neowiccan ([info]neowiccan) wrote,
@ 2009-06-04 22:40:00
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Current mood: contemplative

international pagan values blogging month
not a bandwagon i'm gonna be jumping on.
i'm a pagan and i have values, but the values themselves are not intrinsically pagan. they're human values.
i hate it when christians start yawping about how our country was formed on 'christian values' and when asked what they are talk about values that are mine as much as theirs.
it seems hypocrital to me to try and claim the values important to me.....honesty, piety, arete, family and community for example.......as 'pagan.' i know too many non-pagans who share them wholeheartedly.
khairete
suz


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(Anonymous)
2009-06-07 06:37 am UTC (link)
I heard a thought for the day slot on the radio by an official in the Salvation Army (do you have that over there?) Anyway he was saying that science has given us a framework around which we can understand the physical world and how we fit & act within it and that religion does the same for the spiritual/emotional/ethical side of life. I was shouting at the radio that that is philosophy as its quite possible to have ethics & values without following any religion. I quite agree that claiming values only apply to members of a particular religion do nothing to encourage mutual respect between members of those religions. Better to stress the importance of thinking about and evaluating honestly the impact of how you behave on yourself & the world around you in order to establish worthwhile values rather than mindlessly going with the flow for the sake of conveience. Wx

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