What is and is Not Ruining Paganism

answersfromvanaheim:

Things that are not ruining Paganism, a brief list:

• solitary practitioners
• pop occulture (pop culture Paganism + pop culture magic)
• godspouses
• teenage girls
• newcomers
• Christopagans and Christian witches
• feminism (except TERFs)

Things that are ruining Paganism, a brief list

• every “-ism” ever (sexism, racism, ableism and so on and so forth)
• a lack of good quality beginner resources as well as “201″ and more advanced resources
• religious cultures that eat young people alive for “dabbling” rather than encouraging them (as much as the law allows)
• cultural appropriation, including what it is and why it is a problem
• a staunch refusal to accommodate others in the name of “tradition” (this could be anything from grumbling about people using electric candles to grumbling because someone said Freyr was bi, see the point about “-isms” above).
• anti-intellectualism and anti-science attitudes (science sees the world as dead matter, if you heat your food it will become pure carbon, modern medicine is terrible and awful and if you need it you are terrible and awful) as well as “quantum physics proves magic is real”