Guest Post: Marcel says Polytheist has fewer Preconceived Notions

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I’m a Gaelic Polytheist – I haven’t identified as a Pagan in so long that I’m not sure when the last time I did so actually was.

There were a couple of primary reasons for this

1. there’s far too much confusion, misinformation, and disinformation, out there regarding what a Pagan is and what a Pagan believes. There are, for example, different sects of mainstream monotheism but they all have the same God…. modern or neo-Paganism doesn’t share this and I got tired of having to explain why that is.
2. modern or neo-Paganism has become almost synonymous with Wicca, I am not Wiccan, and got tired of explaining that.

When I tell people I am a Gaelic Polytheist, and if they ask for more, I have a blank starting point as most people have no preconceived, movie clouded, potentially rhetoric laden, notion of what that is.

I choose not to gather much with the larger Pagan community who follow different paths as, while I am not adverse to a discussion on those paths and how they may relate to mine, I am adverse to conversion attempts and I see more and more of that happening.