Re: (Back-Talk) Kathy Lee Gifford

On Jul 1, 4:51=A0pm, "sarchasm" <sar.ch...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "Noinden" <thear...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > "aine" <aine_nicne...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > > "Noinden" <thear...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > > "ren" <ren1...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > > Where does she get-off calling us Pagans bad and nasty when she is
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the
> > > > one who runs a Honduran child slave-labor camp.
> >.
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> > > It was not directed at Neopagans, as anyone who watched the video
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> > > can see. It was not that funny either.
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> > I do not agree. I hardly ever read or hear the term "Neo" pagan by
> > anyone including pagans except by Neo Druids.
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> Maybe neochristians are now calling anyone who isn't neochristian a
> neopagan, eh?
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> > Neopaganism is the accepted term, it has been since Uncle Gerry
> > onwards.
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> Accepted by whom, those who use the term to identify others?
=A0Academica=
lly?
> By the neopagans themselves, (or mainly just Bonewits)?
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> > It is not my fault that people in the scene get lazy about it
> > (or delusional).
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> If neochristians can call themselves christian, there's no reason
> non-christians cannot call themselves whatever they like. =A0Whether or
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> they are what the call themselves is a whole 'nother kettle of electric
> eels.<
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> > Similarly as I have pointed out the accepted usage of
> > the word (since the middle ages forward) is more likely what she was
> > talking about than Neopagans, or Paleopagans.
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> That still means she was being disparaging of non-christians. =A0Whether
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or
> not any pagans were disparaged by her remarks is up to them,
individually
> isn't it? =A0Some take offense, some do not. =A0One could wonder if
Kathy=
 Lee
> would take offense at being termed as a 'nasty neochristian'.

hehehehe...funny. Nice points Sar.