Comments on: Syracuse Gets a Pagan Chaplain and other Pagan News of Note

By: The Wild Hunt » Updates: UK Census, Romanian Witch Tax, James Arthur Ray, Colin Batley, and Father Gary Thomas

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 18:16:06 +0000

[...] The argument seems to have convinced author and Boing Boing co-founder Cory Doctorow, who says “I’m convinced; we’re atheists and we will list ourselves as such.” There’s other campaigns going on as well, but I wanted to specifically mention the Jedi phenomenon, because I don’t think it just skewed atheist/agnostic numbers. I’ve long thought that those 400,000 “Jedi” also comprised a fair number of modern Pagans as well. In any case, this may be our last chance to get this right, because the UK is seriously considering removing the religion question entirely, with a spokesperson lumping Pagans in with the Jedi as “prank” responses. [...]

By: The Wild Hunt » Quick Updates on Recent Stories

The Wild Hunt » Quick Updates on Recent Stories — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:09:24 +0000

[...] Syracuse Pagan College Chaplain: Student paper The Daily Orange follows up on the appointment of Mary Hudson as Syracuse University’s first Pagan chaplain. While Hudson says that she’s only received positive feedback, reporter Rebecca Kheel finds a [...]

By: Ananta Androscoggin

Ananta Androscoggin — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 01:02:02 +0000

I much prefer Athena's first birth from the earlier mythology, before it was re-written to make her into the patriarchy's ideal "daddy's girl."

By: Crystal7431

Crystal7431 — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:14:32 +0000

Congratulations to Syracuse. A couple years back my local university made national news by allowing students time off for Pagan holidays. That was a cool first.

By: Robin Artisson

Robin Artisson — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:41:50 +0000

Well, how do the Danes intend to prove that they knew what people were thinking?

By: Ananta Androscoggin

Ananta Androscoggin — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:15:49 +0000

or from a little bit earlier on the year-o-meter, The Earth was made from one-half of the body of Tiamat, and The Sky from the other half.

By: Tea

Tea — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:12:55 +0000

Good thoughts. LOL@the Grand Canyon bit.