tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1111542293355322668.post1681854279505235611..comments2024-03-26T21:23:37.253-04:00Comments on Living Liminally: Racism and Cultural AppropriationUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1111542293355322668.post-12116225674795709072014-04-07T10:01:25.749-04:002014-04-07T10:01:25.749-04:00I've always been a bit perplexed by folks who ...I've always been a bit perplexed by folks who say you can't talk to a diety if you don't have the right pedigree. Given their power, I would have thought that the gods could talk to whoever they wantAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1111542293355322668.post-81127322688062612862013-11-01T17:58:18.109-04:002013-11-01T17:58:18.109-04:00Thanks so much for this. I almost gave up with hea...Thanks so much for this. I almost gave up with heathenry because I felt excluded because I'm not of Norse descendant. Also, I want a religion I can talk with my friends without regard of their origin or color. Gods calls whatever they want to, Black's, Asiatic, Latinos (like me), and nobody is whom to said me I can't or my friends can't. European history shows a very mixed origin,Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1111542293355322668.post-24710749950574663172013-09-04T15:40:44.981-04:002013-09-04T15:40:44.981-04:00THANK YOU!
I've run into the former in the sa...THANK YOU!<br /><br />I've run into the former in the same way, having this one or that one attempt to dictate to me which part of my ancestry I can or can't venerate or incorporate into daily life and practice. It particularly boggles my mind when I hear a proponent of this thinking insist that intermarriage never happened in all of history, and that mixed offspring (or their mothers) Snoozepossumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10442093787287264272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1111542293355322668.post-75092197424775872642013-08-30T17:56:02.696-04:002013-08-30T17:56:02.696-04:00In many ways those of us who practice the Classica...In many ways those of us who practice the Classical religions, the ancient Khemetic religion, or any of the other of the world's polytheistic religions are luckier in that our festivals were not appropriated for the synthetic religion of Wicca (I do not mean synthetic in a bad way here) , which has since morphed into a strange sort of weird "New Age" something which is very hard to Julia Erganehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04613625453621934834noreply@blogger.com