http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2007/09/susan-sarandon-out-of-broom-closet.html A modern Pagan perspective Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2007/09/susan-sarandon-out-of-broom-closet.html#comment-1328 Anonymous Thu, 20 Sep 2007 03:07:00 +0000 http://patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2007/09/susan-sarandon-out-of-the-broom-closet.html#comment-1328 I just saw her on The Daily Show, and was fascinated by her choice in earrings. I couldn't quite make it out, but it looked like a representation of an ancient feminine sculpture. Now that I read this blog post, I am more convinced it was at least a feminist representation and possibly a pagan one - likely Wiccan.Coolness :) I just saw her on The Daily Show, and was fascinated by her choice in earrings. I couldn’t quite make it out, but it looked like a representation of an ancient feminine sculpture. Now that I read this blog post, I am more convinced it was at least a feminist representation and possibly a pagan one – likely Wiccan.Coolness

]]> http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2007/09/susan-sarandon-out-of-broom-closet.html#comment-1327 Barbara Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:29:00 +0000 http://patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2007/09/susan-sarandon-out-of-the-broom-closet.html#comment-1327 It doesn't mean she's a Wiccan or Pagan, though. Until someone claims a religion I don't think we should make assumptions. I've been mistaken for a Pagan, just because I declare no religion and will defend them all (except for the extremist fundamentalist terrorist types). But I'm a free agent, spiritually speaking, and I sometimes say "She" and sometimes "He" -- mainly because it matters not to me -- though I tend to prefer "She." But if there is one Universal Power that individual deities are just facets of (as in my personal, unnamed belief set), is It a he or a she? Does it matter? I think of the planet as She, because She's the Great Mother of us all, at least physically speaking, and in that same pattern I could see the Sun as a He, but I usually just call the Sun the Sun. Really it's all just dicing words and upper and lower case (and genders), isn't it? Does one's belief set have to have a name?In any case, I like Susan Sarandon, because I see her as a person with enough fire in her to not put up with idiocy or abuse of power just to gain approval from anyone, and I am happy to see any celebrity, or anyone else for that matter, take a stand against the war. Thanks for posting this, because I hadn't noticed a mention of her anywhere recently. It doesn’t mean she’s a Wiccan or Pagan, though. Until someone claims a religion I don’t think we should make assumptions. I’ve been mistaken for a Pagan, just because I declare no religion and will defend them all (except for the extremist fundamentalist terrorist types). But I’m a free agent, spiritually speaking, and I sometimes say “She” and sometimes “He” — mainly because it matters not to me — though I tend to prefer “She.” But if there is one Universal Power that individual deities are just facets of (as in my personal, unnamed belief set), is It a he or a she? Does it matter? I think of the planet as She, because She’s the Great Mother of us all, at least physically speaking, and in that same pattern I could see the Sun as a He, but I usually just call the Sun the Sun. Really it’s all just dicing words and upper and lower case (and genders), isn’t it? Does one’s belief set have to have a name?In any case, I like Susan Sarandon, because I see her as a person with enough fire in her to not put up with idiocy or abuse of power just to gain approval from anyone, and I am happy to see any celebrity, or anyone else for that matter, take a stand against the war. Thanks for posting this, because I hadn’t noticed a mention of her anywhere recently.

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