This Pagan Life
As mentioned in the first Pagan Carnival famous Yippie Paul Krassner has written about his experiences among the Pagans at the Starwood Festival for The Nation magazine.
“Neo-Paganism may well be a canary in the culture-wars coal mine. Child custody battles are taking place in courts equating witchcraft with Satanism (and therefore child endangerment), people are losing their jobs, trumped-up charges are leveled against witches who come “out of the broom closet.” There are now 130 members of Congress who are born-agains, and a President who thinks he’s the end result of an Intelligent Designer. As governor of Texas, Bush was part of a movement to deny access to religious facilities for soldiers at Fort Hood who were Pagan. He declared that Wicca wasn’t “a real religion.” A real religion, of course, believes that there was a pair of dinosaurs on Noah’s Ark.”
An interesting outsider view from a counter-culture insider.
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