - but I couldn't find anywhere else to put them, so they ended up here. I hope you enjoy all of them however.

A Temple of Words: Essays culled from five years of "Sannion's Sanctuary" by H. Jeremiah Lewis

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Includes several essays never previously published, as well as the best of the Sanctuary!

Table of Contents

Every time you perpetuate a flame-war, you make baby Zagreus cry 4-16-06
A Rant on Sin Within Paganism 4-29-05
Spiritual Submission The beauty of submitting to the Gods 4-29-05
I Want Mine Bloody On the value of animal sacrifice 4-29-05
Bush on Wicca Now, is that Wicca or wicker?10-25-03
Where were the Gods on 9.11? Does evil invalidate the existence of the Gods? 9-11-02
Defending Reconstructionism My defense against the Fluffy backlash 8-13-02
Sannion's Scriptorium Some of my opinionated book reviews UPDATED 6-12-02
Do we really want a Paganism without Christianity? I think the two faiths enrich each other 5-10-02
Play I revel with the winds 4-23-02
My Last Wiccan Rant Wherein I banish the specter of Wicca from life, for good 4-17-02
Moral Cowardice and Pagan Hermeneutics Why I think "Judge not, lest ye be judged" is total crap 3-23-02
Is Paganism Anti-Christian? Defining ourselves by our opposition to something leaves us within its power 2-22-02
Another Case of Wiccan 'tolerance' How Wiccan bigotry hurt a friend 10-22-01
One Month Later A look back on life since the terrorist attack 10-15-01
Wrestling with Shadows How a WWF special helped me find consolation 9-17-01
Closets are for Clothes A call for everyone to be an out and open Pagan 6-27-01
That Damn P-Word! My ambivalence regarding the term "Pagan" 5-16-01
Urban Pagans Our cities are sacred too 5-09-01
Magic and Paganism Discusses how not all Pagans are magic-users 4-10-01
Weaving the Web An exploration of some ways that the Internet has affected Paganism 3-17-01
A Conversation about Wicca My thoughts on Wicca and Wiccans 3-04-01
Some Questions about the Bible Is the Bible really Inerrant and Infallible? 12-24-00
Does the Bible Really Condemn Us? Examines what the Bible thinks of Pagans and Witches 12-12-00