just because a langauge is not spoken in public useage in schools, librarys, newspaper periodicles, doesnt mean teh language isnt spoken in particuly the older generations, in house to family, to frineds, in front of the fire, where their dialect stays teh same. However dialecyts can change, come and go in a language, and it's still viable, as proved by teh queens english, yorkshire, liverpuddlion, brummy, all of which is the same british language, just spoken differntly. so it matters little if at the end of the day thye are speaking textbook french or a dialect french, as long as they all understand each other the meanings are the same.
there is only one religus truth, how you live and how you die. and the rest is up for interpretation.
druids arent extinct...my mother is classed as a druidess, theres a number of druid orders which she isnt a member of and as for iconic figures in modern paganism try mentioning the names alister crowly, alexander sanders and many other such stalwarts of the new pagan order and you will find that they are idolised as saints and great people of the day. we create our own saints, and always have done. Because gods real saints are just getting on with it.
Who's vertion of christianty, christs vertion, the diciples vertion, the vaticans vertion or our own unique english vertion...what would continue would be the next generations vertion, full of all it's faith and flaws and richesness that it's always had.
i dont follow anyones established line, just like the tree's dont, the animals dont and teh winds dont, no one directs me, but me, and i talk directly to my gods, not through someone who's apointed themselves too. And if you dont want to count that as paganism, then you can go and argue that out with all the people who have persecuted those of uswho have not toed the line since time began.
Of course you carnt go jumping at your roman antagonisers in your class, shaking and threatening to punch them....oh wait you werent at the last wednesdays broadsword class i teach where someone who's clearly roman sparked my celtic blood off enough to teh point i crushed him into teh floor and walked out so that i didnt kill him. Of course celtic, roman feuds are long buried beneath euro goths.
Everything is ment to evolve, if we were meant to stay stagnent the dinosaurs would still be discussing this.
Christianty is more robust, only because it kills other belifs. Strangely enought i dont need to live in the woods all my lifes, which by teh way have only been planeted recently to be able to know which direction teh wind is blowing from, where teh sun rises and sets and when teh tide is coming in and out. if i wanted to sit on my arse all day, on my sofa, reading a book, i could still know that because the weather man told me. and should i choose to communicate with any of the deitys, which i may or may not belive exist, i dont actually need to wander down to a huge manmade eddifice, called a church, to be able to hear their response, dont you have a garden ?
"address your own faith first"
thats the point, we dont need to rely on anybody else, whos drawing a salary, to remind us that teh sun comes up every morning and teh moon comes up afterwards. likewise theres no well payed religous fanatic telling us we are going to hell, yet we still do the right thing on this planet, which includes not putting others down.
are you trying to say the ancient warrior who became a berserker hadnt had supper the night before or breakfast. maybe you should try going out and finding a coause thats worth fighting for, and see how hard it is to become a berserker while defending innocents even tho youve had a breakfast. It does useually help. maybe youve never faced down shotgun weilding thugs who were killing rabbits, maybe youve never been in the depths of your own territory, run by shotgun weilding thugs and have to survive, mabe if you did youd find how easy it is to become a berserker, no matter what your faith is. *snip*
to each his own
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