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<font size=3>At 05:38 PM 10/9/2007, Saul Mashbaum wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">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.</font></blockquote><br><br>
The following is from another article in the Fall 2007 Journal of Halacha
and Contemporary Society, "Contemporary Wedding Trend or Pagan
Rite?" <br><br>
"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,
...."<br><br>
17. See "Covenant of the Goddess," at
<a href="http://www.cog.org/" eudora="autourl">www.cog.org</a> <br><br>
The above site contains a link to
<a href="http://www.us.paganfederation.org/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.us.paganfederation.org/</a> the Pagan Federation
International. There are links there to other sites also. So, it does not
seem that "the whole religion is terminally dysfunctional."
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<font size=3>Yitzchok Levine</font></body>
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