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THE QUESTION
Pagans
This July 4, Pagans rallied outside the White House. They want the military to add a Pagan chaplain. Should they get one? Would you vote for a Pagan for public office?
Posted by
Sally Quinn and Jon Meacham on July 4, 2007 6:38 AM
FROM THE PANEL
Pagan Chaplains and Public Servants
Supporting a Pagan’s right to freedom of worship is one of the best things Christians can do to safeguard their own freedom.
Posted by Starhawk, on July 10, 2007 9:31 AM
America: Memory, Loyalty, Liberty
II would vote for a Pagan, although Paganism is un-American.
Posted by Willis E. Elliott, on July 10, 2007 8:50 AM
Issues not Identity; Numbers not Validity
Religion, really, has nothing to do with it.
Posted by Pamela K. Taylor, on July 10, 2007 7:35 AM
Define 'Pagan'
Some who read this blog will bring images of godless hedonists who worship nothing or, worse, come close to worshipping satan.
Posted by Bob Edgar, on July 9, 2007 9:57 AM
A Chaplain for Every Soul
Sure I’d vote for a Pagan (I think I probably already have, quite often), but I don’t think there should be a Pagan chaplain. There are two different issues here, complicated by the fact that there are two very different...
Posted by Wendy Doniger, on July 9, 2007 8:10 AM
Give Me Those Old-Time Religions!
Here is another argument in favor of atheism, as opposed to either polytheistic or monotheistic religion. Atheism costs the taxpayers nothing.
Posted by Susan Jacoby, on July 9, 2007 7:57 AM
Theory vs. Reality
I wonder about a person's judgment if he, or she, has embraced paganism.
Posted by Cal Thomas, on July 9, 2007 6:33 AM
Pagans
To the second question: would I vote for a pagan? [I doubt if one will rise to candidacy for president, but as for other offices:' Would I vote for a pagan? I probably already have. They come in many informal...
Posted by Martin Marty, on July 8, 2007 3:34 PM
Pagans as Patriots: Freedom vs. Prejudice
It has been my personal experience that conservative Christianity in particular regards all women, regardless of their faith, as vaguely Pagan.
Posted by Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, on July 6, 2007 11:23 AM
Counseling Chaplains and Earth Ritual Enactments
Are these modern day shamans up to the professionalism required of today’s chaplains?
Posted by Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo, on July 6, 2007 10:06 AM
Skim Milk or Cream?
The differences between pagan and Christian practice are not and perhaps have never been as great as some would have it.
Posted by Kathleen Flake, on July 6, 2007 9:06 AM
Paganism May Not Pass Religious Muster
I would have great difficulty supporting an explicit Wiccan or pagan for high public office.
Posted by Charles "Chuck" Colson, on July 5, 2007 10:36 AM
Equal Rights, but not Equally Fit
Pagan rights can be a subject of dispute only when the state and society are not in sync with respect to the standing of the Pagans as members of society and to the public acknowledgment of their status as fellow...
Posted by Sulayman Nyang, on July 5, 2007 7:11 AM
FEATURED COMMENTS
PriveR: I must say for me it was a conscious choice to leave the Judaism I was born into.. but there was no one person that 'talked' me into Paganis...
sylvia lara-marechal: as a humanist i personally cannot see a reason to deny another the right for spiritual comfort as an atheist i ask why?
but as as one genera...
Mary: I am a Pagan, I am not insulted by an Agnostic or an Atheist. The ones I have met are fairly idealistic and want to make a better world. I...
