[Avodah] Don't Blow Out the Candles and Make a Wish

[Prof. Levine]

At 05:38 PM 10/9/2007, Saul Mashbaum wrote:

>Doesn't the concept than a pagan may nullify his AZ have relevance 
>here? The various "gods" of the Greek pantheon have been rejected 
>for thousands of years, and the whole religion is terminally 
>disfuctional. Do its practices have the status of AZ for us now? I suspect not.


The following is from another article in the Fall 2007 Journal of 
Halacha and Contemporary Society, "Contemporary Wedding Trend or Pagan Rite?"

"Although modern-day pagans comprise only a slight minority of 
contemporary maypole-celebrants, their numbers are quite large. 
According to a study in 1997, there are about one million practicing 
neopagans worldwide today. [17] The majority of them practice some 
reconstructionist form of European pre-Christian paganism, ...."

17. See "Covenant of the Goddess," at www.cog.org

The above site contains a link to 
http://www.us.paganfederation.org/  the Pagan Federation 
International. There are links there to other sites also. So, it does 
not seem that "the whole religion is terminally dysfunctional."



Yitzchok Levine 
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