What’s up with this crap?

Here we go again. Pagans deciding who’s Pagan enough.

Now you have to be an enviromentalist vegetarian to be a Pagan. And don’t use anything but all natural laundry soap.

What the fuck?! These Fundie Pagans are really starting to annoy me. I agree that we shouldn’t all be going around in huge gas-hogging SUVs just because the neighbor drives one. But I think there are really limits to this crap.

I try to think that Pagans are different than mainstream. That they know the gods gave them brains for reasons. But then these little high school cliques start forming and it’s “Every Pagan should be exactly like me!” And there are those lock-in-steppers that do exactly what they’re told and don’t contribute anything at all to the Pagan community.

I’m not the most ecologically sound person on Earth. You’d cry if you saw the amount of trash that comes out of my house every week. But that doesn’t take away my Paganhood. That just makes me an average American. I don’t bother to recycle because in our area the recycling goes right to the landfill-pink plastic bags and all. What’s the point?

I don’t eat all organic foods because I can’t afford them. In the summer we grow our own vegetables, but not enough for the whole year. We live in town and there’s just not enough room. Am I supposed to go without fruits and vegetables all year because I can’t afford the “all organic” crap? Also, a lot of that isn’t so organic. The rules for labeling are very lax. You don’t know what’s going into the ground as fertilizer, do you?

I eat meat and lots of it. Beef, pork, fish, and chicken. Why? Because I need the protein and so does the rest of my family. Do I feel bad for the animals that I eat? Sure. But not bad enough to quit eating them. We’re lucky in this country to be able to eat meat on a regular basis. Try going to a third world country and getting more than beans for protein. Well, try getting anything at that we here would call food. I’m not going to put the chicken farmers out of business. I’d grow my own, but there’s not enough room. Oh! And we’re not allowed to have farm animals in town.

I wear leather shoes. I eat the cow so I might as well put the hide to some good use. Even the Native Americans wore leather. Nothing wrong with that. Don’t like Nike, though. Just ’cause.

I use regular laundry soap because it works and I can’t afford the other stuff. I don’t know how to make my own either. I’m just thankful that I don’t have to beat my clothes against a rock. Or wash them out in the sink. If we had to do that I don’t think there’d be too many women in the work force. They’d be too busy doing laundry all day everyday.

I don’t like that we’re losing so many trees. I hate to see a tree cut down. Especially if it’s just for aesthetic purposes. “I had too many leaves in the backyard” is a bad reason to evict the birds and squirrels (and whatever else) that lived in that tree. I am a proud tree hugger. Without them we would have to live in a bubble.

So, back to the matter at hand. Why are so many Pagans becoming fundies? I think that it’s because various Pagan religions (particulary Wicca) are becoming well known. That brings with it the teenagers who like to experiment with various things and those teenagers eventually become adults. But they fail to recognize one key trait of many old-timers–acceptance. As long as they’re aren’t insane then let the gods deal with them. We don’t have any clue as to what’s right and what’s wrong. Only after death will we know.

It’s funny how a lot of Pagans won’t eat a chicken. But they’ll have an abortion. Which is worse?

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